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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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West Chapple Farmhouse
Antiquities

West Chapple Farmhouse

A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the edge of Dartmoor, likely dating from the medieval period and representative of the vernacular architecture that shaped the moor.

Heritage & Places

West Cottages

Lower Merripit, Chagford

Weathered stone cottages slowly surrendering to Dartmoor, their empty windows framing moorland sky.

West Week Farmhouse
Antiquities

West Week Farmhouse

Grade II* listed farmhouse on the edge of Dartmoor, likely medieval in origin with later additions.

Westcott Cottage
Antiquities

Westcott Cottage

A Grade II* listed cottage on the high moor, built in the vernacular style of rural Dartmoor.

Western White Barrow
Antiquities

Western White Barrow

A Bronze Age burial mound on Dartmoor, identifiable by its pale stone cairn.

Antiquities

Westernmost cairn

Bronze Age cairn at the western end of a cairnfield on Homerton Hill, a scheduled monument on Dartmoor.

Heritage & Places

Wheal Betsy

Kingsett, Tavistock

The dramatic stone ruins of a tin mine engine house stand sentinel on the open moor, a monument to Dartmoor's industrial past.

Heritage & Places

Wheal Jewell

Horndon, Tavistock

Crumbling stone ruins of a 19th-century tin mine nestled in Dartmoor's moorland, a haunting reminder of the region's industrial past.

Wheal Katherine near Plym Ford
Antiquities

Wheal Katherine near Plym Ford

Remains of a tin mine shaft and workings on the western edge of Eylesbarrow, part of Dartmoor's industrial heritage.