Dartmoor People

Adrian Partridge

Mountain Leader-qualified Dartmoor guide with over 45 years of walking the moor, specialising in longer walks with an archaeological focus.

Alan Endacott - Archaeologist

Information on Alan Endacott's research into the Prehistoric Ritual/Ceremonial Landscapes of Northern Dartmoor, including the Sittaford Stone Circle and newly discovered Metheral Circle.

Alex Murdin

Artist and curator whose recent work focuses on the geology and stone culture of Dartmoor, where he lives; co-author of Rock Idols: A Guide to Dartmoor in 28 Tors.

Anna Eliza Bray

Victorian author (1790-1883) who lived in Tavistock and wrote one of the earliest full accounts of Dartmoor's folklore and antiquities, in a series of letters to the poet Robert Southey.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish-born doctor and writer, best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. In 1901 he spent a fortnight walking Dartmoor with journalist Bertram Fletcher Robinson, researching what became The Hound of the Baskervilles, the only Holmes story set on a real, named moor.

Benjamin Gayer

Okehampton

Real 17th-century mayor of Okehampton whose misappropriation of a sailors' ransom fund grew, over five Victorian retellings, into the "Benjie Geare" devil legend of Cranmere Pool.

Bertram Fletcher Robinson

Bertram Fletcher Robinson (1870-1907) was a Devon-born journalist and editor who grew up on the edge of Dartmoor. In 1901 he told fellow writer Arthur Conan Doyle the moorland legends that became The Hound of the Baskervilles, and guided him around the moor while Doyle researched the book, which Doyle dedicated to him.

Bill Murray

Chair of the Dartmoor Society and traditional unaccompanied singer, a founder member of the Dartmoor Folk Festival who worked closely with Bob Cann.

Bob Cann

Traditional Dartmoor melodeon player and step dancer who founded the Dartmoor Folk Festival in 1978.