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Dartmoor Heritage

Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.

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Heritage & Places

Site of Drake's birthplace

Walreddon, Tavistock

The modest farmstead where Sir Francis Drake was born, hidden among Dartmoor's rolling hills and ancient moorland.

Antiquities

Southern of five cairns

Bronze Age cairn on the north eastern slope of White Hill, part of a wider cairnfield marking ancient settlement on Dartmoor.

Antiquities

Southernmost of four cairns

The southernmost cairn of a Bronze Age cairnfield on White Hill's western slope, a scheduled monument on Dartmoor.

Antiquities

Spring Head, SX 620 935

Belstone, Okehampton

A holy well on the open moor, likely medieval or earlier in origin, marking a place of water and spiritual significance.