Our Dartmoor Directory

Western White Barrow

A Bronze Age cairn turned peat workers' hut, with a clear view to Plymouth Sound on a good day.

Okehampton Artillery Range: Observation Post 6

Remains of a First World War artillery training installation on the northern moor, with observation post and experimental target carrier system.

Okehampton Artillery Range: Linear, F Range

Scheduled Monument remains of target railways built for the Okehampton Artillery Range on F Range, Dartmoor.

Meldon viaduct

A Victorian railway viaduct crossing the moorland landscape near Okehampton, built to carry the railway into Dartmoor.

Lustleigh Parish Council

Lustleigh, Newton Abbot

The parish council for Lustleigh, one of Dartmoor's prettiest villages, in the Wrey Valley.

Haytor Granite Tramway

Haytor Vale

A tramway built by George Templer in 1820 to carry granite from the Haytor Quarries down to the Stover Canal at Ventiford, a fall of about 1,300 feet over roughly ten miles. Unusually, its rails were grooved granite setts rather than iron, cut and laid directly into the moor.

Shillamill Viaduct

Walreddon, Tavistock

A striking stone viaduct spanning a moorland valley, built to carry the railway across Dartmoor's rugged terrain.

Shaptor View

Brimley, Bovey Tracey

Remnants of a 19th-century granite tramway cutting across Dartmoor's high moorland.

Rattlebrook Peat Works

Ruins of a Victorian peat works above the Rattlebrook, served by a railway built in 1879 that hauled peat nearly 5 miles down to Bridestowe station.