The moor's old customs and traditions: pony drifts, swaling, beating the bounds, wassailing and the ceremonies of its old towns.
The old parish custom of walking the boundary every few years so that many people know where it runs. Okehampton did it on Ascension Day, known as Spurling Day.
Think Morris dancing is all bells and hankies and tea with the vicar? Think again. Welcome to the Dark Side of Folk
Walkhampton, Yelverton
A family-based, mixed border morris side.
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.
The autumn round-up of Dartmoor ponies: commoners gather their herds from the moor into a pound, sort them, and wean and sell the foals.
Lustleigh
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
'Lydford Law' was a saying for quick, rough justice, tied to the stannary court and prison in Lydford Castle.
Swaling is the old practice of burning tall, overgrown heather, gorse and rank grass in winter to improve the grazing and cut the risk of accidental wildfire.
Sunset from Lints Tor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“In 1772 an Act was passed for the construction of a road for wheel traffic across the moor from Moretonhampstead to Tavistock. But for this road Dartmoor Prison would never have existed.”
Also on Our DartmoorOld Farm (ruins) — Ruins of a moorland farmhouse built around 1871 by John Hooper near Nun's Cross, south of Princetown.
