Tavistock
The 1883 Boehm bronze statue of Sir Francis Drake on Plymouth Road, Tavistock, a Grade II listed monument funded by the 9th Duke of Bedford.
Postbridge, Chagford
A mysterious stone beehive dwelling, its circular walls still standing on open moorland after over a thousand years.
Southbrook Farm, Bovey Tracey
A modest memorial to the visionary who dedicated his life to protecting Britain's woodlands and wild places.
Buckfastleigh
A modest stone memorial to William Crossing, the Victorian antiquary who mapped and documented Dartmoor with meticulous devotion.
“Nor can imagination body forth a place more congenial to the sights and sounds of dark and blood-stained rites, than this dreary, narrow, rock-strewn glen of the Dart.”
Which book is this from?
Cudlipptown, Tavistock
A crumbling stone farmhouse deep on Dartmoor, slowly surrendering to weather and time.
Heathfield, Bovey Tracey
Heathland between Bovey Tracey and Heathfield where Cromwell broke a Royalist cavalry force in January 1646. Now a Devon Wildlife Trust nature reserve.
Arms tor hawthorn. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Dwellers in the hilly parts of Devon, on Dartmoor and Exmoor, and in the villages bordering upon them, are as deeply imbued with faith in witches, as their forefathers were in the days when Alfred was king.”
Also on Our DartmoorHannah Durdin — Director of Moorland Guides and co-host of the Dartmoor Outdoor Festival, who also produces the Voices of Dartmoor podcast.
