Trowlesworthy Warren settlements

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
SX574643

Also known as:

Little Trowlesworthy Tor settlements and Trowlesworthy Tors settlements

Nearest town:

Plympton (8km SSW)

OS reference:

SX574643

OS sheet:

202

Latitude:

50° 27' 44.68 N

Longitude:

4° 0' 18.49 W

Added to TMA by

Lubin

Images (7)

Images

Image of Trowlesworthy Warren settlements by thesweetcheat

Looking southwest across Blacka Brook towards Saddlesborough.

Image credit: A. Brookes (26.6.2024)

thesweetcheat Jul 7, 2025

Image of Trowlesworthy Warren settlements by thesweetcheat

Substantial enclosure wall.

Image credit: A. Brookes (26.6.2024)

thesweetcheat Jul 7, 2025

Image of Trowlesworthy Warren settlements by thesweetcheat

Looking northwest towards Trowlesworthy Warren House (behind the trees, centre) with Wigford Down on the left skyline.

Image credit: A. Brookes (26.6.2024)

thesweetcheat Jul 7, 2025

Image of Trowlesworthy Warren settlements by thesweetcheat

Enclosure wall of one of the lower enclosures southeast of Trowlesworthy Warren House.

Image credit: A. Brookes (26.6.2024)

thesweetcheat Jul 7, 2025

Image of Trowlesworthy Warren settlements by thesweetcheat

Settlement on the lower slopes southeast of Trowlesworthy Warren House.

Image credit: A. Brookes (26.6.2024)

thesweetcheat Jul 7, 2025

Image of Trowlesworthy Warren settlements by Lubin

One of the better preserved huts of the settlement. This one still has it’s doorway intact.

Image credit: Peter Castle. ©

Lubin May 7, 2007

Image of Trowlesworthy Warren settlements by Lubin

A hut in the settlement that lies on the south west slope of the Tor.

