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Princetown
A group of Dartmoor granite workings near Princetown, worked from the 1820s until 1938. Twelve unused granite corbels, cut in 1903-04 for the widening of London Bridge, still lie beside the old railway trackbed here.
Haytor Vale
Five disused granite quarries on the east side of Dartmoor, worked from around 1820 by George Templer. Stone from here built the old London Bridge, completed in 1831, and travelled to the coast via the Haytor Granite Tramway and Stover Canal.
Eric Hemery's guide to the vanished tramroads and railways that once crossed Dartmoor's high moor and border country.
Didworthy
A southern moor brook running down off the high ground near the Avon, past old tramway and mining remains, to join the River Avon in the wooded country above South Brent.
A spoil tip located alongside the usually submerged Tin Blowing Mill on Dartmoor.
A modest tor with a prominent balancing boulder and traces of industrial archaeology nearby.
Medieval rabbit warrens and tin working remains on Trowlesworthy Warren, north of Blackaton Cross.
Sticklepath, Okehampton
The last working water-powered forge in England
Brimley, Bovey Tracey
Remnants of a 19th-century granite tramway cutting across Dartmoor's high moorland.
