PLYMOUTH

Dartmoor is an archaeologist’s delight and a landscape lover’s paradise. The national park covers 600 square miles of high, boggy plateaux and open moorland and heath, divided by the River Dart. The stark, granite uplands, with their tors, give way to the soft, wooded river valleys and their fast flowing streams. Dartmoor’s history is immense. There are prehistoric stone rows dotting Bronze Age field systems and Bronze and Iron Age hut circles leading up to hillforts. Ancient clapper bridges cross the [...]