Carolyn Kennett
Archaeoastronomer, writer and historian who studies the relationship between Dartmoor's prehistoric stone circles and stone rows and the sky above them, including joint research and talks with Dartmoor archaeologist Alan Endacott.
Archaeoastronomer, writer and historian who studies the relationship between Dartmoor's prehistoric stone circles and stone rows and the sky above them, including joint research and talks with Dartmoor archaeologist Alan Endacott.
A wayside cross, 1.4 m high, near the summit of Hameldown Tor, moved in 1854 to mark the boundary of Natsworthy Manor and cut HC DS 1854.
Two granite outcrops on Corn Ridge said to be the bread and cheese of Bishop Bronescombe, turned to stone when the stranger who offered them was seen to have a cloven hoof.
Lydford
The highest of the Sharp Tors, a granite tor of 519 m on the north moor that moormen call Lydford Sharp, with views over North Devon and Cornwall.
Exeter
Exeter bookseller and publisher (1856-1914) of 230 High Street, Mayor of Exeter in 1908, who published Devon Notes and Queries, the 1896 Perambulation of Dartmoor and Eva C. Rogers's The Magic Mist.
The Grade I listed parish church at Shaugh Prior: a 15th-century church in stone rubble and granite with a tall three-stage granite tower.
Belstone
The underground water works built in the late 1950s to take radon out of Taw Marsh water: a concrete building with skylights, sold or offered for sale in 2014, 2018 and 2023.
North Bovey, Newton Abbot
Established in 2021, Langaford Farm Trust conserves a 100 acre Dartmoor farm near Lettaford on Dartmoor's North Eastern rim: a mix of pastures, woodland and wetland, renowned for its conservation of the Marsh fritillary butterfly.
Peter Tavy, Tavistock
A small, ruined tor of metamorphic rock on Arthur Hill about 300 m north of the Langstone menhir, not the conical Hare Tor on the Willsworthy range.
In the West Okement River. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“You caan't fill un even now in the drouth, an' come autumn an' rain 't will all be bog again.”
Also on Our DartmoorCairn on the south-west slope of Penn Beacon — An irregular turf-covered cairn 11 m across and up to 0.5 m high, one of several on the south-west slope of Penn Beacon.