Our Dartmoor Directory

Druid Mine Engine House

Ruined engine house from Dartmoor's tin-mining past, standing solitary on the open moor.

Beehive Hut

Leighon, Bovey Tracey

A Bronze Age shelter huddled on the open moor, its stone walls still standing after thousands of years of Dartmoor weather.

American and French Prisoners of War memorial garden

Princetown, Tavistock

A quiet memorial to American and French prisoners of war held on Dartmoor during the Napoleonic Wars and later conflicts.

Llanford Danish vs Saxon War

Lydford, Tavistock

A stark memorial on open moorland marking a long-forgotten clash between Danish and Saxon forces.

Gutter Tor

Sheepstor, Yelverton

A granite tor of three main outcrops above Ditsworthy Warren in the Plym valley, beside the Scout hut car park, with a large rock basin on top and an Ordnance Survey trig pillar further up the hill.

Stalldown Row

Yadsworthy, Ivybridge

A Bronze Age stone row stretching across open moorland, its weathered granite markers still aligned after thousands of years.

Buckland Abbey

Milton Combe, Tavistock

A Cistercian abbey founded in 1278, turned into a house by the Grenvilles and bought by Sir Francis Drake in 1581. Now National Trust, near Yelverton.

Whiteworks

A scatter of dwellings and mine remains near Fox Tor Mire, named for the White Works mine, where Crossing remembered two big waterwheels turning and the blacksmith's hammer ringing.

Childe's Tomb

A granite cross over a kistvaen on the edge of Fox Tor Mires, rebuilt in 1890 and tied to the legend of Childe the Hunter.