Buckfastleigh
Benedictine monk (1898-1996) and beekeeper at Buckfast Abbey, who bred the Buckfast bee and set up an isolated mating station on Dartmoor in 1925.
Princetown
MP and Duchy of Cornwall official (1762-1833) who built Tor Royal and pushed for Princetown, Dartmoor Prison and the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway.
Exeter
Archaeologist (1907-2005) who excavated the Round Pound at Kestor in 1951-52 and published the results in 1955.
Belstone
Remains of a cairn circle near Irishman's Wall above Belstone, picked up by Alan Endacott's geophysical survey. Six stones are visible and more are indicated below ground.
Belstone
Collapsed dolmen near Irishman's Wall above Belstone, found by Alan Endacott and named in tribute to Dartmoor people who died in the world wars.
Belstone
Oval stone circle on Taw Marsh below Metheral Hill, near Belstone. Alan Endacott found it during his PhD fieldwork and it was announced in November 2024. About 20 stones survive, most of them fallen.
Plymouth
Plymouth fertiliser manufacturer and antiquarian (1848-1920), first secretary of the Dartmoor Preservation Association and a leading member of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, credited with overseeing the 1909 restoration of the Grey Wethers circles.
Plymouth
Plymouth civil engineer and geologist (1868-1950), secretary of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee and author of the Devonshire Association's stone rows series. The son of Richard Nicholls Worth.
Christow
Royal Navy officer (1757-1833) who led the 1816 bombardment of Algiers and bought the Canonteign estate on Dartmoor's eastern edge in 1812. He is buried at Christow.
