Fiction, non-fiction and poetry with Dartmoor themes
Our Dartmoor lists 20 authors and writers on and around Dartmoor.
Use the map or the list below to see where each one is.
Chagford
Illustrator and film designer Alan Lee moved to Chagford in 1975. Kate Greenaway Medal and an Oscar winner, known for his Tolkien art and the book Faeries.
Artist and curator whose recent work focuses on the geology and stone culture of Dartmoor, where he lives; co-author of Rock Idols: A Guide to Dartmoor in 28 Tors.
Archaeologist whose research showed that Dartmoor's reaves are prehistoric land divisions; author of The Dartmoor Reaves.
Widecombe-in-the-Moor
Beatrice Chase was the pen name of Olive Katharine Parr (1874-1955), a novelist and photographer who lived at Venton, near Widecombe-in-the-Moor, and wrote many books on Dartmoor.
Dartmoor author and editor of William Crossing's guides, whose own books include Dartmoor Artists (2002), the Walks for Motorists Dartmoor guide and the posthumous Dartmoor, New Horizons (2025).
A Dartmoor fact about Avon Dam Reservoir
Throwleigh
Documentary photographer born in Wigan in 1952, who moved to Dartmoor in 1975 and has photographed hill farming and village life there for fifty years. Dartmoor Society Award 2008.
West Country journalist and historian (born 1916) who edited the multi-author survey Dartmoor: A New Study (1970) and wrote the 1976 David & Charles volume Dartmoor.
Author of Water from the Moor, a history of Plymouth's Dartmoor leats, and co-host with his son Simon of the Myths of the Moor podcast.
Tavistock
Vicar of Tavistock and curate of Brent Tor from 1812 to 1857, husband of Anna Eliza Bray. His Dartmoor journals appear in her 1836 Tamar and Tavy book.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“It was already dusk; dark mist wreaths moved upon the Moor, and oncoming night winds sighed of rain.”
Also on Our DartmoorLittle Hound Tor — A small granite outcrop below the summit of Little Whit Hill. Its name goes back to the 1240 forest bound Parva Hundetorre, though which hill that meant is disputed.
