Properly called a Blanket Bog, occasional duplication does occur where a place is called both a bog and a mire – see Mire.Įxamples – Archerton Bog, Barramoor Bog, Bellever Bog, Beltor Bog, Browne’s House Bog, Caroline Bog, Dunnabridge Bog, Kendon Bog, Langstone Bog, Liapa Bog, Metheral Bog, Rowter Bog, Scutley Bog and Swincombe Bog.īottom – A term used to name some of the Dartmoor valleys where it is used as a proper name. In many cases there is some duplication with categories for a particular place but that is only to be expected.Īdit – An entrance driven usually horizontal into a hillside and used for either working or draining a mine, sometimes also called a ‘huddit’.Įxamples – Deep Adit, Two Brother’s Adit.īall – A suffix which describes a hill with a rounded ‘ball-like’ appearance.Įxamples – Blackaton Ball, Bowden Ball, Brisworthy Ball, Broom Ball, Corndown Ball, Coryndon Ball, Cuckoo Ball, Glascombe Ball, Greena Ball, Jordan Ball, Looka Ball, Pinchaford Ball, Red Brook Ball, Rowden Ball, Top Ball, and Yearlick Ball.īeacon – A a prefix or suffix attached to a high hill, many although not all were the sites of beacon and signal fires.Įxamples – Beacon Hill, Buckland Beacon, Cosdon Beacon, Eastern Beacon, Hambledon Beacon, Penn Beacon, Shaugh Beacon, Ugborough Beacon, Western Beacon, and Yarner Beacon.īeam – A suffix which describes an area of mining activity usually recognisable as a deep, open working in the form of a trench or gully.Įxamples – Black Beam, Cater’s Beam, Curbeam, Gibby’s Beam, High Liners Beam, Holming or Omen Beam, Owlacombe Beam, Piper’s Beam, Quickbeam, Riddipit Beam, Scutley Beam, Shabba Beam, Shilstone Beam, and Willabeam.īeare – A name derived from the Anglo Saxon word – Beara which means ‘wood’ and is still found in some place names.Įxamples – Beara, Black tor Beare, Dolbeare Farm, Frenchbere,īog – A term used to describe a tract of hilltop peat bog, often called a ‘fen’ or ‘vane’ in the vernacular.
I have collected these names over the years from numerous books, maps, documents and oral sources, many of them are not marked on the OS maps and literally thousands more have been forgotten. This page is an attempt to list and describe what can be found on the moor, it is by no means exhaustive and will no doubt be regularly added to. There are numerous natural and man-made physical landscape features found on Dartmoor, many of which have unique local names to describe them.
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