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.
English author, countryside access campaigner and former CEO of the Dartmoor Preservation Association, with around thirty books on British topography.
Somerset-born author of Seeley guides to Dartmoor, Exmoor and the rivers of Devon, 1880s-1890s.
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Vicar of Totnes and of Berry Pomeroy (1643 to 1723), author of The Worthies of Devon.
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Ashburton-born clergyman and artist (1752-1821) whose illustrated journals of Georgian Devon began with a tour across Dartmoor in 1789.
Storyteller, author and folklorist living on the wild edge of Dartmoor, using traditional oral storytelling to explore our relationship with nature and folklore.
Mountford John Byrde Baddeley (1843-1906), guidebook writer who edited the Thorough Guide series with C. S. Ward.
It all started back in the summer of 2017 when, from memory, I came across the website ‘Moorland Walker’, a blog by Paul Buck. Now, I have always loved walking on Dartmoor since a very young age and have seen many other websites on the subject, however this one hooked me.
Historical crime novelist who lives on northern Dartmoor. His Knights Templar mystery series follows Sir Baldwin Furnshill and Simon Puttock, bailiff of Lydford Castle, and several books are set in Dartmoor parishes.
Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 84, 1900“Look here, my good fellows," he cried. "I know who you be. You be them two runaways from Princetown, and I'll give you all I've got, clothes and all, if only you won't murder me.”
Also on Our DartmoorMilestone, SX 529 752 — A roadside milestone marking distance on the old routes crossing Dartmoor's high moorland.
