The Museum is faced with Portland stone, but the perimeter walls and other parts of the building were built using Haytor granite from Dartmoor in South Devon, transported via the unique Haytor Granite Tramway.

Childe's Tomb is a granite cross on Dartmoor, Devon, England.

Although not in its original form, it is more elaborate than most of the crosses on Dartmoor, being raised upon a constructed base, and it is known that a kistvaen is underneath.

Childe's Tomb is a reconstructed granite cross on the south-east edge of Foxtor Mires, about 500 metres north of Fox Tor on Dartmoor, Devon, England at.

HM Prison Dartmoor is a Category C men's prison, located in Princetown, high on Dartmoor in the English county of Devon.

Dartmoor still has a misplaced reputation for being a high-security prison that is escape-proof.

* Dartmoor Prison is mentioned in The Thirteen Problems, a short story collection written by Agatha Christie, and first published in 1932.

Christie's The Sittaford Mystery ( 1931 ) is set on Dartmoor and features an escaped prisoner.

A cardboard replica is left in its place, which is left standing after the original Dartmoor Prison sinks with all hands at the end of the episode.

* In an episode of The Saint television series entitled ' Escape Route ' ( 1966 ), Simon Templar ( Roger Moore ) is sent to Dartmoor to uncover a planned escape.

* Dartmoor is frequently mentioned in the Agent Z series of comical children ’ s books written by Mark Haddon.

* Dartmoor prison is implicated in the local Dartmoor ' Hairy hands ' ghost story / legend.

It is a charity, which provides an independent viewpoint on the current issues affecting Dartmoor and performs valuable conservation work on archaeological sites.

Dartmoor and the fact that a great deal of it is undisturbed for much of the year is an encouragement to the wildlife.

A good general guide to the commercial activities on Dartmoor at the end of the 19th century is William Crossing's The Dartmoor Worker.

The most obvious evidence of mining to the casual visitor to Dartmoor are the remains of the old engine-house at Wheal Betsy which is alongside the A386 road between Tavistock and Okehampton.

The right of Dartmoor commoners to cut peat for fuel is known as turbary.

The first letterbox meet was held on Dartmoor, and they are now held twice yearly on " clock change days " ( in March and October ).

** The first Ten Tors event is held in Dartmoor.

The organisers stress that the event is not a race – although teams often compete to see who can finish first – but a test of endurance, navigation and survival skills, not just because of the distances and the challenging terrain, but potentially the weather: conditions on Dartmoor can vary considerably and change suddenly.

Bovey Tracey is the start point of the Dartmoor Devil bicycle ride, an annual Audax UK Brevet Populaire event held in late October that takes in over 2, 000 m of climbing and over 100 km around and across Dartmoor.

* Dressed to Kill, A 1946 Sherlock Holmes film uses Dartmoor Prison in the plot as the supposed location where three music boxes were made that contain a secret code for a criminal gang.

Some clues may also be found in other letterboxes or on the Internet, but this is more commonly for letterboxes in places other than Dartmoor, where no " 100 Club " or catalogue exist.

In the South West of England, where the term originated, it is also a word used for the hills themselves – particularly the high points of Dartmoor in Devon and Bodmin Moor in Cornwall.

This process can be seen in Dartmoor where it results in the formation of tors.

It is also played in the neighboring county of Devon, where one theory is that it was introduced by French or American prisoners of war imprisoned in Dartmoor prison during the early 19th century.

Peter, a sailor, had been briefly imprisoned by the British at Dartmoor Prison during the Napoleonic Wars ; he broke jail, made his way back to the sea, and later left his ship in New Orleans, where he used his savings to buy then-inexpensive land northwest of Lake Pontchartrain.

Close to where the river leaves Dartmoor a dam was built in 1957 to form the Avon reservoir ( see Dartmoor reservoirs ).

In September 2010 the RSPB announced that a pair had raised chicks at a secret location on Dartmoor where the bird last bred in 1970.

The River Dart is the source of much folklore on Dartmoor, where it is traditionally respected and feared-the waters have a tendency to rise without notice following heavy rainfall on the moors above, adding to the dangers of its rapids and powerful currents.

There is an isolated introduced population on Dartmoor, and overspill Welsh birds visit the Shropshire Hills such as Long Mynd, where they breed.

* The purchase of off-site property, including the Wellington Sports Grounds and a centre at Lovaton on Dartmoor where the School carries out some of its Duke of Edinburgh Award training as well as other activities.

* Cornubian batholith-early Permian intrusion in the South West of England, forming moors where exposed at the surface, such as Dartmoor

* The Western British ( i. e. Brythonic ) ' Dartmoor longhouse ' variants in Devon, Cornwall, and Wales where it is known as the Ty Hir Located along a slope, a single passage gives access to both human and animal shelter under a single roof.

The Dartmoor longhouse is a type of traditional stone-built home, typically found on the high ground of Dartmoor, in Devon, England and belonging to a wider tradition of combining human residences with those of livestock ( cattle or sheep ) under a single roof specific to western Britain ; Wales, Cornwall and Devon, where they are more usually referred to simply as ' longhouses '.

Forms of longhouses identical to those on Dartmoor are found in Cornwall, particularly on Bodmin Moor and in Wales where they are commonly called tyddyn meaning ' homestead ', or specifically Ty Hir meaning ' long-house ' in the Welsh language.

Both types were in use at Eylesbarrow mine in the first half of the 19th century — the last place on Dartmoor where smelting was done.

Between these two sources lies Duck's Pool, where there is a plaque and letterbox in memory of the Dartmoor author William Crossing.

Between Stingers Hill and Redlake the river turns southward into an area known as The Meadow, where it is crossed by the Upper Erme stone row, the longest on Dartmoor at.

Unlike most of the South Hams where the field boundaries consist of Devon hedge banks, hereabouts the boundaries are walls constructed from rounded river boulders, more like the dry stone walls found on Dartmoor.

Main battles scenes were filmed at Burrator reservoir on Dartmoor in Devon and on the coastal cliff top near Challabought Bay, South Devon where a wooden fort was built.

Spurrell's Cross on Dartmoor marks the spot where the path used by monks to travel from Buckfast Abbey to Plympton Priory met the path from Wrangaton to Erme Pound.

They presently live in Rockingham County, North Carolina, where they run a Dartmoor pony breeding farm.