From the blog of Dartmoor Photographer Glavind Strachan (A Dartmoor Story about a lowly Tavistock resident in the Nineteenth Century)   Dolvin Road Cemetery - resting place of Mary Maria Colling (location of burial...

Exercise Baskerville by Clive Darke In 1967 there were eighteen deaths from exposure (hypothermia) and frostbite on British hills and mountains. Dartmoor had its share. In April that year there was still snow on High Willhays. Junior Private Barry Jones died of exposure, aged just...

In the Footsteps of Francis Drake by David J. Hawkings As a boy growing up in Plymouth, I often found myself looking to the north-east, where the hills of Dartmoor rose, sometimes purple in the sunshine or wreathed in cloud, grey, mysterious and beckoning. Needless to say, as soon as I could, I...

The Loneliest Place by George Wall A solitary hawthorn twists improbably out of the earth. The silhouette of a distant tor sits aloof above a trail of lifeless scree. A meadow pipit squeaks anxiously. Dartmoor is the loneliest place I know... And I love it. Filming my podcasts which aren’t...

Prehistoric Dartmoor by Andrew McAuley Most visitors to Dartmoor National Park are aware that it is a landscape full of human history. The most impressive hut circles and stone rows cause many walkers to pause in wonder at these relics which, by the lack of knowledge we have in them, emanate a...