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'Dart.i.fact | D'ärtə fakt | (Brit. Dart.e.fact) noun 1 an object or site found on Dartmoor, typically of cultural, historical or geological interest.'

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      • Farming
        • ‘Modern’ (i.e. non-prehistoric) Pounds
        • Ancient Tenements
        • Bartons, Large Farmhouses or Manor Houses)
        • Bee Boles
        • Cattle
          • Cattle Grids
        • Commons (areas of heather moorland that belong to a parish)
        • Concrete Rollers
        • Farm Items
          • Knife Grinder Support Stones
          • Old Metal Cart Wheels
          • Rick Staddles
        • Farm Machinery
        • Farms, Farmhouses, Farmsteads and Working Farms
        • Field Wall Crossing Points
          • Farm Style Gates
          • Stiles
            • Granite Stiles
            • Wooden Stiles
          • Stone Wall Steps
          • Wall Gaps
        • Fields
          • Distinctive or Named Field Wall Corners
          • Ruined Field Wall Remains (possibly prehistoric/ probably medieval?)
        • Granite Field Posts
        • Granite Rubbing Posts/ Buggers
        • Granite Structures
        • Iron Stakes
        • Longhouses
        • Minor Ruins
        • Moor Gates
        • Potato Caves
        • Rabbit Warrens/ Pillow Mounds
        • Repurposed Farmhouses
        • Ruined Farmsteads
        • Sheep Creeps/ Holes
        • Vermin Traps
        • Walled-in Gates
        • Walls
        • Windstrews
        • Working Farms
      • Granite (Worked)
        • Abandoned Granite
          • Apple Crushers
          • Blowing Stones
          • Carved/ Dressed Granite
          • Edgerunners
          • Fallen Gateposts
          • Feather & Tare Stones
          • Gate Posts used for building walls
          • Granite Cubes
          • Granite Rollers
          • Holed Stones
          • Millstones
          • Quadrant Pound-Stones
          • Stone Troughs
          • Wheelwright’s Forms
        • Boundary, Guide and Distance Markers
          • Bedford Markers
            • Bedford Marker Posts
            • Bedford Markers Inscribed
          • Bound Stones on Haytor Down
          • Cator Boundstones ‘CB’
          • County Bridge Stones
          • Dartmoor Preservation Association (DPA) Stones
          • G P (Gideligh Parish) Bound Markers
          • Gidleigh Parish (inscribed G or GP) Boundary Stones
          • Great Stannon Newtake Boundary Markers
            • Great Stannon Newtake Boundary Rocks
            • Great Stannon Newtake Boundary Stones
          • Guide and Waymark Stones
          • H Huxton Bound Stones
          • Iron Cobras (Forest Bounds)
          • Lydford, Brisdestowe and Sourton Boundary Stones
          • Milestones
            • Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway Milestones
            • Road Milestones
          • Misc. Bound Stones
          • Misc. Stones
          • PCWW Markers
            • Abandoned PCWW Marker Posts
            • PCWW 1917 Markers
            • PCWW 1919 Markers
            • PCWW 1932 Markers
            • PCWW Cast Iron Markers
          • Pew Tor Marker Stones
            • Pew Tor Marker Stones 1847
            • Pew Tor Marker Stones 1896
          • PUDC (Paignton Urban District Council) Boundary Stones, Venford Reservoir, Holne Moor
          • Riddon Ridge Stones
          • Sampford Spiney Parish Boundary Stones
          • Small Cairns, pile of stones – possibly relatively modern to mark a summit, path or junction
          • TA (Tavistock Ashburton) Guide Stones
          • Tavistock Rural District Council (TRDC) Posts
          • The Duke Stones
          • The Heathercombe Three Fishes
          • Torquay Water Main (TWM) Stones
          • WD (War Department) Stones
        • Crosses
          • Granite Crosses
            • Abandoned/ Broken Crosses
            • Memorial Crosses
            • Socket Stones
            • Unconfirmed Crosses
            • Wayside Crosses
          • Inscribed Crosses
