Lydford, Okehampton
Wheal Mary Emma was a small tin mine beside the River Lyd below Brat Tor, worked from 1849 and named for its owner's ten-year-old daughter. Its capped shaft, dressing floor, smithy and office ruins survive on the slope above the river, close to the Captain Hunter Memorial.
Dartmoor CAM is a very large illustrated record of walking on Dartmoor: 503 walks and over 24,000 photographs recorded by Keith Ryan, with GPS track maps, labelled place-markers and notes on what each place is.
Lydford, Okehampton
A plaque on the Black Rock above the River Lyd near Lydford, in memory of Captain Nigel Hunter MC and Bar, Royal Engineers, killed in action in France on 25 March 1918, aged 23.
Lydford, Okehampton
A small waterfall and dark pool on the River Lyd below Brat Tor and High Down, beside the Black Rock and the Captain Hunter Memorial. Locals call it the Witches Pool.
Princetown, Yelverton
Skylark is a unique FM radio station for Dartmoor, on air since 2020 on 105.8 FM from Princetown and 107.6 FM from Holne: a continuous, ever-changing sound collage of oral histories, new music and the voices and noises of Dartmoor's people, animals, plants and weather.
Author of the five-volume Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities (Devon Books, 1991 to 1997) and first recipient of the Dartmoor Society Award, in 1998.
Ashburton
The manor and estate of Spitchwick on the Dart above Poundsgate: a manor named in Domesday Book that gave its name to a medieval family, the Dartmoor house of the lawyer John Dunning, and for a century the subject of Chancery suits and, in 1849, a siege.
Ashburton
A carriage drive of about two miles cut round the hillside above the Dart by Dr Thomas Blackall of Spitchwick, running from Newbridge Hill past Aish Tor and Mel Tor to Bel Tor Corner.
Ashburton
Two Grade II listed lodge buildings of the Spitchwick estate: the Higher Lodge, late 19th century, and the Lower Lodges, a pair of about 1800 with additions. Private homes.
