Okehampton
A traditional agricultural show at Stoney Park Showground, Okehampton, on the northern edge of Dartmoor National Park, held on a Thursday in mid-August.
Chagford
Chagford's annual agricultural show, held on a Thursday in the middle of August (Thursday 20 August in 2026, Thursday 19 August in 2027).
Manaton
A traditional summer fair on the church field and village green at Manaton, in the heart of Dartmoor, raising money for St Winifred's Church and local good causes.
In what year was the first letterbox placed at Cranmere Pool?
Lustleigh
The Lustleigh Village Show is a family day out at a traditional country show in the Dartmoor National Park, held every August Bank Holiday Monday since 1887.
The autumn round-up of Dartmoor ponies: commoners gather their herds from the moor into a pound, sort them, and wean and sell the foals.
Swaling is the old practice of burning tall, overgrown heather, gorse and rank grass in winter to improve the grazing and cut the risk of accidental wildfire.
The old parish custom of walking the boundary every few years so that many people know where it runs. Okehampton did it on Ascension Day, known as Spurling Day.
In 1240 the Sheriff of Devon and twelve knights walked the bounds of the royal Forest of Dartmoor, a circuit of about 50 miles, and later perambulations followed.
Wassailing is the winter custom of visiting an orchard to sing to the apple trees, make a noise to drive off evil spirits, and bless them for a good crop.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“They would always time their departure from Princetown so as to clear the pixie-haunted moor before dark, and from the upper windows of the prison one might watch them winding the distant mule tracks sinuously like torpid snakes.”
Also on Our DartmoorCairn near Brisworthy Plantation — A grassy cairn 12.5 m across and 0.4 m high with a central hollow, immediately south of the Eylesbarrow reave, near a stone row, other cairns and an enclosure.
