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Baring-Gould's life of Robert Stephen Hawker, the poet, antiquary and eccentric vicar of Morwenstow on the north Cornwall coast, who gave shipwrecked sailors Christian burial, revived the Harvest Festival, and wrote 'The Song of the Western Men'. A vivid portrait of a remarkable West Country parson.
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By Sabine Baring-Gould. See the Sabine Baring-Gould author page for the full list of his Dartmoor and Devon books.
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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 188, 1900“the grand open moor stretching away for miles in sight of all working outside in the garden or on the moor seems to beckon and point plainly to freedom.”
Also on Our DartmoorTwo hut circles near Roos Tor — Two stone hut circles, 4.1 m and 6.2 m across inside, terraced into a slope beside the Great Western Reave.
“...it's now rare to hear the Dartmoor dialect, songs, and stories being told in homes and pubs in the hamlets and villages.”
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