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.
The Dartmoor topographer and historian whose 1983 High Dartmoor: Land and People remains the standard reference work on the moor, its history and its people.
Yelverton
Dartmoor author (1872-1909) of The Magic Mist, and other Dartmoor Legends, published at Christmas 1900, who also wrote children's books, magazine stories and verse from Plymouth, Horrabridge and Yelverton.
Writer and editor based in South Devon, exploring narrative, nature and the stories we tell ourselves.
Which Dartmoor place has also been known as "the Plymouth Leat"?
Environmental writer and campaigner behind the Who Owns England? project, mapping land ownership across the country including a detailed study of who owns Dartmoor.
Folklorist, author and storyteller specialising in Dartmoor folklore, the Wild Hunt and Black Dog legends, available for talks, signings and guided walks.
Helen is a psychology graduate. teacher and hypnotherapist. She lives in Devon and spends her time exploring and photographing the ancient and enigmatic sites of Dartmoor.
Storyteller, poet and photographic artist based on Dartmoor, telling traditional tales of the land in the oral storytelling tradition; author of Pixie Folk Tales.
Geographer and former Dartmoor National Park Officer, later chairman of the Dartmoor Commoners' Council; author of Dartmoor in the New Naturalist series.
Author of the five-volume Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities (Devon Books, 1991 to 1997) and first recipient of the Dartmoor Society Award, in 1998.
