Dartmoor People

Jim Causley

Devon folk singer and songwriter whose album Songs of Dartmoor is a musical tour of the moor, from ballads collected by Sabine Baring-Gould to modern compositions.

John Howell

Chairman of the Dartmoor Preservation Association, leading its work on access and archaeology and its guided walks programme.

John Trevena

Pen name of Ernest George Henham (1870-1948), whose Dartmoor trilogy - Furze the Cruel, Heather and Granite - are early 20th-century novels of moorland life peopled by "strange and often grotesque characters."

Kristy Turner

Okehampton

Museum Manager and Curator at the Museum of Dartmoor Life in Okehampton, leading the museum with energy and community focus.

Lisa Schneidau

Storyteller, author and folklorist living on the wild edge of Dartmoor, using traditional oral storytelling to explore our relationship with nature and folklore.

Lucinda Guy

Radio artist and researcher who founded Skylark, a continuous FM sound installation broadcasting Dartmoor's landscape, voices and wildlife since 2020.

Mark Beeson

Primate researcher and playwright whose Dartmoor fieldwork on attitudes to archaeological sites led to MED Theatre, the moor's first dedicated community theatre.

Mary Maria Colling

Tavistock

Tavistock poet and domestic servant (1804-1853) whose verse was discovered and published with the help of her employer, the author Anna Eliza Bray.

Max Piper

It all started back in the summer of 2017 when, from memory, I came across the website ‘Moorland Walker’, a blog by Paul Buck. Now, I have always loved walking on Dartmoor since a very young age and have seen many other websites on the subject, however this one hooked me.