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The programme brings together Dartmoor National Park Authority, the Woodland Trust, Sustrans, the RSPB, Dartmoor Hull Farm Project, Emergency Exit Arts and Flock South West, the Environment Agency ...
It also houses some typical Dartmoor archaeological features, such as a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age burial kistvaen (or cist) and a medieval granite cross from Ter Hill. This marked the Monk's Path but was constantly being pushed over by cattle. The purpose of the Garden is to illustrate the biodiversity on Dartmoor. The project came online in ...
Dartmoor Zoological Society (originally Dartmoor Wildlife Park then Dartmoor Zoological Park) is a 33-acre (13 ha) [2] [3] zoo just north of the village of Sparkwell, on the south-west edge of Dartmoor, in the county of Devon in the South West of England. It was opened in 1968 by Ellis Daw who ran it until its licence was revoked and it was ...
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 Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA) is a national park authority in England, legally responsible for Dartmoor in Devon. It came into existence in its present form in 1997, being preceded by a committee of Devon County Council (from 1951 to March 1974) and the Dartmoor National Park Committee from 1 April 1974.
Wistman's Wood is one of Britain's last remaining ancient temperate rainforests and one of three remote high-altitude oakwoods on Dartmoor in Devon, England. The first written document to mention Wistman's Wood date to the 17th century, while more recent tree-ring studies show that individual trees could be many hundreds of years old.
This is a list of Dartmoor tors and hills. Dartmoor is a National Park in South West England that contains many granite outcrops of many different sizes. The main authority (other than the OS map) is "Dartmoor Tors and Rocks" by Ken Ringwood. Birch Tor, with the Warren House Inn in the distance Vixen Tor, with Great Mis Tor beyond
The project will restore habitats and remove obstacles such as weirs which prevent animals from freely moving between sections of the river. [17] The decrease in pollution is also hoped to increase beach quality in places such as Instow, [ 18 ] which failed water quality tests in 2012, one of only sixteen beaches in the South West to fail. [ 19 ]