Belstone
The stepping-stone and ford crossing of the East Okement River below Belstone Tor, a named point on the old Forest boundary, now crossed by army bridges.
Belstone
A pool on the East Okement River just below Cullever Steps, a remote wild swimming spot below Belstone Tor.
Gidleigh
The roofless octagonal tower that remains of a house built on Gidleigh Tor in 1848 for Thomas Levett Princep, who died before he could live in it.
Postbridge
At Wild Calm Dartmoor, we believe that nature has a remarkable ability to restore, inspire and ground us. Through mindful walking, silent walks and wild camping on Dartmoor, we invite you to slow your pace, notice the beauty in the landscape, and reconnect with yourself and the world around you.
Lydford, Okehampton
A ruined drystone enclosure on the east bank of the River Lyd, opposite Black Rock below Brat Tor, marked on the 1900s Ordnance Survey map but not on the 1880s one. Its purpose is not recorded and we have found no written description.
“All around the hills were silent; and the long pale shadows lay, like flaws of calm on tidal waters; while the "holy circles," where unholy deeds had stained the moor, stood up, like ghosts that have no churchyard.”
Who wrote this?
Lydford, Okehampton
A small quarry marked on the 1900s Ordnance Survey map on Doetor Common, beside the track about 200 m north-north-east of Doe Tor Farm. No written record of it has been found, and a pile of loose granite in the rough ground nearby does not line up with its mapped position.
Lydford, Okehampton
A small waterfall on the Doetor Brook between Doe Tor and Brat Tor, described by William Crossing in 1914 as a most charming cascade hidden away in a narrow rift.
Lydford, Okehampton
Small stone workings on the south-west slope of Brat Tor, below Widgery Cross: heaps of broken granite and blocks with the notches left by splitting stone with tare and feather. It is not marked as a quarry on the old maps and we have found no written record of one.
Lydford, Okehampton
A small concrete slab bridge carrying a well-used path over the Doetor Brook between Doe Tor and Brat Tor, a few metres from the gate to Doe Tor Farm and easy to miss among the gorse.
Plate from A Hundred Years on Dartmoor, page 45, 1901“I never don't like two faces under one hat.”
Also on Our Dartmoor(Pitt House) Including Stable Range Adjoining North — A Grade II* listed farmhouse with attached stable range, likely dating from the 17th or 18th century.
