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Folklorist, author and storyteller specialising in Dartmoor folklore, the Wild Hunt and Black Dog legends, available for talks, signings and guided walks.
After a 20 year global business career living in New York, Hong Kong, London, and Australia, Emma returned home to Devon to recover her health. Reconnecting with her family’s love and guiding history on Dartmoor, she qualified as a Hill & Moorland Leader (HML) and founded ‘Dartmoor’s Daughter’.
It all started back in the summer of 2017 when, from memory, I came across the website ‘Moorland Walker’, a blog by Paul Buck. Now, I have always loved walking on Dartmoor since a very young age and have seen many other websites on the subject, however this one hooked me.
For many years Sophie was a reporter for BBC South West, covering all manner of stories for the radio and TV. She left in 2020 and now writes full time.
Paul Rendell was born in Plymouth and became enthusiastic about Dartmoor from an early age after being taken on numerous outings by his parents. Burrator and Sheepstor were two of the favourite places they went as a family.Very early he found he was fascinated by the moor's industrial archaeology and its wildlife. Because he was dyslexic his schooldays were not very easy for him but he struggled on until school leaving age.