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Chair of the Dartmoor Society and traditional unaccompanied singer, a founder member of the Dartmoor Folk Festival who worked closely with Bob Cann.
Bob Cann's Pixie Band playing live for dancing at Victory Hall, South Zeal, in 1988, with Bob calling the dances.
Bob Cann's classic 1975 solo album of Dartmoor hornpipes, jigs and waltzes, recorded at South Tawton and released by Topic Records.
Traditional Dartmoor melodeon player and step dancer who founded the Dartmoor Folk Festival in 1978.
Worth's 1875 anthology of West Country poetry, folk songs and traditional verses drawn from writers across five centuries.
The folk songs of Devon and Cornwall, collected from the mouths of the old singers by Baring-Gould and Fleetwood Sheppard.
The squire-parson of Lew Trenchard and prolific chronicler of Dartmoor and Devon (1834-1924).
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“In the howling wilderness about Cranmere Pool, where are no traces of human habitation, there lie the dead.”
Also on Our DartmoorDr Thomas Blackall — Thomas Blackall (1814 to 1899), an Exeter physician who bought Spitchwick in 1867, rebuilt the house and had the carriage drive made that still carries his name.