        • Granite Gate Posts
          • Granite Gate Posts (Slotted)
          • Granite Gate Posts with Hangars
          • Slip-Style Granite Gate Posts
        • Inscribed Granite Rails
        • Misc. Inscribed Rocks
        • Revd. Edward Bray Inscriptions
        • Special Items
          • Incised Marks
          • Lintels
            • Lintels (doorways)
          • Ruined Steps
          • Stone Seats
      • Industry
        • China Clay
          • China Clay Pools
          • China Clay Slurry Pipes
          • China Clay Waste
          • China Clay Works
        • Corn Mills
        • Forestry & Timber
          • Forest Paths
          • Timber Transporting Aerial Ropeways
        • Fulling Mills (wool treatment)
        • Gunpowder Manufacturers
        • Mining
          • Mines
            • Copper Mines
            • Fluorspar Mines
            • Haematite (Iron Oxide) Mines
            • Lead Mines
            • Silver Mines
            • Zircon Mines
          • Shafts
          • Tinning (Tin Mining)
            • Adits
            • Blowing Houses
            • Buddles
            • Crazing Millstones
            • Flat Rod Pillars
            • Girts
            • Mortar Stones
            • Mould Stones/ Float Stones
            • Tethering Rings
            • Tin Mines
            • Tin Workings
              • Beams (Open Mining Gullies or Trenches)
              • Tinners’ Gullies and Gulfs
            • Tinners’ Buildings
            • Tinners’ Caches
              • Beehive Huts
            • Tinners’ Caves
            • Tinners’ Caves, Caches and Fougous
              • Tinners’ Corbelled Caches
            • Tinners’ Evidence
            • Tinners’ Huts
            • Tinners’ Items
              • Crazing Mills
            • Tinners’ Reservoirs
            • Tinners’ Test Pits
            • Wheel Pits
            • Wheelhouses
            • Whim Stones
        • Misc. Industrial Structures/ Items
          • Concrete Bases
          • Nice old walls
          • Ruined Buildings
        • Miscellaneous Industrial Items
          • Iron Spikes
        • Peat
          • Peat Cutters’ Buildings
          • Peat Cutters’ Huts
          • Peat Kilns
          • Peat Pass Markers
          • Peat Passes
          • Peatworks
        • Quarrying
          • Explosives Stores
          • Misc. Quarry Items
          • Quarry Locations
          • Quarrying Machinery
        • Reservoirs
          • Capped Boreholes
          • Explosives Stores
        • Sett Makers’ Bankers
      • Military (Modern)
        • Aircrash Sites
        • Firing Ranges
          • 629 Capping Stones
          • Ammunition Demolition Craters
          • Butts
          • Datum Posts
          • Distance Markers
          • Flag Poles
          • Granite Rifle Range Communication Posts
          • Impromptu Defensive Structures
          • Observation Posts (OPs)
        • Military Firing Range Targets
        • Military Targets
        • Military Telephone Points
        • Military Tethering Rings
        • Misc. Military Ruins
        • Modern Military Camps
        • Other Military Buildings
        • World War II Evidence
          • Home Guard Lookout Posts
          • Low Level Radar Pylon Bases
          • Misc. Ruined WW2 Buildings, Machinery or Equipment
          • WWII Aerodromes
          • WWII Air Raid Shelters
          • WWII Anti-Aircraft Gun Emplacements
          • WWII Glider Posts
          • WWII Rifle Ranges
          • WWII Roborough Down Decoy Airfield (Codename: PL2!)
            • Decoy Runway Lightbases
      • Non-Granite Posts
        • Sign Posts
        • Telegraph Markers
        • Water Board Posts (?)
        • Wooden Pegs
      • Ordnance Survey (OS)
        • B.M. (Ordnance Survey Bench Marks)
        • Contour Rings
        • Ex Trig Stations (Ordnance Survey Trig Points that no longer exist!)
        • Ordnance Survey Bench Marks with a Bolt
        • Ordnance Survey Flush Brackets
        • Ordnance Survey Trig Stations
        • OS Spot Height
        • Unfinished Bench Marks?
