Okehampton Hamlets, Okehampton
The only timber-framed artillery observation post on the Okehampton Range, banked with earth and turf above Curtery Clitters. Complete, but boarded up.
Okehampton Hamlets, Okehampton
The best-known observation post on the Okehampton Range: a stone-walled, earth-covered shelter at the southern end of the old Circular Road on Okement Hill.
“There was nobody to see him; all the brown moor was void with loneliness and lassitude; not a shadow, except his own, moved faster than the sun directed it.”
Who wrote this?
Okehampton Hamlets, Okehampton
The only observation post on the Okehampton Range still in regular use: built in 1923-24 for officers under instruction, beside the car park near East Okement Farm.
Okehampton Hamlets, Okehampton
The army's northern artillery range on Dartmoor, used since 1873: the biggest set of military buildings and earthworks left on the moor, with 22 numbered observation posts.
Dartmoor Forest, Tavistock
Thirteen pillow mounds in eight scheduled monuments of Merrivale Warren, on the lower slopes of Over Tor above the River Walkham, with a military training pit.
Dartmoor Forest, Tavistock
Eight scheduled monuments east of Merrivale Bridge: a large partially enclosed Bronze Age hut circle settlement of at least 36 huts, its outlying huts and enclosure, and two isolated huts on Longash Common.
Walkhampton, Yelverton
Ten scheduled monuments on Sharpitor, above Burrator: a large unenclosed Bronze Age hut circle settlement on the north-east slope, with enclosures, a field system and a reave.
Walkhampton, Yelverton
Five scheduled monuments on Sharpitor: round cairns north-west and north-east of the summit, three with a cist, including a group of four closely spaced cairns.
Walkhampton, Yelverton
Two scheduled stone alignments near Sharpitor: a double row and a single row with a round cairn north-west of the tor, and a short double row between Sharpitor and Leeden Tor.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“The narrow vale of the Teign seen from this spot, thus enveloped in shade, seems to sink deeper down into gloom and pleasing mystery.”
Also on Our DartmoorSir Thomas Tyrwhitt — MP and Duchy of Cornwall official (1762-1833) who built Tor Royal and pushed for Princetown, Dartmoor Prison and the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway.
