Landmarks
See also List of Dartmoor tors and hills
- Black Tor Beare – remote woodland of stunted oaks over 305 m (1,001 ft) above sea level in West Okement valley
- Bowerman's Nose – unusual rock formation
- Brentor Church – remote church 344 m (1,129 ft) high on crag at western edge of moor
- Burrator Reservoir – late Victorian reservoir
- Castle Drogo – Edwardian faux castle built by Edwin Lutyens on crag above Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton
- Childe's Tomb – ancient burial site
- Church House, South Tawton – 15th century church ales house
- Cosdon or Cawsand Beacon – prominent hill, northern extremity of moor, site of beacon fire for invasion warning
- Cranmere Pool – original letterbox site and location of the legend of Cranmere Binjie
- Crazywell Pool – artificial lake
- Dartmeet – meeting point of East and West Dart
- Devonport Leat – man-made water channel
- Duck's Pool – location of a memorial to local writer William Crossing
- Fernworthy Dam & Reservoir – granite-faced concrete dam and lake in Fernworthy Forest, nr. Chagford
- Great Links Tor – dominant tor on NW scarp of moor
- Grey Wethers – pair of ancient stone circles
- Grimspound – Bronze Age settlement
- Haytor Granite Tramway – remarkable early tramway with stone rails; ran from quarries at Haytor to Stover Canal
- Haytor Rock – prominent tor and viewpoint between Bovey Tracey and Widecombe
- High Willhays – highest point on Dartmoor
- Hound Tor – rugged tor with remains of Iron Age village
- Jay's Grave – mysterious burial site
- Lydford Gorge – dramatic, very deep and narrow gorge with waterfalls
- Meldon dam & viaduct – 201 m (659 ft) wide and 45 m (148 ft) high concrete dam and dramatic Victorian iron bridge which itself is 165 m (541 ft) wide and 46 m (151 ft) high
- Powdermills, Cherrybrook – remains of gunpowder grinding mill near Two Bridges
- Rattlebrook railway – remains of horse-worked railway track to peat works near Great Links Tor
- Scorhill stone circle – (Pronounced 'Scorill') well-preserved circle of standing stones near Teign-e-ver, Gidleigh
- Skaigh Valley – narrow, wooded valley leading up on to moor at Belstone; on famous Sticklepath geological fault
- Tavistock Canal – 19th century canal
- Tavy Cleave – dramatic river gorge on western moor near Mary Tavy
- Teign-e-ver – confluence of North Teign and Wallabrook; clapper bridges & tolmen stone
- Two Bridges – 18th century coaching inn
- Warren House Inn – highest inn in SW England
- Wheal Betsy – engine house of mine on Blackdown, Marytavy
- Widgery Cross – granite cross atop Brat Tor, memorial erected by Dartmoor artist William Widgery to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887
- Wistman's Wood – remote copse of stunted oaks in valley of West Dart near Two Bridges
- White Hart Hotel – historic 17th century coaching inn in Moretonhampstead
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