Throwleigh Common coaxial field system
Most of the Throwleigh Common coaxial field system, with six settlements including at least 27 hut circles, a reave, at least 27 cairns, part of the 19 km Bradford Leat and two boundary stones.
Most of the Throwleigh Common coaxial field system, with six settlements including at least 27 hut circles, a reave, at least 27 cairns, part of the 19 km Bradford Leat and two boundary stones.
Scheduled Monument farmstead south of Crazy Well Pool, likely medieval or later, on the open moor.
A Grade II* listed farmhouse, long abandoned, standing on the open moor near Flood with roots in medieval or early modern settlement.
A Grade II* listed dovecote standing near Pridhamsleigh Manor, built to house pigeons for a substantial Dartmoor estate.
A Grade II* listed farmstead on the edge of Dartmoor, with 16th-century origins and the solid character of moorland vernacular building.
The earthwork remains of a medieval settlement abandoned centuries ago, west of Okehampton camp on the moor.
A deserted medieval settlement of up to six buildings, at least two of them longhouses, on the lower north slopes of Black Down.
A deserted medieval settlement of at least eight longhouses on the north-west slopes of East Hill above the West Okement.
Two joined enclosures and a building on a ridge above the West Okement, in the Okehampton Park cleared by Hugh de Courtenay about 1300; the tithe map marks it 'hospital'.
Hawthorn at Round Pound. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Pixies, too, hold a high place in the imaginations of Devonians. The villagers around Haldon and Dartmoor assert that these little people have their homes among the tors, and keep their houses spotlessly clean ; that they enjoy mad gallops at night on colts, making stirrups in their manes and ...”
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