Our Dartmoor Directory

Manaton Parish Council

Manaton, Newton Abbot

The parish council for Manaton, a small Dartmoor village near Becky Falls and Haytor.

Rebecca Beattie

Bere Alston

Dartmoor-raised author, Wiccan priestess and witchcraft teacher whose books explore nature, magic and the wheel of the year.

Helen JR Bruce

Folklorist, author and storyteller specialising in Dartmoor folklore, the Wild Hunt and Black Dog legends, available for talks, signings and guided walks.

Promiseland Poetry

Widecombe-in-the-Moor

Dartmoor poetry and collaborative art celebrating the landscape through verse and photography.

Ted Hughes Memorial Stone

Okehampton

A simple stone memorial to poet Ted Hughes on the open moor, marking his deep connection to Dartmoor's wild landscape.

The Church House

Holne, Newton Abbot

Family run pub with accommodation on Dartmoor in Devon

Kate Gold

Kate's work is heavily influenced by the Dartmoor Landscape.

Mary Maria Colling

Tavistock

Tavistock poet and domestic servant (1804-1853) whose verse was discovered and published with the help of her employer, the author Anna Eliza Bray.

Doe Tor Farm

Lydford

Ruined Dartmoor farmstead below Doe Tor, occupied for over 200 years until the mid-1950s, with a genuine literary connection to Sabine Baring-Gould and an antiquarian puzzle over one of its granite stones.