Our Dartmoor Directory

Blytheswood Hostel

Steps Bridge, Dunsford

Stay in ancient woodland on the eastern edge of the Dartmoor National Park.

Julius Drewe

Drewsteignton

Founder of the Home and Colonial Stores (1856-1931), who retired at 33 and built Castle Drogo above the Teign Gorge, the last castle built in England.

Sir Edwin Lutyens

Drewsteignton

British architect (1869-1944) who designed Castle Drogo for Julius Drewe, built 1911-1930 at about a third of his original plan.

Bearacleave North Tor

Bovey Tracey

Bearacleave North Tor, known locally as the Walrus, is a prominent granite formation deep within Bearacleave Wood, just north of Bovey Tracey.

White Woods

Holne

Ancient oak woodland on the south side of the River Dart gorge below Bench Tor, part of the Devon Wildlife Trust's Dart Valley reserve, reached via Venford Reservoir.

The Cider House

Buckland Monachorum, Tavistock

Luxury self-catered retreat set within Buckland Abbey's 700-acre National Trust estate on Dartmoor's fringe.

Wooston Castle

Scheduled hillfort earthwork in Fingle Woods above the Teign gorge, assumed to be Iron Age. A 2018 dig found a medieval radiocarbon date in the upper ditch fill and no dating evidence for the Iron Age assumption.

Devonshire Inn

Sticklepath, Okehampton

This unspoilt thatched local, with low ceilings and an open fire, was originally at the end of a terrace of Elizabethan cottages in this Dartmoor village. Entering it today is to experience an atmospheric step back in time. There is a leat running past the rear wall of the pub which helps cool the cake ales on stillage, as well as powering the waterwheel of the Finch Foundry Museum (NT) next door.

Moretonhampstead Parish Council

Moretonhampstead

The parish council for Moretonhampstead, the 'Gateway to the Moor' on Dartmoor's eastern edge.