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Whiteworks (or White Works) is a former mining hamlet near the town of Princetown, within Dartmoor National Park, in the English county of Devon. Tin mining is central to the history of settlement at Whiteworks, which was once home to one of Dartmoor's largest tin mines. The original cottages and their inhabitants were related to this industry ...
Grimspound - a late Bronze Age settlement on Dartmoor; Hallsands - Village and beach. Hundatorra, near Hound Tor (DMV. Now in the care of English Heritage [17]) Hutholes, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Dartmoor. Lacoma - a deserted medieval village on Exmoor. New Quay (Devon) – A port on the river Tamar abandoned in the early 20th century.
Rippon Tor Rifle Range's brick stop butt. Rippon Tor Rifle Range is a disused rifle range from World War II on Dartmoor, Devon, England.The range is situated southeast of the 473 m high Rippon Tor, near the village Widecombe-in-the-Moor, and close to the road between Halshanger and Cold East Cross.
Dartmoor includes the largest area of granite in Britain, with about 625 km 2 (241 sq mi) at the surface, though most of it is under superficial peat deposits. The granite (or more specifically adamellite) was intruded at depth as a pluton into the surrounding sedimentary rocks during the Carboniferous period, probably about 309 million years ago. [2]
The acidic soil of Dartmoor has destroyed nearly all organic material; it is therefore difficult to tell what Grimspound must have been like during its occupation. A flint arrowhead found nearby, and the lack of querns for grinding cereals, hint at some dependency on goods from outside the area (flint is not local to Dartmoor). The Exploration ...
The industrial archaeology of Dartmoor covers a number of the industries which have, over the ages, taken place on Dartmoor, and the remaining evidence surrounding them. Currently only three industries are economically significant, yet all three will inevitably leave their own traces on the moor: china clay mining, farming and tourism.
The bridge across the West Dart at Hexworthy. Hexworthy / ˈ h æ k s ər i / [1] is a hamlet on Dartmoor, in Devon, England. It lies on the West Dart River a mile upstream from Dartmeet. Historically in the parish of Lydford, [2] since 1987 it has been in the civil parish of Dartmoor Forest. Hexworthy has an inn, the Forest Inn, opened in the ...
Bellever is a hamlet in Dartmoor, Devon, England.It is located on the river East Dart about 2 kilometres (1 mi) south of Postbridge.. The first mention of a settlement at this location is in a Duchy of Cornwall record from 1355 which gives the name of a farm here as Welford, a contraction of wielle (spring) and ford. [1]