In partnership with the Dartmoor Trust, and funded by the Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund and English Heritage, the Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA) has created an innovative new website.

Virtually Dartmoor provides a unique opportunity to explore aspects of Dartmoor's heritage through immersive multi-media interactive tours, combining 360° panoramic images, the spoken word, and archive photographs.  The site will be launched with an interactive visit to Higher Uppacott - a Grade I listed medieval longhouse, owned by the DNPA since 1979 - but will eventually include visits to a number of other locations, including Princetown, Haytor and Bellever. 

Becky Newell, Oral History Project Officer, Dartmoor National Park Authority said:

'This distinctive new website was born out of the Authority's "Moor Memories" oral history project which has identified strong links between people and places on the moor; we have found that recorded memories, combined with photographic images, can create a very  powerful means of bringing a place to life.  Higher Uppacott is one of the few remaining longhouses, a medieval farmhouse which accommodates both people and cattle, with its 14 th century shippon, or cattle shelter, still intact.

The interactive visit to Higher Uppacott allows you to experience the house in the company of those who have an intimate knowledge of it, combining the memories of people who knew the house in the early part of the 20th century with archive photographs, contemporary 360° images of the house, and the voices of a variety of experts, who explain its historic development and special features.

Virtually Dartmoor was designed and built by Ashburton based web design company Integralvision.