Dartmoor author and editor of William Crossing's guides, whose own books include Dartmoor Artists (2002), the Walks for Motorists Dartmoor guide and the posthumous Dartmoor, New Horizons (2025).
Mountain Leader-qualified Dartmoor guide with over 45 years of walking the moor, specialising in longer walks with an archaeological focus.
Victorian topographer and antiquary (1847-1928), the single most prolific chronicler of Dartmoor, author of the classic Guide to Dartmoor and a dozen other books on the moor.
Lydford
A welcoming guide to Lydford's village life, combining community updates and events with information about visiting, places to stay and where to eat.
A free guide to Dartmoor's prehistoric settlements, stone rows, circles and cists, with walks planned round public transport, site tables, GPS data and scans of the old exploration reports.
“The rain stopped suddenly, and the wind was hushed, except in the tops of invisible trees; and a streak of black boggy fog settled heavily.”
Which book is this from?
Peter Tavy, Tavistock
A disputed tor on the steep side of the Walkham valley: writers place the name on two different sites nearly a kilometre apart, and Crossing said there is no tor there.
Moretonhampstead
Situated in Moretonhampstead, right in the heart of Dartmoor National Park, The Horse is a special kind of Devon pub.
Former Tavistock police officer, MBE, and founder of Moorland Guides and the Dartmoor Walking Festival, who has written more than 20 books on Dartmoor's history and heritage.
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.
