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Berry Pomeroy Castle

Berry Pomeroy Castle consists of a Tudor mansion within the walls of an earlier castle. It is located about a mile north-east of the village of Berry Pomeroy, near Totnes, Devon, England (grid reference SX839623). It occupies a limestone outcrop that overlooks the deep, wooded, narrow valley of the Gatcombe Brook. Between 1980 and 1996 the castle was subjected to extensive archaeological excavations that have clarified much of its history and overturned previously-held opinions…

Blackbury Camp

Blackbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort situated near Seaton, Devon, England. The ramparts are still relatively high, showing an unusual entrance feature. The fort occupies the end of a large ridge at some 185 metres (607 ft) above sea level. It was defended by a single bank and ditch, forming a roughly D-shaped enclosure. A triangular barbican was added to the south but was never completed. The fort was probably occupied in the second and first centuries BC by a cattle-farming community…

Dartmouth Castle

Dartmouth Castle is one of a pair of forts, the other being Kingswear Castle, that guard the mouth of the Dart Estuary in Devon, England (grid reference SX885503)…

Grimspound

Grimspound is a late Bronze Age settlement, situated on Dartmoor in Devon, England. It consists of a set of 24 hut circles surrounded by a low stone wall. The name was first recorded by the Reverend Richard Polwhele in 1797 - it was probably derived from the Anglo Saxon god of war, Grim (more commonly known as Woden, or Odin)…

Hound Tor Deserted Medieval Village

Hound Tor is a tor on Dartmoor, Devon, England and is a good example of a heavily weathered granite outcrop. It is easily accessible, situated within a few minutes from the B3387 between Bovey Tracey and Widecombe-in-the-Moor. Baring Gould said that it derived its name from the shape assumed by the blocks on the summit that have been weathered into forms resembling the heads of dogs peering over the natural battlements…

Kirkham House

Kirkham House is a late medieval stone house in Paignton, Devon, England…

Lydford Castle and Saxon Town

Lydford, sometimes spelled Lidford, is a village, once an important town, in Devon situated six miles (13 km) north of Tavistock on the western fringe of Dartmoor in the West Devon district, 27 m. North of Plymouth…

Merrivale Prehistoric Settlement

The remains of a Bronze Age settlement, side by side with several sacred sites, including three stone rows, a stone circle, standing stones and burial cairns, probably constructed over a long period between c. 2500 BC and 1000 BC…

Okehampton Castle

Okehampton Castle is a ruined motte and bailey castle situated in Devon, England…

Royal Citadel

The Royal Citadel in Plymouth, Devon, England, was built in the late 1660s to the design of Sir Bernard de Gomme. It is at the eastern end of Plymouth Hoe overlooking Plymouth Sound, and encompasses the site of the earlier fort that had been built in the time of Sir Francis Drake…