Bodies that manage, govern or represent Dartmoor
Walkhampton, Yelverton
Walkhampton's parish council, delivered jointly with Meavy, Sheepstor and Dousland through Burrator Parish Council.
Tavistock
The district council for western and north-western Dartmoor, including Tavistock, Okehampton and Princetown.
Whitchurch, Tavistock
The council for Whitchurch parish near Tavistock, run jointly with Sampford Spiney as Plasterdown Grouped Parish Council.
Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Newton Abbot
The parish council for Widecombe-in-the-Moor, home of the famous Widecombe Fair, deep in Dartmoor.
Princetown, Yelverton
The Duchy of Cornwall is on a mission to become a world-leading impact organisation, using its assets and convening power to deliver resilient, vibrant, and prosperous communities and ecosystems - now, and into the future. We create positive outcomes for people, nature, and communities, as well as returns that are reinvested with purpose.
Princetown
The former location of the National Park Visitor Centre, Princetown
by Paul Harris - Glavind Strachan Photography Our Dartmoor started life as a zine: an attempt to bring together people…
A Vast Solitude by Paul Harris - Glavind Strachan Photography A review of "An Exploration of Dartmoor and its…
Will the real Mary Maria Colling please stand up? (A Dartmoor Story about a lowly Tavistock resident in the Nineteenth…
Bowerman’s Nose: Legends are like memes in slow motion by Paul Harris - Glavind Strachan Photography The universe is…
Exercise Baskerville by Clive Darke In 1967 there were eighteen deaths from exposure (hypothermia) and frostbite on…
In the Footsteps of Francis Drake by David J. Hawkings As a boy growing up in Plymouth, I often found myself looking to…
The Loneliest Place by George Wall A solitary hawthorn twists improbably out of the earth. The silhouette of a distant…
Prehistoric Dartmoor by Andrew McAuley Most visitors to Dartmoor National Park are aware that it is a landscape full of…
