Interactive Visit to Higher Uppacott
Glossary of Terms
Some of the terms used throughout this presentation may be unfamiliar. Here is an explanation of those terms:
Because of its location and the nature of its surroundings, Higher Uppacott is not routinely open to the public. However, the Dartmoor National Park Authority does arrange guided walks to the property. The guided walks programme can be found on the Authority's website , or in its free newspaper, the Dartmoor Visitor. Groups of six or more people may arrange a visit through the Authority's Guide Hire Service. Contact the Dartmoor National Parke Authority at Parke, Bovey Tracey, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ13 9JQ. Tel: 01626 832093. Email: information@dartmoor-npa.gov.uk
Here at the Dartmoor National Park Authority making sure the information on our websites is easily accessible to all is a high priority.
We have made sure this site is fully Accessible (see our Accessibility page for details) and we have introduced features within the Interactive Visit that accommodate users with visual / hearing impairment:
• the visit is primarily an audio tour and will play sequentially without the need to click anything
• all objects are captioned
• all text/captions are re sizeable
• transcripts for all audio elements are available for the hard of hearing
We have made sure this site is fully Accessible (see our Accessibility page for details) and we have introduced features within the Interactive Visit that accommodate users with visual / hearing impairment:
• the visit is primarily an audio tour and will play sequentially without the need to click anything
• all objects are captioned
• all text/captions are re sizeable
• transcripts for all audio elements are available for the hard of hearing
The Higher Uppacott visit is an interactive multimedia presentation that uses Macromedia Flash, there is also an option to use Apple Quicktime.
If you don't have these plugins you can download them from here:
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Higher Uppacott - Introduction
Welcome to the Interactive visit to Higher Uppacott
How To Use the Tour
Each space in the Higher Uppacott interactive visit may be accessed by clicking the buttons on the 3D map, or the arrows that hover adjacent to public access areas within the site. Each space will have a series of speakers associated with it. You may select any speaker, or just sit back and allow the narrative to unfold. As the speakers deliver their presentation, supporting images will appear in the presentation panel, from which you may gain access to the gallery of photographs. This will pause the presentation and give you the opportunity to peruse the images in your own time. For those users with Apple's Quicktime plugin, fully immersive 360° spherical panoramas of each space are also available.
Please leave your comments in the guest book provided.
Each space in the Higher Uppacott interactive visit may be accessed by clicking the buttons on the 3D map, or the arrows that hover adjacent to public access areas within the site. Each space will have a series of speakers associated with it. You may select any speaker, or just sit back and allow the narrative to unfold. As the speakers deliver their presentation, supporting images will appear in the presentation panel, from which you may gain access to the gallery of photographs. This will pause the presentation and give you the opportunity to peruse the images in your own time. For those users with Apple's Quicktime plugin, fully immersive 360° spherical panoramas of each space are also available.
Please leave your comments in the guest book provided.
The presentations contain a large amount of audio and many images and can take some time to load the first time you visit, so please be patient.
The Dartmoor National Park Authority has owned the Grade I listed Dartmoor longhouse, Higher Uppacott, since 1979, purchasing it with the help of a 50% grant from the Countryside Commission. A longhouse is a medieval farmhouse in which both people and cattle were accommodated. Higher Uppacott is one of the few remaining examples of this historic building type still with its original unaltered shippon (cattle shelter) - preserving and maintaining the building in its unaltered state was the prime motivation behind the purchase. In 2001 the historic wing (a separate dwelling since at least the 19th century) and adjoining outbuildings, converted in the 1970s and known as Uppacott, came onto the market. With the help of a Heritage Lottery Grant of 75% the National Park Authority was able to purchase this and thus reunite the two halves of the building.
By coincidence, one of the first people whose memories were recorded for the "Moor Memories" oral history project when it began in 2001, knew Uppacott very well; her father had been born there and not only did she have vivid memories of visiting her grandparents there as a child, she was also able to introduce us to her aunt who was born there and a number of cousins who also remembered visiting. We found these memories, along with the family's archive photographs, provided an invaluable record of life at the house during the first half of the 20th century.
In this interactive visit we have combined these memories and archive photographs with the voices of experts interpreting the historic development and features of the house and contemporary 360° panoramic photographs, so you can immerse yourself in the house and explore it in the company of those who know it well.
As part of this tour you can also visit the deserted medieval settlement at Houndtor, to look at the archeological remains of longhouses that are about a hundred years earlier than Higher Uppacott. The settlement at Houndtor was discovered in the 1950s and excavated by a local amateur archaeologist, Mrs Minter, in the 1960s. Her work established the national importance of the site and the significance of medieval archaeology on Dartmoor.
The site consists of the remains of 11 stone buildings, constructed sometime in the 13th century and abandoned about 150 or 200 years later. Four of the buildings are longhouses; others are smaller houses or outbuildings. Surrounding the settlement is an extensive field system, where cereal crops were grown and animals grazed.
Houndtor deserted medieval settlement is a scheduled monument; it is managed by the Dartmoor National Park Authority in association with English Heritage.
Presentation created - November 2005
This project is supported by:
design & development by: Integralvision