Artists, writers and activists connected to Dartmoor today
Mountain Leader-qualified Dartmoor guide with over 45 years of walking the moor, specialising in longer walks with an archaeological focus.
What is the earliest known written record of the Childe the Hunter legend?
Information on Alan Endacott's research into the Prehistoric Ritual/Ceremonial Landscapes of Northern Dartmoor, including the Sittaford Stone Circle and newly discovered Metheral Circle.
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.
Radio artist and researcher who founded Skylark, a continuous FM sound installation broadcasting Dartmoor's landscape, voices and wildlife since 2020.
Primate researcher and playwright whose Dartmoor fieldwork on attitudes to archaeological sites led to MED Theatre, the moor's first dedicated community theatre.
Birmingham
Bob first experienced VR in 1987, at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, during a major space telerobotics project for the European Space Agency.
Retired solicitor and moth researcher whose decades of work on the life histories of small moths led to a species, Ectoedemia heckfordi, being named after him.
Buckland Monachorum, Yelverton
Folk singer and fiddler from Buckland Monachorum. His Mercury-nominated 2004 album Kitty Jay retold the legend of Jay's Grave on Dartmoor.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“throughout the winter it is quite a different thing ; in the darkness, fog, and often snow, there is not much to admire in the files of spectral convicts marching across the yards into Chapel.”
Also on Our DartmoorGreen Tor — A low-lying granite tor with flat rocks protruding from the slopes of Amicombe Hill, near the Rattle Brook.
