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Hound Tor Medieval Village

Dartmoor, Devon

The stone ruins of farmhouses abandoned on the moor 700 years ago.

Below the rocks of Hound Tor lie the remains of a medieval farming village, with longhouses where families lived at one end and animals at the other. It was abandoned in the 1300s, perhaps because the weather grew colder and wetter, or because of the Black Death.

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When
Abandoned c.1300s
Where
50.5960, -3.7760
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

English Heritage, free. A short walk from the Hound Tor car park.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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