Moretonhampstead
Grade I listed medieval parish church in Moretonhampstead centre, notable for its early fifteenth-century tower and traditional Devon wagon roof.
“The rain stopped suddenly, and the wind was hushed, except in the tops of invisible trees; and a streak of black boggy fog settled heavily.”
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Belstone
Prehistoric moorland settlement at the foot of White Hill near Belstone, remarkably remote even for Dartmoor.
Mary Tavy
A brook with historical ties, near a tinners' cache and old workings.
Okehampton
A distinctive corner on Dartmoor, marked by a prominent rock formation and a historic track nearby.
Princetown
Ruins of a moorland farmhouse built around 1871 by John Hooper near Nun's Cross, south of Princetown.
Princetown
A historic watercourse that once supplied Plymouth, running from Dartmoor's high ground to Burrator Reservoir.
Princetown
A remote farmstead south of Princetown: first built after an 1870 Duchy lease to John Hooper, rebuilt as the present house in 1901, now a school-run bunkhouse.
A historic wall built by Irish men around 1820, stretching from Cullever Steps across Belstone Tor.
A high-altitude oak woodland beneath Black Tor, with lichens and mosses carpeting the ground.
Childes tomb. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“In Peter Tavy, too, may be seen " the spinners and knitters in the sun ; " and the very old and the very young are often seen together side by side ; and girls with their pitchers filling them with water from the little channels and rivulets that abound throughout the village. These present ...”
Also on Our DartmoorThe Lost Rainforests of Britain — Guy Shrubsole's Sunday Times bestselling account of Britain's surviving temperate rainforests, hidden along its wetter, western fringes.
