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Three Boys
Standing Stones & Menhirs

Three Boys

Teignworthy, Chagford

Three granite pillars at the end of a stone avenue near Fernworthy, mostly removed about 1816 to build walls and gateposts; one still stands, five feet high.

Grey Wethers
Stone Circles

Grey Wethers

Two close, incomplete stone circles near Sittaford Tor, named for their likeness to a flock of sheep, with the route Crossing gives and the 1901 story.

Kes Tor Round Pound
Prehistoric Settlements

Kes Tor Round Pound

A Bronze Age settlement of stone-built roundhouses huddled on the open moor, their circular walls still legible after thousands of years.

Statts House
Historic Buildings

Statts House

Chagford

Crumbling stone foundations scattered across open moorland, marking where a longhouse once sheltered livestock and people on Dartmoor's windswept slopes.

Dartmoor quiz

What is the earliest known name for the Walla Brook near Wallabrook Clapper Bridge?

Wotesbrokelakesfote. The name goes back to the 1240 perambulation of the Forest, which has it as Wotesbrokelakesfote; the Place-Name Society reads the first part as a personal name.

Worth a visit
Industrial Archaeology

Blowing House

Ruined tin smelting works tucked into Dartmoor's moorland, where 18th-century industry shaped the landscape.

Dartmoor Illustrated, page 70Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 70, 1900

“He listened, and distinctly heard one, in a louder tone than the rest, exclaim, "The oven's hot!" "Bake me a cake, then," instantly cried the hungry ploughman.”

Also on Our DartmoorEastern cairn with a cist, Langcombe Brook — A cairn 5 m across and 0.2 m high with a square cist 1 m by 1 m, all its end and side slabs in place, on a west slope between the Langcombe Brook and Deadman's Bottom.