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Sophie Pierce
Her memoir, The Green Hill: Letters to a Son, was published in 2023 after the sudden and unexpected death of her son Felix in 2017. Sophie has also published five wild swimming guides with her friend Matt Newbury, and in 2025 co-authored Rock Idols: A Guide to Dartmoor in 28 Tors with her husband, artist Alex Murdin.
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- Rock Idols: A Guide to Dartmoor in 28 Tors (2025)
- The Green Hill: Letters to a Son (2023)
- Wild Swimming Walks: Dartmoor and South Devon (2016)
- Wild Swimming Walks: Dorset & East Devon (2022)
- Wild Swimming Walks: Exmoor & North Devon (2024)
- Wild Swimming Torbay (2023)
She is co-founder of the Dartmoor Tors Festival, which first took place in May 2025.
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“The atmosphere of Dartmoor deserves particular notice ; it is at all times humid. The rain, which frequently falls, almost without intermission, for many weeks together, is generally small; and resembles more a Scotch mist than a shower.”
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