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Whiddon Park Deer Park Wall Between Sx 723 889
Grid ref: SX 7218 8928
On walking routes: A Walk to the Hydro Turbine, Castle Drogo, Piddledown Common Walk, Castle Drogo, Teign Gorge Classic Circuit, Castle Drogo, Two Moors Way
This section of wall, running between two recorded points on the moor, formed part of the perimeter of Whiddon Park deer park. Such enclosed deer parks were status symbols for medieval and post-medieval landowners, requiring substantial investment in stone or timber boundaries to contain the animals and define estate lands.
The wall survives as a physical trace of how Dartmoor's landscape was managed and controlled in past centuries. Visitors walking this part of the moor will encounter a listed structure that marks the boundary between the working moorland and the private parkland that once lay beyond it, a reminder of Dartmoor's complex social and land-use history.
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