Wildlife, geology and ecology — groups and resources
South Brent
Brent Birders are a group of wildlife enthusiasts living in and around South Brent, who are interested in recording and encouraging an interest in local birds and other wildlife.
A strategic collaboration of organisations, groups and individuals working together to restore and enhance the natural environment across Devon.
“The atmosphere of Dartmoor deserves particular notice ; it is at all times humid. The rain, which frequently falls, almost without intermission, for many weeks together, is generally small; and resembles more a Scotch mist than a shower.”
Who wrote this?
North Bovey, Moretonhampstead
A stream that rises near the Warren House Inn and runs north then east towards the River Bovey, through a valley on the north east edge of the moor.
Two rowan trees growing side by side on the slope of Oke Tor, looking out over Taw Marsh, named by Glavind Strachan Photography and recorded on Dartefacts under the same name.
Dartmeet, Princetown
A four mile stream from near the Warren House Inn south to the East Dart at Babeny, partly forming the boundary between Teignbridge and West Devon.
Two Bridges, Yelverton
A high-altitude oakwood of dwarf oaks among granite boulders in the West Dart valley near Two Bridges, now a National Nature Reserve. Visitors are asked not to enter the wood.
Gidleigh, Chagford
A short stream from Hangingstone Hill, also called the Headon River, that runs north and east to the North Teign beside the Wallabrook clapper bridge.
Plate from A Hundred Years on Dartmoor, page 45, 1901“I thought of the convict out upon the bleak, cold, shelterless moor.”
Also on Our DartmoorStalldown Row — A Bronze Age stone row stretching across open moorland, its weathered granite markers still aligned after thousands of years.
