Petre's Cross
South Brent
A wayside cross set upside down on Western White Barrow, one of four crosses raised by Sir William Petre to mark the Forest bounds in the 16th century.
South Brent
A wayside cross set upside down on Western White Barrow, one of four crosses raised by Sir William Petre to mark the Forest bounds in the 16th century.
South Brent
The site of a demolished Victorian mansion beside the River Avon, once a 17th-century farmstead, a hunt master's lodge and a youth hostel; blown up in 1968.
Yelverton
The open common between Yelverton and Plymouth crossed by the A386, with Drake's Leat, Roborough Camp and the old airfield of RAF Harrowbeer.
Throwleigh
A tributary of the Teign that rises at Raybarrow Pool below Cosdon and runs past Shilley Pool and Throwleigh to Gidleigh Chase.
Which Dartmoor place has also been known as "Lookout Tor and Tor Royal"?
Okehampton
A stream that rises between Row Tor and West Mill Tor, runs past Okehampton Camp through wooded Halstock Cleave and joins the East Okement.
Peter Tavy
A stone bridge over the Tavy carrying the lane between Willsworthy and Cudlipptown, with a weir below it; Bray called it a most delightful scene.
Holne
A half-mile ridge of slabbed granite outcrops on a spur above the Dart gorge, reached from Venford Reservoir.
Postbridge
Dartmoor's biggest tin mining complex: two mines either side of the Redwater valley, worked together from 1845 until 1882 and again to 1913.
Postbridge
The last tin mine worked on Dartmoor, beside the Redwater Brook; the waste heaps were still being worked until it closed on 12 November 1930.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Little doth that old man know my name is Vickeytoad.”
Also on Our DartmoorRough Tor — Rough Tor, 547 m, north of Two Bridges on central Dartmoor, inside the Merrivale firing range, its summit carrying military huts and poles.