Merrivale, Tavistock
A broadleaf wood along the River Walkham below Hucken Tor, near Merrivale, home to two little-known granite tors and recorded beetle specimens from a 2024 Dartmoor entomological survey.
Chudleigh
A limestone cave in Chudleigh Rock near Chudleigh, a Scheduled Monument since 1992, where 1970s excavations found a rare Late Upper Palaeolithic "living floor" of flint tools and animal bones beneath a stalagmite crust.
Roborough, Yelverton
A tor-like igneous outcrop on Roborough Down beside the A386, at the southern end of the former RAF Harrowbeer airfield, nicknamed the "Duke of Wellington's Nose" for its profile.
Berry Pomeroy, Totnes
A late 15th-century castle and Tudor mansion ruin near Totnes, built by the Pomeroy family and later extended by the Seymours, now cared for by English Heritage and celebrated for its ghost legends.
Tavy Cleave, Peter Tavy
The principal pile of the Tavy Cleave tors, a conical granite mass of 441 m with a steep, vertical east face above the River Tavy.
Archaeoastronomer, writer and historian who studies the relationship between Dartmoor's prehistoric stone circles and stone rows and the sky above them, including joint research and talks with Dartmoor archaeologist Alan Endacott.
Belstone, Okehampton
A stone-roofed holy well and a small granite cross beside it on East Hill above the West Okement, both listed Grade II.
Belstone, Okehampton
A Grade II spring head at Belstone of undressed granite blocks, terraced into the hillside, walled on three sides, roofed with a big slab and open to the north-east, where a natural spring still rises; perhaps medieval or earlier.
Challacombe, Chagford
A Grade II listed granite milestone about 500 mm high, probably early 19th century, cut 6 MILES FROM MORETON.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“'Way, these here pisgies be a makin' sich a rattle that I want put up wi't no more. I'll zee what they he up to; I can zee mun droo the 'all in the planchin'.”
Also on Our DartmoorA Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts — An American surgeon's 1816 journal of capture at sea in 1813 and confinement at Melville Island, at Chatham and last at Dartmoor Prison.
