Dartmoor & Exmoor
Stalldown Barrow
414M
1357FT
About Stalldown Barrow
Rising above the River Erme on the southern fringes of Dartmoor, this broad, grassy ridge is dominated by its remarkable prehistoric heritage. Home to one of the moor's most impressive stone rows, the summit offers clear, long-distance views over the South Hams toward Plymouth Sound and the English Channel.
Key Statistics
Rank
53rd Highest in Region
Parent Range
Dartmoor
Prominence
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59
Nearest Town
South Hams
Geology
This path rests on a solid foundation of granite, created when molten rock cooled and hardened deep beneath the Earth's surface.
Classifications
Find It
OS Grid Reference
SX635622
Latitude
50.4437°N
Longitude
3.9238°W
Did You Know?
- •The name 'Stalldown' likely derives from the Old English 'steall', meaning a place for cattle or a stable, and 'dun', meaning a hill, reflecting its long history as upland grazing land.
- •The hill features the Stalldown stone row, a 500-metre alignment where several stones stand over three metres high. This is unusually tall for Dartmoor rows, which more often consist of smaller, knee-high stones.
- •From the summit barrow, the view extends south past the town of Ivybridge to the distinct silhouette of the Plymouth Breakwater and the English Channel.
- •The hill is frequently visited alongside the nearby Stall Moor stone circle and Piles Copse, one of the three high-altitude ancient oak woodlands that survive on the moor.
- •In 1897, the Baring-Gould exploration committee re-erected many of the fallen stones in the row; they did such a tidy job that modern visitors occasionally forget they are looking at a Victorian interpretation of a Bronze Age monument.