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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Heritage & Places

RAF Memorial

Lower Hookner, Moretonhampstead

A solemn memorial to RAF personnel who lost their lives on the high moorland during the Second World War.

Heritage & Places

Railway bridge supports

Colebrook Village, Plympton

Sturdy stone supports of a Victorian railway viaduct, silent witnesses to Dartmoor's industrial past among the moorland.

Antiquities

Ramsay Mine (dis)

Scattered granite ruins of a 19th-century tin mine, now reclaimed by heather and bilberry on open moorland.

Antiquities

Rattlebrook Mine (Disused)

Remnants of tin mining activity scattered across Dartmoor's open moorland, revealing the industrial heritage hidden beneath the granite landscape.

Rattlebrook Peat Works
Heritage & Places

Rattlebrook Peat Works

Ruins of a Victorian peat works above the Rattlebrook, served by a railway built in 1879 that hauled peat nearly 5 miles down to Bridestowe station.

Antiquities

Rectangular building near Hen Tor

A rectangular stone building standing isolated on the moor northwest of Hen Tor, likely from the medieval or early modern period.

Antiquities

Riddapit Longhouse

Ruined medieval longhouse nestled in Dartmoor's moorland, where moorland farmers once sheltered livestock and family under a single roof.