Our Dartmoor Directory
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Historic Buildings
Vinneylake (ruins)
Sheepstor, Tavistock
Crumbling stone foundations scattered across open moorland, revealing traces of a lost settlement on Dartmoor's high ground.
Historic Buildings
Leather Tor Farm
Sheepstor, Tavistock
Weathered stone ruins of a moorland farm, slowly being reclaimed by Dartmoor's granite and heather.
Industrial Archaeology
Bal Mine
Remnants of tin mining activity on the open moor, where shallow workings scar the granite landscape.
Historic Buildings
Fingle Mill (est 1790)
Cranbrook, Moretonhampstead
Eighteenth-century mill ruins nestled in the wooded valleys of eastern Dartmoor, a testament to the moor's industrial past.
Attractions & Visitor Sites
Petre's Pit
Shipley Bridge, Buckfastleigh
A tin mine pit carved into Dartmoor's granite moorland, testament to centuries of mining that shaped this landscape.
Crosses
Granite Cross
A weathered granite cross standing alone on the open moor, its origins lost to time but its presence unmistakable.
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“What be you a-doin' to my 'at?" The man replied, "Be there now a chap under'n?" "Ees, I reckon," was the reply, "and a hoss under me likewise.”
Also on Our DartmoorCist above Langcombe Brook, west of Grim's Grave — A small cist, 0.72 m by 0.5 m and 0.3 m deep, aligned east to west and just standing above the ground, with no visible mound, above Langcombe Brook.
