Powder Mills
Powder Mills is a heritage site in Dartmoor Forest, West Devon District, England. Powder Mills is situated nearby to the ruins Magazine, as well as near Incorporating mills.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gunpowder factory at Powder Mills, a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement and round cairn and Wistman’s Wood.
Gunpowder factory at Powder Mills, a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement and round cairn
Industrial building
Photo: Smalljim, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gunpowder factory at Powder Mills, a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement and round cairn is an industrial building.
Wistman’s Wood
Deciduous forest
Photo: alex jane, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wistman's Wood is one of Britain's last remaining ancient temperate rainforests and one of three remote high-altitude oakwoods on Dartmoor in Devon, England.
Kraps Ring
Archaeological site
Photo: Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kraps Ring is an archaeological site, which is situated 1 mile northeast of Powder Mills.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lower Cherrybrook Bridge and Bellever.
Lower Cherrybrook Bridge
Locality
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lower Cherrybrook Bridge is a locality, which is situated 1½ miles south of Powder Mills.
Bellever
Hamlet
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Bellever is a hamlet in Dartmoor, Devon, England. It is located on the river East Dart about 2 kilometres south of Postbridge. The first mention of a settlement at this location is in a Duchy of Cornwall record from 1355 which gives the name of a farm here as Welford, a contraction of wielle and ford. Bellever is situated 1½ miles east of Powder Mills.
Postbridge
Village
Photo: Brian Henman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Postbridge is a hamlet in the heart of Dartmoor in the English county of Devon. It lies on the B3212, roughly midway between Princetown and Moretonhampstead. Postbridge is situated 1½ miles northeast of Powder Mills.
Powder Mills
- Type: Heritage site
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Dartmoor Forest, West Devon District, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.57965° or 50° 34′ 47″ northLongitude
-3.93876° or 3° 56′ 20″ westOpen location code
9C2RH3H6+VFOpenStreetMap ID
way 442416408OpenStreetMap feature
historic=heritage
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