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| Bittaford Small village nestling on the Southern boarders of Dartmoor. Sitting on the edge of the Plymouth to Exeter A38, just East of Ivybridge. |
| Cornwood CORNWOOD, a small village in the Yealm valley, on the southern borders of Dartmoor Forest. There has been habitation in the vicinity of Cornwood since the Bronze Age, there has been human influence in the area for 3,500 years or more. There are Bronze Age remains in the parish, but the origins of the present settlement site are uncertain. It was, however, a Domesday manor (Cornehuda) so the locality is likely to have been occupied at some time before that. Prospered on Dartmoor's clay pits since the 15-16th centuries. |
| Ivybridge and Lee Mills Ivybridge has a magnificent natural setting and boasts centuries of history both as a mill town and as a staging post on the route from London. The first recorded mention of the town was in 1280 when it was described as a dowry of land on the west side of the River Erme, by the Ivy Bridge. For many years, the bridge spanning the river was only wide enough for pack horses and riders. By the 18th century, Ivybridge was a small, thriving community based around the former London Hotel, which was a coaching inn on the Exeter to Plymouthroad. The river became a source for water power and industry prospered around the bridge. In the 16th century, there was a tin mill, an edge mill, a tool mill and a corn mill. These were later followed by a tucking mill, for cloth-making, and two paper mills. Water leats directed the water to the mills. At the northern end of the town centre is the medieval packhorse bridge, the original Ivy Bridge. |
| Lee Moor The village is located on the South Western boarders of Dartmoor National Park, next to the Clay pits, which contains a complex of China Clay workings centred around the village of Lee Moor, stretching north-westwards to Cadover Bridge and south-eastwards to Quick Bridge on the Cornwood Road. On Lee Moor is the only example yet found on Dartmoor of a chambered hut of pre-Roman Iron Age date, a type of dwelling which is better known in Cornwall. |
| Lutton A small village located on the South Western boarders of Dartmoor National Park, in between Lee Moor and Corntown. Near by is the Slade viaduct, this trestle-less piers originaly built with both wood and stone, by Brunel in 1848-9 now stands alongside the newer 1893 replacement.
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| South Brent South Brent is a large village just east of the southern-most part of Dartmoor where Ugborough and Western Beacons dominate the edge of the high moorland mass. It takes its name, however,from Brent Hill just to its north, whose conspicuous outline characterises the settlement’s immediate setting. When the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086, the manor of ‘Brenta’was recorded as belonging to the Abbot of Buckfast at the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066. It had, in fact, been endowed to the Abbey by King Canute shortly after the monastery’s foundation in 1018 – and it continued to belong to the Abbey until its dissolution in 1539. That South Brent was indeed settled in Saxon times is evidenced in the fabric of the Church, as stonework of the period survives in the lowest part of the tower. small |
| Sparkwell
On the South Western boarders of Dartmoor National Park. Famous for its Dartmoor Wildlife Park and adventure playground. |
| Wotter
The village of Wotter really only came into existence in 1906. Prior to that date there were only 2 dwelling houses and a farm between Shaugh Prior and Lee Moor. As Arthur Selleck tells us, houses were needed for the workmen who were being employed by the Dartmoor China Clay Company during its expansion, so the company had them built. |
 | Wrangaton The hamlet of Wrangaton nestles in a picturesque and rural setting in the parish of Ugborough, quite close to the South Eastern corner of Dartmoor. |
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