dartmoor

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd171y7nx9lo All inmates have been moved from Dartmoor prison, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has confirmed. The MoJ said it began and staged the removal of all 175 inmates out of HMP Dartmoor on 18 July after high levels of radon were detected.

On our way back from a holiday in Cornwall, my girlfriend and I were looking for a little stop off on the way home. There's a couple of other reports on here about this site, and it's pretty close to the A30 so it was perfect for our first explore. Belstone Bunker is a disused water treatment...

Hidden on the edge of Dartmoor near a village called Belstone is an underground bunker that has been unused for decades. The bunker near Okehampton used to be a water treatment works, however it hasn't been used for many years. The former treatment plant was originally owned by South West Water...

Rippon Tor Rifle Range is a disused rifle range situated in Dartmoor National Park. When the Second World War broke out, Dartmoor was used for a lot of military activity, with artillery firing included in this. Rippon Tor Rifle Range was used to train soldiers and was built in 1941...

This report is on nine military plane crash sites in the south-west, seven on Dartmoor and two on Bodmin Moor. It is not quite exhaustive, as I never got to the wreck of an US Navy PB4Y on Steepleton Tor, Dartmoor, as it is within the military training zone. There are also the remains of two...

Don’t have any history on this one I’m afraid. Went before and was boarded up, came again recently as going past and could get access. It was an old school house, not very big. It had two entrances at each end of the building which would of been separate entrances for boys and girls. Outside...

Rippon Tor Rifle Range is a rifle range within Dartmoor National Park in Devon, situated close to Rippon Tor, near the village Widecombe-in-the-Moor. Upon the outbreak of the Second World War, virtually the entire Moor saw renewed activity, as it was commandeered for the use of military...

BELSTONE PUMP HOUSE Seen this before and was working nearby, so thought I'd take a mooch and check it out. Lovely walk up to the site on crisp December day. "Dotted around the valley floor are various boreholes, their presence marked by mounds with concrete entrances that make them...

Stumbled onto this site for the first time this week and was simply amazed of the content. I quickly searched for somthing near me to do my first exploration and i ended up a belstone pump house. I know its been covered before on here but it was almost a year ago. If your local its well worth a...

Merrivale quarry continued excavating and working its own granite until the 1970's, producing gravestones and agricultural rollers. Work at Merrivale continued until the 90's where imported granite from Norway and Italy was dressed and polished. In 2003 the quarry was flooded. Granite from...

A mini report from me of Merrivale Quary, Dartmoor... I believe this place closed in 2003, Since then a large lake has formed. There are quite a few out buildings, though many have been raided of anything useful when the plant closed... the crane still exists as does much of the plant...