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Meldon Viaduct
This viaduct was built in 1874 and spans 165 metres over the remains of mineral mines. The views from the viaduct span across to Meldon Dam and reservoir to the south west. The views of this dam almost 50 metres high are as impressive as the original
- Location:
- Okehampton
The Original Miniature Pony Centre
Visitors to the Miniature Pony Centre can experience animals and activities, all set in 20 acres of beautiful parkland within Dartmoor National Park. See, meet and touch over 150 animals, including our famous Miniature Shetland ponies.
- Location:
- North Bovey
Meldon Reservoir
Surrounded by open moorland, Meldon is a breathtaking reservoir lake 900 feet above sea level teeming with native wildlife; befriend one of the fishermen sat on the steep banks and you may glimpse a brown trout!
- Location:
- Okehampton
The Granite Way
The Granite Way is an 11 mile cycle and walkway running along a former railway line between Okehampton and Lydford along the north western edge of Dartmoor.A journey along the Granite Way offers good views of the granite landscape of Dartmoor.
- Location:
- Okehampton And Lydford
Wistmans Wood
This site takes it's name from a small oak wood. This amazing woodland is important for the mosses and lichens that festoon the trees and the impressive granite boulders found on the site.
- Location:
- Princetown
Black a Tor Copse
Black-a-Tor Copse is one of the best examples of high altitude oak woodland in Britain. The lichens and mosses that drape the trees are nationally important- and grow here in this unique clean air woodland.
- Location:
- Okehampton
Stone Lane Gardens & Mythic Garden Sculpture Exhibition
A lovely 5-acre landscaped woodland and water garden with beautiful National Collections of birch and alder trees from all over the northern hemisphere. Garden open all year with summer sculpture exhibition from May to October.
- Location:
- Chagford
Brent Tor
Brent Tor is one of the most impressive rock outcrops on Dartmoor. It is unusual as it is one of the few tors on Dartmoor not to be made of granite. With St Michael’s Church at its top, it makes a distinctive and famous silhouette.
- Location:
- Tavistock
Burrator Quarries
Burrator reservoir is situated within Dartmoor, and the tranquil water and surrounding mixed woodland contrasts sharply with the open moor and the rugged Dartmoor tors.
- Location:
- Yelverton
Okehampton Castle
In an oustandingly pictureque setting above the rushing River Okement stands the remains of what was once the largest castle in Devon. This Norman castle was tranformed into sumptuous residence in the 14th century, then declined to today’s ruin.
- Location:
- Okehampton
