A grade II* listed building with roots in Dartmoor's parish life, comprising a main house and detached rear structure of likely medieval or early modern origin.
“Even the half-wild cattle which range the other parts of the moor at pleasure, seem to shun the swampy steppes of the central wilderness.”
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Whitchurch, Tavistock
Grade I granite church at Whitchurch with a Norman south door, a chancel of about 1300 and a 15th-century tower, nave and north aisle.
A small hut circle 2.3 m across inside with a wall 1.6 m wide and a doorway to the south-south-west, at the south-east edge of the North Hessary Tor settlement, 7 m from the Walkhampton Common reave.
A hut circle 10 m across inside with walls 2 m thick and 1 m high and a probable north entrance, south of the Penn Moor settlement above Ford Brook.
Bronze Age settlement with stone hut circle, cairns and field boundaries on the open moor south of Sourton Tors.
A setting of fourteen stones up to 0.55 m high in a ring 4 m across, probably the kerb of a vanished cairn, made of quartz-schorl rather than granite.
Bronze Age cairnfield on Homerton Hill with ten stone cairns and a length of bank, a scheduled monument on open moorland.
Ten huts at Watern Oke, six round, three oval and one two-roomed, dug in 1905 and yielding charcoal, cooking stones, sling and rubbing stones, pottery and flint.
Prehistoric field boundaries and later settlements on the high moor between Shovel Down and Long Ridge.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“The numerous blocks of granite which appear to be split asunder by some violent action, are said by the moormen to have been riven in that manner by the earthquake which occurred at our Saviour's crucifixion.”
Also on Our DartmoorAish Tor — Aish Tor is a small, flat tor near Brake Corner with a cairn on its summit and views down the River Dart valley.
