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A Cheap and Cheeky Guide to Birdwatching
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A Cheap and Cheeky Guide to Birdwatching

by George Wall

Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of birding! A fun, informative guide to nervous twitchers, unforgettable moments, and, of course, birds.

A Dartmoor Country Dance Party
Recordings & Music

A Dartmoor Country Dance Party

by Bob Cann

Bob Cann's Pixie Band playing live for dancing at Victory Hall, South Zeal, in 1988, with Bob calling the dances.

A Dartmoor Galahad
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A Dartmoor Galahad

by Beatrice Chase

A book by Beatrice Chase, published in London by Longmans, Green in 1923.

A Dartmoor Village
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A Dartmoor Village

by Eden Phillpotts

A late sequence of poems drawn from the life of a single Dartmoor village, from one who had watched the moor for half a century.

A Hundred Years on Dartmoor
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A Hundred Years on Dartmoor

by William Crossing

Historical notices of Dartmoor Forest during the nineteenth century, first collected into book form in 1901 from a newspaper series; the free scan available online is the 1902 fifth edition.

A Moorland Hanging
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A Moorland Hanging

by Michael Jecks

Third Knights Templar mystery. Simon Puttock and Sir Baldwin Furnshill investigate the hanging of a former serf who has staked a tin-mining claim on Dartmoor.

A Photographic Friendship
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A Photographic Friendship

by Chris Chapman

James Ravilious and Chris Chapman: paired photographs of North Devon and Dartmoor from the 1970s onward, with a conversation between Chapman and Ella Ravilious and an essay by Mark Haworth-Booth.

A Pilgrimage to Dartmoor's Crosses
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A Pilgrimage to Dartmoor's Crosses

by Tim Sandles

A guide to finding the ancient stone crosses of Dartmoor, with OS grid references, a short description of each and the author's own drawings.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“There can be no sameness in a landscape of tors when every tor changes its features according to the point of view from which you look at it.”

Also on Our DartmoorHut circle settlement, Horn's Cross — A hut circle settlement and a cairn on Holne Ridge above the O Brook: an agglomerated enclosure of two parts and three huts, cut by two tinners' leats.