Dartmoor Places
A growing set of pages about the villages and towns of Dartmoor.
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Ashburton
Ashburton is a stannary town on the south-eastern edge of Dartmoor, once rich on tin and wool
Bellever
Bellever is a hamlet on the East Dart, surrounded by forest and prehistoric remains
Belstone
Belstone is a beautiful village on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, UK
Bonehill
Bonehill is a hamlet above Widecombe, beneath the granite of Bonehill Rocks
Bovey Tracey
Bovey Tracey is a small town on the eastern edge of Dartmoor, known as the gateway to the moor
Bridestowe
Bridestowe is a village on the north-western edge of Dartmoor, near Lydford and the Granite Way
Buckfast
Buckfast is home to Buckfast Abbey, a working monastery rebuilt by its monks with their own hands
Buckfastleigh
Buckfastleigh is a former wool town on the southern edge of Dartmoor, next to Buckfast Abbey
Buckland in the Moor
Buckland in the Moor is a thatched hamlet famous for its church clock lettered MY DEAR MOTHER
Chagford
Chagford is an ancient stannary town on the northern edge of Dartmoor, above the River Teign
Challacombe
Challacombe is a remote farmstead below Challacombe Down, beside medieval strip fields and Grimspound
Cornwood
Cornwood is a village on the southern edge of Dartmoor, a gateway to the Erme valley and the southern moor
Dartmeet
Dartmeet is where the East and West Dart rivers join, one of the best loved spots on the moor
Drewsteignton
Drewsteignton sits above the Teign Gorge, close to Castle Drogo and Fingle Bridge
Dunsford
Dunsford is a thatched village in the Teign valley, famous for its wild daffodils in spring
Gidleigh
Gidleigh is a remote parish on the north-eastern moor with a castle ruin and Scorhill stone circle nearby
Haytor Vale
Haytor Vale is a village built for the granite quarrymen, in the lee of Dartmoor's most famous tor
Hexworthy
Hexworthy is a scattered hamlet on the central moor near Dartmeet, with the Forest Inn at its heart
Holne
Holne is a village above the Dart valley, birthplace of the writer Charles Kingsley
Horrabridge
Horrabridge is a village on the River Walkham on the south-western edge of Dartmoor
Ilsington
Ilsington is a village on the south-eastern moor between Haytor and the Bovey valley
Ivybridge
Ivybridge is a town on the southern edge of Dartmoor and the southern end of the Two Moors Way
Lettaford
Lettaford is a tiny medieval hamlet near North Bovey, preserving some of Dartmoor's finest longhouses
Lustleigh
Lustleigh is a thatched village on the eastern edge of Dartmoor, famous for its May Day and its cleave
Lydford
Lydford is a Saxon burh on the western edge of Dartmoor, with a castle, a gorge and a fearsome legal reputation
Manaton
Manaton is a village on the eastern moor near Bowerman's Nose, Hound Tor and Becka Falls
Mary Tavy
Mary Tavy is a former mining village on the western moor, close to the Wheal Betsy engine house
Meavy
Meavy is a village on the south-western moor, famous for the ancient Meavy Oak on its green
Merrivale
Merrivale is a hamlet on the western moor beside one of Dartmoor's finest prehistoric sites
Michelcombe
Michelcombe is a hamlet below Holne Moor, at the foot of an old track onto the southern moor
Moretonhampstead
Moretonhampstead is a market town on the north-eastern edge of Dartmoor, long called the gateway to the moor
North Bovey
North Bovey is an unspoilt thatched village around a green on the eastern edge of Dartmoor
North Brentor
North Brentor is a village below Brent Tor, whose church on a volcanic plug is a Dartmoor landmark
Okehampton
Nestled on the northern edge of Dartmoor National Park, Okehampton is one of Devon's oldest market towns and has served as the principal gat
Peter Tavy
Peter Tavy is a quiet village on the western edge of Dartmoor, the gateway to Tavy Cleave
Ponsworthy
Ponsworthy is a tiny hamlet in the valley of the West Webburn, with a ford through its centre
Postbridge
Postbridge is home to Dartmoor's finest clapper bridge, a medieval granite crossing of the East Dart
Poundsgate
Poundsgate is a village above the Dart valley, home to the Tavistock Inn and a famous Devil legend
Princetown
Princetown is the highest settlement on Dartmoor, home to Dartmoor Prison and the moor's main visitor centre
Scorriton
Scorriton is a small village on the southern moor above the Dart, below Scorriton Down
Shaugh Prior
Shaugh Prior is a village above the Plym, close to the Dewerstone and its Wild Hunt legend
Sheepstor
Sheepstor is a hamlet beneath its tor beside Burrator Reservoir, burial place of the Rajahs of Sarawak
Sourton
Sourton is a village below the north-western moor, known for the Highwayman Inn and Sourton Tors
South Brent
South Brent is a village on the southern edge of Dartmoor beneath Brent Hill, on the River Avon
South Tawton
South Tawton is an old village below Cosdon Hill, with one of Devon's finest church houses
South Zeal
South Zeal is a medieval planned village beneath Cosdon Hill, home to the Oxenham Arms
Sticklepath
Sticklepath is a picturesque village on the north-eastern edge of Dartmoor National Park
Tavistock
Tavistock is one of Devon's most historic and attractive market towns
Throwleigh
Throwleigh is a small granite village on the northern edge of Dartmoor beneath Cosdon Hill
Two Bridges
Two Bridges is a hamlet at the centre of Dartmoor where the moor's main roads cross the West Dart
Walkhampton
Walkhampton is a village on the south-western moor near Burrator, with a prominent hilltop church
Widecombe-in-the-Moor
Widecombe-in-the-Moor is home to the Cathedral of the Moor and the famous Widecombe Fair
Yelverton
Yelverton is a welcoming village on the south-western edge of Dartmoor in Devon, where open moorland meets wooded river valleys and traditio
A Vast Solitude
A Vast Solitude by Paul Harris - Glavind Strachan Photography A review of "An Exploration of Dartmoor and its…
Will the real Mary Maria Colling please stand up?
Will the real Mary Maria Colling please stand up? (A Dartmoor Story about a lowly Tavistock resident in the Nineteenth…
Bowerman’s Nose: Legends are like memes in slow motion
Bowerman’s Nose: Legends are like memes in slow motion by Paul Harris - Glavind Strachan Photography The universe is…
Exercise Baskerville
Exercise Baskerville by Clive Darke In 1967 there were eighteen deaths from exposure (hypothermia) and frostbite on…
In the Footsteps of Francis Drake
In the Footsteps of Francis Drake by David J. Hawkings As a boy growing up in Plymouth, I often found myself looking to…
The Loneliest Place
The Loneliest Place by George Wall A solitary hawthorn twists improbably out of the earth. The silhouette of a distant…
Prehistoric Dartmoor
Prehistoric Dartmoor by Andrew McAuley Most visitors to Dartmoor National Park are aware that it is a landscape full of…
