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Takfield Mill (Medieval Blowing House - Remains)
Crumbling stone foundations of a medieval tin-smelting works, hidden among Dartmoor's high moorland.
Dartmoor quiz
“In the distance, down at the end of the combe, a pale blue mist overhung a morass, in which a little stream lost itself.”
Who wrote this?
Historic Buildings
Warrens
Two Bridges
Fragmentary stone ruins of a medieval warren-keeper's settlement scattered across open moorland.
Hillforts & Earthworks
Higher Bury Camp
Iron Age hillfort whose ramparts still command the open moorland above the West Dart River valley.
Crosses
Pixies Cross
A waymarked stone cross standing on open moorland, marking ancient routes across Dartmoor's high ground.
Cairns & Barrows
Giant's Grace (Cairns)
Bronze Age cairns scattered across open moorland, their stones weathered by millennia of Dartmoor wind and rain.
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Blowing House beside the River Meavy. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“There was nobody to see him; all the brown moor was void with loneliness and lassitude; not a shadow, except his own, moved faster than the sun directed it.”
Also on Our DartmoorMilestone, SX 512 752 — A modest stone milestone marking distance and route on the open moor, typical of Dartmoor's network of travelling aids.
