New influences
Towards the end of the Bronze Age, economic, social and climatic changes forced most of the population to withdraw from the higher ground down to the edges of the moor.
Roaming the landscape - the earliest human impact
Wealth from the land - Farming and agriculture
Wealth from the land - The Development of Industry
By the middle of the Bronze Age, most of the trees had been cleared from high Dartmoor and the land had become farmland.
William Wordsworth in his Guide to the Lakes stated that the Lake District should be "...a sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy."
New Developments
Housing in the first half of the twentieth century was very basic compared with today.
Appreciating Dartmoor
