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Okehampton Hamlets, Okehampton
The only timber-framed artillery observation post on the Okehampton Range, banked with earth and turf above Curtery Clitters. Complete, but boarded up.
Okehampton Hamlets, Okehampton
The best-known observation post on the Okehampton Range: a stone-walled, earth-covered shelter at the southern end of the old Circular Road on Okement Hill.
Okehampton Hamlets, Okehampton
The only observation post on the Okehampton Range still in regular use: built in 1923-24 for officers under instruction, beside the car park near East Okement Farm.
Okehampton Hamlets, Okehampton
The army's northern artillery range on Dartmoor, used since 1873: the biggest set of military buildings and earthworks left on the moor, with 22 numbered observation posts.
First World War artillery observation post and target range on the open moor, now a scheduled monument.
Remains of a First World War artillery training installation on the northern moor, with observation post and experimental target carrier system.
Okehampton
Stone foundations scattered across the moor, the remains of OP8, a structure whose original purpose lingers in mystery and moorland silence.
Okehampton
Weathered stone ruins standing alone on the open moor, a tangible remnant of human habitation in Dartmoor's sparse landscape.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Two ranges of jagged tors swept across the skyline and rose, grey and shadowy, against the purple of the air.”
Also on Our DartmoorRound barrow on North Hessary Tor — Bronze Age round barrow crowning North Hessary Tor, one of Dartmoor's prominent granite outcrops.
