The historic packhorse bridge at Postbridge used by pack horses before the coming of the Moretonhampsted Turnpike in the late 18th Century. It is always a popular location for visitors.
Princetown Square on August 22, 1981. Behind my mother and grandmother walking towards the camera can be seen on the extreme left Lord's Restaurant, in the back ground the now closed Devil's Elbow Hotel. To the right back ground is the Plume of Feathers an 18th Century coaching inn on the cross more Turnpike. The grey - blue building is the former Duchy Hotel - in 1981 it was the Prison Officers' Mess for the nearby HM Prison Dartmoor. Today it is the Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre.
The Plume of Feathers is an old coaching inn on the Yelverton to Moretonhampstead Turnpike now the B3212, It was completed in 1785 and is one of Princetown’s oldest buildings. Seen here in 1981 before the building was refurbished and its slate hung exterior restored.
