The moor's annual fairs, agricultural shows, village shows, festivals and revels: when they happen, where, and what is on.
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.
Chagford
Chagford's annual agricultural show, held on a Thursday in the middle of August (Thursday 20 August in 2026, Thursday 19 August in 2027).
South Zeal
An annual family folk festival in South Zeal celebrating Dartmoor's traditional music, dance, song and crafts, founded in 1978 by Bob Cann.
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.
Lustleigh
The Lustleigh Village Show is a family day out at a traditional country show in the Dartmoor National Park, held every August Bank Holiday Monday since 1887.
Manaton
A traditional summer fair on the church field and village green at Manaton, in the heart of Dartmoor, raising money for St Winifred's Church and local good causes.
Okehampton
A traditional agricultural show at Stoney Park Showground, Okehampton, on the northern edge of Dartmoor National Park, held on a Thursday in mid-August.
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.
Crow at scorhill stone circle. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Tincombe Lane is all uphill / Or downhill, as you take it; / You tumble up, and crack your crown, / Or tumble down and break it.”
Also on Our DartmoorHut circle near Ger Tor — Bronze Age stone hut circle on the moors north-east of Ger Tor, a scheduled monument and surviving trace of ancient settlement.
