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John Herring, his marriage to the delicate Mirelle, and the rough rustic world of the West Country around them.
The squire-parson of Lew Trenchard and prolific chronicler of Dartmoor and Devon (1834-1924).
Eldad Guavas, a Dartmoor tinner, falls foul of the harsh Stannary law for possessing gold reserved to the Crown.
The three ageing Baskerville brothers, cheerful farmer Vivian, austere and religious Humphrey, and the popular publican Nathan, and the younger generation rising around them.
At Hartland Farm above Postbridge on the East Dart, Philip Ouldsbroom, a farmer of forty just come into his land, weds the young moor-woman Unity Crymes.
On the southern moor about Holne, the story of Alison and the farming folk around her.
In the ancient oak woods of Yarner on the moor's eastern edge above Bovey Tracey: Timothy Snow, Drusilla, and Audrey Redstone, a story of the woodland and the people who work it.
After twenty years of marriage, farmer Anthony Redvers takes up with another woman; his wife Ann and their grown sons Jesse and Michael are caught in the reckoning.
By Wistman's Wood and the West Dart, the lonely warrener Nicholas Edgecombe and the dissolute young farmer Timothy Oldreive fall into conflict over the beautiful Hannah Bradridge.