Image credit: Peter Castle. ©

Lubin May 7, 2007

Sites within 20km of Trowlesworthy Warren settlements

Trowlesworthy Warren

Cairn circle • 0.5km SSE

34

3

2
Trowlesworthy West Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 0.54km SSW

26

3

1
Willings Walls Reave

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 0.61km E

1

1
Trowlesworthy East Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 0.61km S

20

3

1
Trowlesworthy Warren

Cist • 0.63km W

1

1
Spanish Lake

Cist • 0.8km E

1
Willings Walls Warren cist

Cist • 0.86km NE

2
Legis Tor Cist

Cist • 1.04km NW

5

1
Willings Wall Warren

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 1.31km N

3
Ditsworthy Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 1.34km NNE

1

1
Tory Brookhead

Cairn(s) • 1.34km ESE
Tory Brookhead

Enclosure • 1.44km ESE

7
Brisworthy Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 1.56km WNW

67

1

8

1
Emmets Post

Cairn(s) • 1.58km SW

1

1
Ringmoor Down Cist

Cist • 1.69km WNW

3

1
Hen Tor North / Shavercombe Brook

Cairn(s) • 1.92km NE

7

1
Ringmoor Cairn Circle and Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 1.98km WNW

63

7

3
Ringmoor Down cairns

Cairn(s) • 2.11km WNW

3
Shell Top

Cairn(s) • 2.11km E

3
Saddlesborough summit cairns

Cairn(s) • 2.19km SW

3

1
Ringmoor Kerbed Cairn

Kerbed Cairn • 2.19km WNW

6
Gutter Tor settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 2.2km NNW

3
Gutter Tor Cist

Cist • 2.3km NNW

16

1
Saddlesborough settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 2.33km WSW

12

1
Cholwich Town (destroyed)

Stone Row / Alignment • 2.34km SE

1

2
Gutter Tor

Natural Rock Feature • 2.4km N

2
Ringmoor Down Reave

2.41km W

1
West Saddlesborough Hut Circles

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 2.54km WSW

12

2
West Saddlesborough Stone Row & Cairn Circle

Stone Row / Alignment • 2.54km WSW

23

3
Gutter Tor cairns

Cairn(s) • 2.63km NNW

9

1
West Saddlesborough Cairn

Cairn(s) • 2.63km WSW

5

2
Penn Beacon

Cairn(s) • 2.71km ESE

2
Whittenknowles Rocks Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 2.72km NNE

8

1
Penn Beacon South

2.97km ESE

3
Drizzlecombe Megalithic Complex

Complex • 3km NNE

116

8

1
Collard Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 3.09km SW

11

1
Wigford Down

Cairn(s) • 3.13km W

11

1
Yellowmead SE cairn

Cairn(s) • 3.25km NNW

3

2
Yellowmead Multiple Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 3.3km NNW

52

3

11

3
Ditsworthy Warren

Cist • 3.33km NNE

7

1
Eylesbarrow South West

Cist • 3.42km N

9

2
Higher Hartor Tor

Round Cairn • 3.43km NE

3

1
St Leonard’s Well

Sacred Well • 3.48km NW

2

2
Wigford Down

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 3.56km W

2
Outcombe

Cist • 3.7km N

1

1
Plym Steps Round Cairn

Round Cairn • 3.73km NE

5
Langcombe Brook / Deadman’s Bottom

Cairn(s) • 3.77km NE

35

1
Plym Steps

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 3.79km NE

10
Dewerstone Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 3.81km WSW

4

4
Shell Top South West

Enclosure • 3.94km WSW

9
Grim’s Grave

Cairn circle • 3.97km ENE

14

1
Dendles Waste

Cist • 4.19km E

1

1
Cuckoo Rock

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 4.27km N

2

1
Calveslake Tor

Cairn(s) • 4.3km NE

2

1
Ranny Brook

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 4.38km E

3

1
Eylesbarrow

Cairn(s) • 4.65km NNE

15

3
Down Tor South

Cist • 4.71km N

2

1
Down Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 4.87km N

69

1

7

1
Down Tor NW

Round Cairn • 4.91km N

1
Hingston Hill North

Cist • 5.03km N

3
Coombebrook North East

Cairn(s) • 5.05km E

1

1
Narrator Brook Head enclosure

Enclosure • 5.15km N

9

2
Narrator Brook Head cairn

Cairn(s) • 5.16km NNE

10

1
Great Gnat’s Head

Cairn(s) • 5.16km NE

2

1

1
Leather Tor South

Cist • 5.19km NW

2
Harrowthorn Plantation North

Cairn(s) • 5.22km E

1

1
Stalldown Barrow and Hillson’s House

Cairn(s) • 5.54km E

20

5

1
Stall Moor Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 5.78km ENE

