Chair of the Dartmoor Society and traditional unaccompanied singer, a founder member of the Dartmoor Folk Festival who worked closely with Bob Cann.
South Zeal
An annual family folk festival in South Zeal celebrating Dartmoor's traditional music, dance, song and crafts, founded in 1978 by Bob Cann.
Traditional Dartmoor melodeon player and step dancer who founded the Dartmoor Folk Festival in 1978.
Chairman of the Dartmoor Preservation Association, leading its work on access and archaeology and its guided walks programme.
Director of Moorland Guides and co-host of the Dartmoor Outdoor Festival, who also produces the Voices of Dartmoor podcast.
Former Tavistock police officer, MBE, and founder of Moorland Guides and the Dartmoor Walking Festival, who has written more than 20 books on Dartmoor's history and heritage.
The Dartmoor topographer and historian whose 1983 High Dartmoor: Land and People remains the standard reference work on the moor, its history and its people.
Devon novelist and non-fiction author whose fiction and Swim, Walk & History guides are inspired by Dartmoor's legends and rivers.
Storyteller, poet and photographic artist based on Dartmoor, telling traditional tales of the land in the oral storytelling tradition; author of Pixie Folk Tales.
Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 152, 1900“And often have I seen the moor so chequered and broken with light and shade, that it required no stretch of the imagination to convert many a weather-beaten tor into the towers and ruined walls of a feudal castle. Nay, even human forms, gigantic in their dimensions, sometimes seemed to start wildly ...”
Also on Our DartmoorCairn with a cist near Langcombe Brook — Bronze Age burial monument with a stone burial chamber, situated south of Langcombe Brook on Dartmoor.
