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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Heritage & Places

Chagstock Festival Ground

Whiddon Down, Chagford

A historic gathering place on the edge of Dartmoor where community and landscape converge.

Antiquities

Chambered cairn near Buttern

A Neolithic chambered cairn on the southern slopes of Buttern, typical of Dartmoor's prehistoric burial monuments.

Antiquities

Chambered cairn near Buttern

A Neolithic or Bronze Age chambered cairn on the open moor south of Buttern, part of Dartmoor's rich prehistoric monument landscape.

Heritage & Places

Charcoal / Saltpetre Works

Powder Mills

Weathered stone foundations where Dartmoor's trees once fed furnaces for wartime gunpowder production.

Antiquities

Cholwich Town contour reave

Bronze Age settlement with field system, cairn and enclosed structures on the open moor near Cholwich.

Church Cottage
Antiquities

Church Cottage

A Grade II* listed cottage, likely medieval or early modern in origin, standing as a modest domestic survival on Dartmoor.

Church House
Antiquities

Church House

A Grade II* listed church house, a modest vernacular building that once served the social and administrative needs of a moorland parish.

Church House Cottages
Antiquities

Church House Cottages

Grade II* listed cottages with roots in domestic Dartmoor life, likely medieval or early modern in origin.

Church House Sexton's Cottage
Antiquities

Church House Sexton's Cottage

A listed stone cottage that served the practical needs of a parish churchyard, likely dating from the 17th or 18th century.