Sophie Pierce and Matt Newbury's guide to 28 wild swimming walks across Dorset's Jurassic Coast and East Devon.
An English Heritage guide to Dartmoor's archaeology and landscape history by Sandy Gerrard, published by Batsford in 1997.
Sophie Pierce and Matt Newbury's guide to 28 wild swimming walks across Exmoor and North Devon's coast, moors and river valleys.
“The peat glowed as though it were red-hot, and night brooded on the eastern face of every hill.”
Who wrote this?
Chagford
Faeries (1978) by Brian Froud and Alan Lee, an illustrated book of British faery lore made while the two artists shared lodgings in Chagford on Dartmoor.
David & Charles Leisure and Travel Series volume on Dartmoor by Crispin Gill. 126 pages, with bibliography and index.
A father-and-son podcast exploring the supernatural stories and folklore of Dartmoor.
A descriptive 1891 account of Dartmoor's rivers, tors and prehistoric hut circles, opening with Crossing's own description of the moor as Devon's "liberal mountain urn."
Wright's 1905 illustrated tour of South Devon's towns, coast and countryside, published by Valentine and Sons of Dundee.
Eric Hemery's monumental 1983 topographical and historical survey of Dartmoor, still regarded as the standard work on the moor.
Plate from Guide to Dartmoor, page 69, 1909“I once heard a woman tell one of her daughters, in a Dartmoor cottage, " to log the child's cradle." There, thought I, is a British word ; log means to rock, hence logging, or logan stone.”
Also on Our DartmoorSt Leonard's Church — Grade I listed medieval church on Dartmoor, a working parish church with deep roots in the moor's settlement history.