20

7

1
Peek Hill

Kerbed Cairn • 5.79km NW

1

1
Stall Moor Cairn

Cairn(s) • 5.79km ENE

5

2
Erme Plains

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 5.89km ENE

1
Boringdon Camp

Hillfort • 5.9km SSW

13

1
Stalldown Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 5.9km E

46

1

6

2
Blatchford Bottom settlements

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 6km E

3
Erme Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 6.1km ENE

4

1
Hook Lake

Stone Row / Alignment • 6.31km ENE

3

1
Hook Lake

Enclosure • 6.36km ENE

4

1
Raddick Hill

Cairn(s) • 6.4km NNW

17
Sharpitor

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 6.41km NW

10

5
Leeden Tor South

Cist • 6.43km NNW

1

1
Sharpitor Cist

Cist • 6.48km NW

5

2
Sharpitor cairns

Cairn(s) • 6.48km NW

16

2
Fox Tor Mire

Cist • 6.61km NNE

1

1
Stall Moor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 6.74km ENE

12

2
Horseyeatt

Stone Row / Alignment • 6.75km NW

4

1
Stalldown South-East

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 6.83km E

8

2
Black Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 6.9km NNW

17
Goldsmith’s Cross/Fox Tor Mire

Cist • 6.95km NE

4

1
Roborough Beacon

Enclosure • 7.13km WSW

8

2
Hart Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 7.19km NNW

45

1

3
Black Tor

Rocking Stone • 7.3km NNW

8

1
Burford Down

Stone Row / Alignment • 7.42km ESE

18

5
Burford Down cairn and cist

Cairn(s) • 7.45km ESE

8

1
Childe’s Tomb

Cist • 7.45km NE

5

2
Western White Barrow

Cairn(s) • 7.63km ENE

9

3
Ingra Tor

Cist • 7.73km NW

1

1
Sharp Tor

Cairn(s) • 7.76km E

5

1
Three Barrows

Cairn(s) • 7.83km E

10
Devil’s Gully Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 7.98km N

8
Harford Moor

Cist • 8.02km E

15

2
Piles Hill stone row

Stone Row / Alignment • 8.03km E

3

1
Buckland Ford Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 8.16km ENE

10
Maristow Camp

Enclosure • 8.16km WSW
Ter Hill

Cist • 8.33km NE

2

1
Yes Tor Bottom

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 8.35km NNW

1

1
Piles Hill cairns

Cairn(s) • 8.38km E

8

2
Broken Barrow

Round Cairn • 8.49km NNE

10

1
Piles Hill longstone

Standing Stone / Menhir • 8.56km E

12

2
Butter Brook Ford

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 8.58km ESE

5

1
Royal Hill Cist

Cist • 8.72km NNE

24
Huntingdon Warren Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 8.76km ENE

1

1
Eastern White Barrow

Cairn(s) • 8.79km ENE

9

1

1
Heap of Sinners

Cairn(s) • 8.8km ENE

11

1

2
Glasscombe Ball

Cairn(s) • 8.96km E

3

2
Butterdon stone row

Stone Row / Alignment • 8.98km E

16

1

3
Glasscombe Ball North

Stone Row / Alignment • 8.99km E

1
Biller’s Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.01km ENE

2

1
Glasscombe Corner

Stone Row / Alignment • 9.15km E

11

2
Weatherdon Hill

Cairn(s) • 9.2km ESE

2

1
Snowdon

Cairn(s) • 9.24km ENE

6

1
The Crock of Gold Cist

Cairn(s) • 9.27km NNE

4

1

3
Joan Ford’s Newtake

Cist • 9.31km NE

3

1
Corringdon Ball Stone Row

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 9.33km E

15

1
Spurrell’s Cross Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 9.34km E

6

2
Pecked Circle

Stone Circle • 9.34km NE

1
Butterdon Hill (north) cairn

Round Cairn • 9.43km E

3

1
Addicombe

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.48km ESE
Glaze Meet

Cairn(s) • 9.55km E

3

1
Skir Hill

Cairn(s) • 9.63km NE

1
Corringdon Ball Long Barrow

Long Barrow • 9.68km E

14

1
Butterdon Hill cairns

Cairn(s) • 9.69km ESE

21

2
Butterdon Hill cairn circle

Cairn circle • 9.73km ESE

4

2
Hucken Tor

Natural Rock Feature • 9.76km NW

1

1
Ryder’s Hill

Cairn(s) • 9.79km NE

2

1
Pupers Hill

Cairn(s) • 9.87km ENE

11

1

3
Blakey Tor

Cist • 9.93km NNE

5

1
Yellowmeade

Cist • 9.99km NNW

2

1
Brockhill Foot West

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 10.01km ENE

9

1
Rider’s Rings

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 10.07km ENE
Swincombe Ford Newtake