      • Other Hut Structures
        • Unidentified Ruined Buildings
      • Refreshments, Facilities & Accomodation
        • B&Bs
        • Cafes, Tea Shops, Restaurants and Diners!
        • Camping Barns
        • Hostels & Bunkhouses
          • YHA
        • Hotels
        • Inns
        • Museums
        • Pubs
      • Transport
        • Rail and Tram
          • Abandoned Rail Gauge
          • Embankments
          • Granite Points
          • Milestones
          • Railway Bridges
          • Railway Hut Ruins
          • Railway Lines
          • Railway Tunnels
          • Railway Viaducts
          • Stable Ruins
          • Tramways
        • Road & Track
          • Roads
            • Crossroads
            • Gateways
          • Trackways
    • Land Features
      • Boulders, Stones & Rock Features
        • Balancing Boulders
        • Caves (made and natural/ fallen slabs)
        • Large Boulders
        • Large Cairns (rubble remains of eroded tor or prehistoric grave?)
        • Large Flat Slabs of Granite
        • Logan Stones
        • Odd Boulders & Rocks
        • Rock Basins
        • Rock Features
          • Pareidolia (Seeing Faces in Rocks)
        • Rock Seats
        • Rock Shelters
        • Rocky Outcrops
        • Small Cairns or Piles of Rocks
        • Zoomorphism (perceiving an inanimate object as having animal traits)
      • Named Tors, Hills & Outcrops (for Baggers!)
        • Animal Named Tors
        • Dewey Hills
        • Large Outcrops
        • Rocks
        • Short, Steep Hills
        • Solitary Interesting Rocks
      • Terrain
        • Bogs, Marshes and Mires
        • Brakes (thickets, possibly in marshlands)
        • Clatters/ Clitters (scattered rocks/ boulders – remains of eroded tors)
        • Commons
        • Downs
        • Ferns
        • Ghylls (a deep ravine or narrow mountain stream often wooded)
        • Gorse
        • Holes
        • Meadows
        • Moors
        • Ridges
        • Valleys
          • Bottoms (Valleys)
          • Cleaves & Gorges (Steep Valleys often found near the edge of the moor)
          • Combes (small valleys, usually closed at the top end)
        • Wastes (small areas of rough pasture)
        • Wilderness!
      • Trees
        • Copses
        • Famous Trees
        • Forests
          • Forest Corners
        • Trees growing in split rocks
      • Woods
    • Water Features
      • Flowing Water
        • Brooks
        • Cascades and Swirling Pools
        • Rivers
          • River Confluences (& Foots)
          • River Heads
          • River Islands
          • River Pools
          • Rivers Meet
        • Springs
        • Streams (‘Lake’ on Dartmoor means stream!)
        • Waterfalls
      • Still Water
        • Bays
        • Ponds
        • Pools
        • Reservoirs
        • Swimming Pools!
        • Wells
      • Water Crossings
        • Bridges
          • Clam Bridges
          • Clapper Bridges
            • Leat Clapper Bridges
          • Rickety Iron Footbridges
          • Ruined Bridges
          • Stone Bridges
          • Tube Bridges
          • Wooden Bridges
        • Fords
        • Stepping Stones
        • Viaducts
      • Water Related Items
        • Aqueducts
        • Bullseyes
        • Drain Covers
        • PCWW Drain Covers
        • Pump Houses
        • Reservoir Boundary Structures
        • Reservoir Control Stations
        • River/ Livestock Barrier Gates
        • Unidentified Water Objects (U.W.O.s ??)
        • Water Height Gauges
        • Water Monitoring Stations
        • Water Pounds (small reservoirs)
        • Water Tunnels
        • Weirs
      • Waterways
        • Leats
          • Flowing Leats
          • Head Weirs
          • Kinks-in-Leats (for night navigation test!)
          • Leat Foot Bridges (FBs)
          • Leat Junctions
          • Leat Sluice Gates
          • Leat Tunnel Entrances
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