Ashburton
Ashburton's manor court, the Court Leet, still meets each year to appoint the Portreeve, the Ale Tasters and the Bread Weighers, a custom very few towns keep.
Plymouth
Robert Hunt (1807-1887), Devonport-born mineralogist and antiquarian, who collected the legends of the West of England.
Gidleigh, Chagford
A Grade II listed footbridge over the North Teign River on Gidleigh Common: two long granite slabs side by side, held in place by iron bands.
Gidleigh, Chagford
A single-slab granite clapper bridge over the Walla Brook on Gidleigh Common, just above the brook's meeting with the North Teign River. Grade II listed.
Mountford John Byrde Baddeley (1843-1906), guidebook writer who edited the Thorough Guide series with C. S. Ward.
Guided walks and outdoor skills training on Dartmoor with Keith Lambeth, who has lived on the moor since 1992 and served 22 years with the Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team. Small groups, bespoke and private trips.
Widecombe-in-the-Moor
Beatrice Chase was the pen name of Olive Katharine Parr (1874-1955), a novelist and photographer who lived at Venton, near Widecombe-in-the-Moor, and wrote many books on Dartmoor.
Sir Basil Home Thomson (1861-1939) was a colonial administrator and prison governor, later head of the CID at Scotland Yard, who wrote The Story of Dartmoor Prison (1907).
Devon author of two books on Devon dialect, customs and folk-lore, The Peasant Speech of Devon (1892) and Nummits and Crummits (1900).
Hawthorn by the river Lyd. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“When us is married, then, mind y', Peter, I'm not going to have that silly brother of yourn in the house with me." "Indeed!" was Peter's retort; "then into my house *you* shall never come.”
Also on Our DartmoorGranite Cross — A weathered granite cross standing alone on the open moor, its origins lost to time but its presence unmistakable.
