Set in the church-town of Bridestowe, beneath the moor's northern wing near Okehampton: the story of Orlando Wolferstan and his neighbours through the turning year.
By Wistman's Wood and the West Dart, the lonely warrener Nicholas Edgecombe and the dissolute young farmer Timothy Oldreive fall into conflict over the beautiful Hannah Bradridge.
After twenty years of marriage, farmer Anthony Redvers takes up with another woman; his wife Ann and their grown sons Jesse and Michael are caught in the reckoning.
A gathering of Dartmoor tales: moor-folk, their trades and their troubles, in a dozen short stories.
The three ageing Baskerville brothers, cheerful farmer Vivian, austere and religious Humphrey, and the popular publican Nathan, and the younger generation rising around them.
David Bowden's devoted sister Rhoda cannot abide his wife Margaret; her jealousy slowly poisons the household, with the easygoing Bartley Crocker drawn in.
Daniel Brendon, devout and hard-working, comes to Ruddyford Farm in the wild Tavy country and marries Sarah Jane Friend, daughter of a peat-works man, setting up a bitter rivalry with the calculating Jarratt Weekes.
Set around the famous fair at Widecombe-in-the-Moor, a broad, comic picture of a moor community.
Baring-Gould's great survey of the moor: its tors and antiquities, tin-workings, rivers, weather, legends and people, written by the squire-parson of Lew Trenchard who knew Dartmoor as few did.
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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…
