Letterboxing began on Dartmoor: walkers hide a weatherproof box with a visitors' book and a rubber stamp, and others find it by clues and stamp their own book.
The Dartmoor Letterboxing Club's website: the catalogue of letterbox clues, the 100 Club for anyone who has found 100 boxes, the twice-yearly Letterbox Meet and the code of conduct.
Faeries (1978) by Brian Froud and Alan Lee, an illustrated book of British faery lore made while the two artists shared lodgings in Chagford on Dartmoor.
Every May the children of Lustleigh elect a May Queen, who is crowned on a granite throne in the Town Orchard, with maypole dancing and morris dancing. Cecil Torr revived it in 1905.
'Lydford Law' was a saying for quick, rough justice, tied to the stannary court and prison in Lydford Castle.
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