Cairn(s) • 10.08km NNE

2
Brockhill Ford West

Cairn(s) • 10.12km ENE

2
Brockhill Enclosed Settlements

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 10.14km ENE

1
Butterdon Hill Chambered Tomb

Chambered Tomb • 10.21km ESE

8

2
Merrivale Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 10.37km NW

45

3
Cuckoo Ball

Chambered Tomb • 10.38km ESE

13

2
Western Beacon

Cairn(s) • 10.39km ESE

19

5
Vixen Tor

Cist • 10.39km NW

14

4

1
Round Hill

Cairn(s) • 10.46km NNE

8
The Plague Market At Merrivale

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 10.53km NNW

109

19

1
Sherberton Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 10.67km NE

26

4

1
Dean Moor

Cairn(s) • 10.67km ENE

8

1

1
Cantrell Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 10.87km ESE

3

2
Merrivale Bridge Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 10.88km NW

8

1

1
Mardle Valley

Cairn(s) • 10.9km ENE

1

1
Gripper’s Hill

Cairn(s) • 10.91km ENE

13

1

1
Barn Hill / Whitchurch Down

Cist • 10.91km NW

1

2
Down Ridge

Stone Circle • 10.92km NE

12

2
Holne Moor

Cist • 11.05km NE

1

2
Aish Ridge

Stone Row / Alignment • 11.06km E

2

2
Harbourne Head cairns

Cairn(s) • 11.48km ENE

2

1
Holne Moor Triple Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 11.78km NE

2
Harbourne Head

Standing Stone / Menhir • 11.87km ENE

5

1
Little Mis Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 11.96km NNW

8
Long Plantation

Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art • 12.07km N

1

1

1

1
Dunnabridge Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 12.21km NE

5

2
Aller Brook

Cist • 12.31km NE

1

1
Great Western Reave

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 12.46km NW

1

1
Cox Tor

Cairn(s) • 12.5km NW

2

1
Black Newtake

Cairn circle • 12.93km NNE

9

1
Brent Hill

Hillfort • 12.96km E

1
Wistman’s Wood

13.04km N

2

2
Yar Tor Hut Circle

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.14km NE

6
Coffin Stone

Natural Rock Feature • 13.29km NE

1
Laughter Tor

Standing Stone / Menhir • 13.29km NE

7

4
Roos Tor Northeast

Cairn(s) • 13.44km NNW

1
Bellever Tor West

Cist • 13.55km NNE

8

1
Littaford Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.62km N

1
Langstone Moor

Enclosure • 13.67km NNW

3
Langstone Moor

Cairn(s) • 13.75km NNW

4

1
Bellever

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.77km NNE

26

7

1
Yar Tor summit cairn

Cairn(s) • 13.83km NE

9

1
Langstone Moor Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 13.83km NNW

18

1

4
Yar Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 13.99km NE

20

1

1
Stennen Hill

Cist • 14.12km NNE

9

1
Crow Tor

Cist • 14.36km N

2

1
Arch Tor (South-West)

Round Cairn • 14.4km NNE

3
White Tor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 14.41km NNE

8

1

1
White Tor East

Cist • 14.42km NNW

6

1
White Tor Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 14.53km NW

17
Langstone Moor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 14.54km NNW

11

1
Corndon Tor

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 14.56km NE

33

1
Conies Down

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 14.62km N

1
Riddon Ridge Field Systems

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 14.63km NE

3

1
Riddon Ridge

Round Cairn • 14.74km NE

5
Lakehead Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 14.78km NNE

61

2

2
Corndon Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 14.9km NE

1
Rowtor Bog Cairns

Cairn(s) • 14.94km NNE

16

1
Kraps Ring

Enclosure • 15.14km NNE

6

1

1
Beardown Man

Standing Stone / Menhir • 15.21km N

13

2
Hembury Castle

Hillfort • 15.38km ENE

19

5

1
Archerton, Newtake

Cist • 15.53km NNE

1

1

2
Chittaford Down

Cist • 16.01km NNE

9

2
Chittaford Cairn and Cist

Cist • 16.11km NNE

8

2
Roundy Park settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.4km NNE

3
Roundy Park

Cairn(s) • 16.4km NNE

16

2
Cator Common North Cairn

Cairn(s) • 16.6km NE

3

1
Broad Down Cairn

Cairn(s) • 16.79km N

2

1
Soussons Common Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 17.14km NE

30

8

2
Mount Edgcumbe Barrow

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 17.37km SW

1

1
The Dun Stone

Natural Rock Feature • 17.87km NE

1

1
Soussons Down

Cairn(s) • 18.08km NNE

2
Stannon Newtake

Cist • 18.19km NNE

1

1
Cut Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 18.32km N

12

4
Heathfield Beacons

Round Barrow(s) • 18.79km WNW

2
Blackdown Rings

Hillfort • 18.81km ESE

1

1
Wittaburrow

Cairn(s) • 18.91km NE

11
Sittaford Tor hut circles

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 19.02km NNE

3
Sittaford

Stone Circle • 19.03km N

14

1

1

1
Tunhill Rocks

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 19.11km NE

1
Blackslade Down

Cist • 19.12km NE

7

1
Water Hill

Cairn(s) • 19.14km NNE

2
Brent Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 19.16km WNW

22

7
Water Hill

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 19.27km NNE

1
The Greywethers

Stone Circle • 19.59km NNE

63

4

11

3
Foale’s Arrishes

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 19.64km NE

9
Hingston Down East

Round Barrow(s) • 19.66km W

1
Challacombe

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 19.83km NE

19

2
Horridge Common (West)

Cairn(s) • 19.83km NE

1

1
Top Tor

Cairn(s) • 19.86km NE

7
Assycombe Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 19.93km NNE

33

3