Dartmoor

Dartmoor, a rural town, is on the Princes Highway about midway between Heywood and the South Australia border. It is situated on the Glenelg River.

The Dartmoor area was explored by the New South Wales Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell, during his Australia Felix expedition in 1836. Mitchell established a camp, named Fort O’Hare after his commanding officer in the Peninsular War (1808-14), upstream of Dartmoor. From there he explored the Glenelg River downstream to the coast.