Dartmoor Devon CAM.

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Tavy Cleave Place: Dartmoor Category: Moorland Prints of this photograph are available to order world wide. Click here to order online now. About: Tavy Cleave is a river valley enclosed in a steep gorge which is rare to find on Dartmoor. It is a very beautiful place and it is also a good way to approach the central parts of North Dartmoor and Fur Tor. Photograph Added: 31st December 2011

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Bridge on Dartmoor Place: Dartmoor Category: Moorland About: Theses wonderful stone bridges on Dartmoor are today a big tourist attraction but when they were built the people would just have been making a way to cross the river. Photograph Added: 31st December 2011

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Nuns Cross farm Place: Dartmoor Category: Moorland About: This isolated farm building is used by school groups or scout groups and Duke of Edinburgh groups. It is also used by Ten Tors training groups, cadets, and corporate training teams all of these groups use the farm to generate a sense of team work a...... Photograph Added: 10th December 2011

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Nuns or Siwards Cross Place: Dartmoor Category: Ancient Sites About: Nuns or Siwards Cross is the largest and oldest recorded cross on Dartmoor. It was mentioned in the 1240 Perambulation of the Forest of Dartmoor, The cross was probably erected during Edward the Confessors reign and it stands at the junction of tw...... Photograph Added: 10th December 2011

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Moorland Tree Place: Dartmoor Category: Moorland Prints of this photograph are available to order world wide. Click here to order online now. About: The moors are a pretty desolate place at the best of times and this bent over tree seems to epitomise the sense of barren isolation Photograph Added: 10th December 2011

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About Dartmoor Devon.

Devon boasts the two national Parks of Dartmoor and Exmoor both are excellent for bird watching, cycling, climbing, casual waking or more serious rambling to sightseeing.. Footpaths are marked to give a variety of walking options including the 'Two Moor way' a 100 mile route that links the National Parks. Dartmoor to the south is rich in natural and man made beauty, heather clad hills, granite tors, fast flowing rivers and ancient clapper bridges

Dartmoor itself was designated a National Park by a statute in 1951. The moors cover an area of 368 square miles (954 sq km) and about 33,400 people actual live there and of course millions of people visit the moors each year.
The whole Dartmoor is owned by someone but fortunately there is legal public access to over 47,000 hectares of open country and 450 miles (730km) of public rights of way. Almost half of the area is open moorland, with a further 11% covered by forests and woodland. Within Dartmoor there are nature reserves and Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI?s) where rare plants and endangered birds and burial chambers, stone circles and menhirs are to be found.
Sixty percent of Dartmoor is granite, an igneous rock which was intruded some 295 million years ago.Around the granite is sedimentary rocks including limestones, shales and sandstones belonging to the Carboniferous and Devonian periods.
The highest point on the moor is High Willhays at 621m or2,039ft and the lowest point is Doghole Bridge at30m or 98ft. About eighteen rivers flow on the moors there are over 160 tors the highest three being, High Willhays, Yes Tor and Great Links Tor.
The moors are a wonderful place to see ancient monuments, there are over 1,000 Scheduled Ancient Monuments and over 2,500 buildings which are Listed because of their architectural or historic interest. One statley home, Castle Drogo, which is owned by the National Trust,has approximately. 105,000 visitors every year..
Dartmoor is a timeless treasure and well worth a visit to walk, ramble, cylce, bird watch or just to admire the awesome beauty of the place.
Many of the facts and figures and information listed here have been obtained from the Dartmoor National Park Authority website at http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/index.html this website is very interesting and is a must see for anyone planning to visit the moors.