Stone Rows

Three thousand years old and still standing on Dartmoor - that's what gets you about the Stone Rows. These aren't grand monuments like Stonehenge. They're far stranger: long lines of small stones stretching across the moorland, sometimes for hundreds of metres, their original purpose still genuinely mysterious. Burial sites? Processional ways? Nobody really knows, and that's rather brilliant.

What you actually do is walk. The rows aren't fenced off or museumified - they're just there on the open moor near Exeter, weathered grey stones poking through heather and grass. If you've got the ordnance survey map handy and sturdy boots, you can trace them yourself. The landscape around them is proper Dartmoor: boggy, windswept, genuinely atmospheric when the weather turns. It's not a sit-down attraction. It's archaeology that demands you get out and explore.

Walkers and history types will find real value here. Kids might lose interest quickly unless you pitch it as treasure hunting. Families staying at Woodland Springs Touring Park, just four miles away, could easily make this part of a bigger Dartmoor day - combine it with a proper walk, pack a thermos. The National Park itself is a short drive, so you're looking at proper moorland holidays rather than drop-in attraction tourism.

Go when it's not raining if you can help it. The stones aren't going anywhere, and they're free to visit.