Hexworthy, Ashburton
A Bronze Age hillfort on open moorland, its concentric rings still visible after thousands of years of wind and weather.
Lutton, Buckfastleigh
Scattered stones on open moorland mark the foundations of a medieval chapel, a solitary place of worship in Dartmoor's high country.
“Life has become like that great Grimpen Mire, with little green patches everywhere into which one may sink and with no guide to point the track.”
Who wrote this?
Bronze Age settlement remains tucked into Dartmoor's open moorland.
Walreddon, Tavistock
A striking stone viaduct spanning a moorland valley, built to carry the railway across Dartmoor's rugged terrain.
Bronze Age stone row stretching across open moorland, aligned with the rhythm of ancient ritual and celestial cycles.
A Bronze Age stone circle standing on open moorland, with weathered granite sentinels marking an ancient ritual landscape.
Haytor Vale
A tramway built by George Templer in 1820 to carry granite from the Haytor Quarries down to the Stover Canal at Ventiford, a fall of about 1,300 feet over roughly ten miles. Unusually, its rails were grooved granite setts rather than iron, cut and laid directly into the moor.
