The Wheeled Access Group was set up in 2017 as part of Moorland Guides. We wanted to find routes on Dartmoor so that the 2018 Dartmoor Walking Festival could offer walks to people using powered chairs and mobility scooters. We have come a long way since then.
Widecombe-in-the-Moor
Dartmoor poetry and collaborative art celebrating the landscape through verse and photography.
A Bronze Age stone row stretching across open moorland, its weathered granite sentinels still aligned as they were 4,000 years ago.
Industrial relics of Dartmoor's china clay era: Victorian settlement ponds and iron pipework carved into the moorland.
Crownhill, Plympton
A striking Victorian fortress crowning the high moor, built to defend against an invasion that never came.
Longdown, Chudleigh
Enigmatic Iron Age earthworks hidden in Dartmoor's high moorland, their purpose still debated by archaeologists.
Industrial stone tramway carved into Dartmoor's granite landscape, a forgotten route connecting quarry to railway.
Chagford
Weathered stone ruins of a moorland farm, slowly being reclaimed by Dartmoor's granite-strewn landscape.
Mill Leat, Buckfastleigh
Iron Age hilltop fort with sweeping views across Dartmoor, where ancient ramparts still command the moorland skyline.
