Princetown
A group of Dartmoor granite workings near Princetown, worked from the 1820s until 1938. Twelve unused granite corbels, cut in 1903-04 for the widening of London Bridge, still lie beside the old railway trackbed here.
Haytor Vale
Five disused granite quarries on the east side of Dartmoor, worked from around 1820 by George Templer. Stone from here built the old London Bridge, completed in 1831, and travelled to the coast via the Haytor Granite Tramway and Stover Canal.
“the country doctor, in hail, rain, snow, or storm, must turn out of a warm bed and ride, often to the dreary waste of Dartmoor, through rough roads and darkness, at the call of humanity,”
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Princetown
A horse-drawn granite tramway opened in 1823, running about 25 miles from the Foggintor and King's Tor quarries to a wharf near Plymouth. Its upper section was later reused by the steam-worked Princetown Railway from 1883.
Teigngrace
A canal built by James Templer, linking the Haytor Granite Tramway to the tidal River Teign at Teignmouth. Granite quarried at Haytor and Holwell travelled this route, including stone for the new London Bridge completed in 1831.
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Artist - Ecologist - Speaker
Moretonhampstead
The forge in Moretonhampstead was opened in the 1850’s by the Hill family and continued as a family business into the 1990’s when Greg Abel took it over, this traditional small village forge is now exclusively used for Blacksmithing training and experience days.
Author of Water from the Moor, a history of Plymouth's Dartmoor leats, and co-host with his son Simon of the Myths of the Moor podcast.
Chief Executive of the Dartmoor Preservation Association, leading its work on access, conservation and the Dartmoor Public Access Fund.
Devon folk singer and songwriter whose album Songs of Dartmoor is a musical tour of the moor, from ballads collected by Sabine Baring-Gould to modern compositions.
Hound tor - misty. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“It was already dusk; dark mist wreaths moved upon the Moor, and oncoming night winds sighed of rain.”
Also on Our DartmoorThe Ancient Book of Dumnonia — Second in the Ancient Book of Dumnonia series: the legends of Dartmoor's giants come to life as Briana and Ysabel trace their bloodlines. Rewrite of Christos and the Dartmoor Giants.
