Cairnfields on White Hill
Peter Tavy, Tavistock
Two Bronze Age cairnfields on White Hill: a western-slope field of about 26 mounds above Lydford and a northern-slope field of at least 22 above the Walla Brook, in six scheduled monuments.
Peter Tavy, Tavistock
Two Bronze Age cairnfields on White Hill: a western-slope field of about 26 mounds above Lydford and a northern-slope field of at least 22 above the Walla Brook, in six scheduled monuments.
Peter Tavy, Tavistock
Eight scheduled monuments of a Bronze Age round cairn cemetery on White Hill, near the summit and on the slope above Willsworthy: ring cairns and round cairns, some dug by Baring-Gould in 1888.
Walkhampton, Yelverton
A large unenclosed Bronze Age hut circle settlement on the west-facing slope below Hart Tor, between Devil's Bridge and the tor, above the River Meavy.
Okehampton Hamlets, Okehampton
A Bronze Age cairnfield of at least 64 mounds in 26 scheduled monuments on the ridge and slopes of Longstone Hill, above the West Okement River.
Cadover, Shaugh Prior
Stone road bridge over the River Plym on Dartmoor's south-west edge, with a free National Trust car park and the usual start for walks to Trowlesworthy Tor.
Lee Moor, Shaugh Prior
China clay pits above the Plym valley, worked since the 1820s-30s: the 1858 tramway, an old mine leat, and works such as Whitehill Yeo and Cholwichtown.
Trowlesworthy, Shaugh Prior
Early 19th-century farmhouse on Trowlesworthy Warren, also known as the Warren House: a private farm on National Trust land and the opening scene of The Three Brothers.
Four scheduled monuments on the slopes of Cox Tor: two cairnfields, part of the Whitchurch Common coaxial field system and a reave later used by troops.
Six cairns in five scheduled monuments on Cox Tor: two tor cairns, two round cairns and two ring cairns of a cairn cemetery, with a summit hut circle.
Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 236, 1900“At a hamlet near the parish of South Tawton, a small town on the borders of Dartmoor, there is an interesting story told of a ghost which assumes the form of a remarkably handsome Guernsey Cow, and appears at midnight promenading to and fro”
Also on Our DartmoorLower Jurston Farmhouse Including Garden Walls to South — A grade II* listed farmhouse with surviving garden walls, likely medieval or early modern in origin, standing on Dartmoor's slopes.