Recreation and activities on and around the moor
Okehampton
The South West's deepest river gorge near Tavistock, featuring a dramatic 30m waterfall and riverside walking trails.
Lustleigh, Bovey Tracey
A weathered stone monument marking a significant point on the open Dartmoor landscape, rich with local history and mystery.
From the complete beginner to the serious Catfish or Specimen Carp angler.
Weathered spoil heaps marking centuries of tin and copper extraction on the high moor.
Expert guided walks across Dartmoor covering navigation courses, school visits, corporate events and public walks for all ages and abilities.
Moretonhampstead
A community-run, solar-heated 25-metre open-air swimming pool open from May to September, offering general and lane swimming, aqua fit, lessons, coaching and water polo.
Bovey Tracey
National Trust property near Bovey Tracey
Okehampton
Independent cinema in Kingsbridge showing current films with flexible booking and event screenings.
Private healthcare provider with gyms, fitness classes, physiotherapy and wellbeing services across multiple locations.
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…
