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Western White Barrow
Grid ref: SX 6535 6548
On walking routes: Abbot's Way, Two Moors Way
Main image: Photo: Milestone Society, Wikimedia Commons
Western White Barrow lies on the southern part of Dartmoor near the Two Moors Way and Zeal Tramway track. Originally a Bronze Age cairn, most of its stones were taken by peat workers to build a hut. It offers great views in all directions, especially back towards Redlake and Green Hill, with Plymouth Sound visible on a clear day to the south west.
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Pony at Merrivale Stone Rows. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“The place is deprived of every thing that is pleasant or agreeable, and is productive of nothing but human woe and misery. Even riches, pleasant friends and liberty could not make it agreeable.”
Also on Our DartmoorSir Edwin Lutyens — British architect (1869-1944) who designed Castle Drogo for Julius Drewe, built 1911-1930 at about a third of his original plan.
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