Notable individuals with strong Dartmoor connections
Devon-based entomologist specialising in Coleoptera (beetles), whose specimen records and published papers cover several Dartmoor sites, and who directed the 2024 Dartmoor Dung Beetle Survey for the Our Upland Commons project.
Photographs of the Forest and Commons - an absolutely brilliant resource filled with beautiful photographs of Dartmoor by Mike R Russell
After a 20 year global business career living in New York, Hong Kong, London, and Australia, Emma returned home to Devon to recover her health. Reconnecting with her family’s love and guiding history on Dartmoor, she qualified as a Hill & Moorland Leader (HML) and founded ‘Dartmoor’s Daughter’.
Author of Water from the Moor, a history of Plymouth's Dartmoor leats, and co-host with his son Simon of the Myths of the Moor podcast.
English author of the Dartmoor Cycle, eighteen novels of the moor (1862-1960).
The Dartmoor topographer and historian whose 1983 High Dartmoor: Land and People remains the standard reference work on the moor, its history and its people.
Director of Moorland Guides and co-host of the Dartmoor Outdoor Festival, who also produces the Voices of Dartmoor podcast.
Folklorist, author and storyteller specialising in Dartmoor folklore, the Wild Hunt and Black Dog legends, available for talks, signings and guided walks.
Storyteller, poet and photographic artist based on Dartmoor, telling traditional tales of the land in the oral storytelling tradition; author of Pixie Folk Tales.
by Paul Harris - Glavind Strachan Photography Our Dartmoor started life as a zine: an attempt to bring together people…
A Vast Solitude by Paul Harris - Glavind Strachan Photography A review of "An Exploration of Dartmoor and its…
Will the real Mary Maria Colling please stand up? (A Dartmoor Story about a lowly Tavistock resident in the Nineteenth…
Bowerman’s Nose: Legends are like memes in slow motion by Paul Harris - Glavind Strachan Photography The universe is…
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…
