26 June 2007
Visit Haytor on a new look Virtually Dartmoor web site
Visit one of Dartmoor’s most popular locations, from the comfort of your own home at www.virtuallydartmoor.org.uk. Take a virtual tour of Haytor Down on Dartmoor National Park Authority’s Virtually Dartmoor web site which has been re-launched with a fresh new look. Virtually Dartmoor is a series of online virtual tours of various locations on Dartmoor including Princetown, Postbridge and Higher Uppacott, a Grade I listed medieval longhouse. |  |
Becky Newell, Oral History Project Officer, Dartmoor National Park Authority, said:
‘These virtual tours are a unique combination of oral history recordings and expert interpretation, illustrated with superb 360 images. Virtually Dartmoor provides the online visitor with access to a huge store of knowledge, enabling the visitor to enjoy a personal guided tour of some of Dartmoor’s rich natural and cultural heritage’.
The new virtual tour of Haytor Down includes stunning images of one of Dartmoor’s most iconic tors and extensive western heathland which, during the late summer, bursts into a purple and gold carpet of gorse and heather flowers.
 | During the tour you will find out about the importance of the Dartmoor pony in maintaining this spectacular landscape; discover some of the extensive archaeological remains to be found there, from prehistoric field boundaries to 19th century granite quarry remains and visit nearby Yarner Wood, the inspiration for Eden Phillpotts 1912 novel, The Forest on the Hill. |
Virtually Dartmoor has now been online for 18 months and in that time has attracted tens of thousands of visitors from around the world and received critical acclaim. Visit www.virtuallydartmoor.org.uk and find out for yourself what makes Virtually Dartmoor so popular.
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For Further Information
Becky Newell, Oral History Project Officer
Mike Nendick, Communications Officer, Dartmoor National Park Authority
Tel: (01626) 832093
Notes for Editors
Virtually Dartmoor was created by Dartmoor National Park Authority with the help of the Dartmoor Trust, and funded by the Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund. and English Heritage.
www.english-heritage.org.uk (external link, opens new window)
Visitors comments:
Fascinating virtual tour! I visit Dartmoor each year from Maine, USA and this web site is great! Thank you!
Being disabled and living in New Zealand, I have thoroughly enjoyed this tour.
What a fantastic site! Congratulations - if only everyone was able to produce something as enticing as this. I must come to visit the real thing!
It was great to return back to my schooldays some 40 years ago. I now must return to Postbridge once more. Thanks for putting a smile on my face.
Virtually Dartmoor was designed and built by Ashburton based web design company Integralvision.
www.integralvision.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
Immersive, panoramic and selected still images used on Virtually Dartmoor were taken by Sphereworks Ltd, specialists in high quality photography.
www.sphereworks.co.uk (external link, opens new window)
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