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Widecombe-in-the-Moor
Widecombe Fair is run entirely by volunteers to raise money for local good causes, in a sheltered valley on the east side of Dartmoor, on the second Tuesday of September. It shares its name with the folk song that features Uncle Tom Cobley.
Tavistock
Tavistock's Goose Fair, held in the town centre on the second Wednesday of October. It began as a Michaelmas fair in the early 12th century and is run by Tavistock Town Council.
Manaton
A traditional summer fair on the church field and village green at Manaton, in the heart of Dartmoor, raising money for St Winifred's Church and local good causes.
Lustleigh
The Lustleigh Village Show is a family day out at a traditional country show in the Dartmoor National Park, held every August Bank Holiday Monday since 1887.
Scorhill - Cool Angle. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“I was going to a little world, isolated, away from the madding crowd, and with miles of wild moorland, and rushing streams, which whispered, the former of snipe, plover and woodcock, the latter of salmon and trout.”
Also on Our DartmoorTwo enclosures near Eylesbarrow — Bronze Age enclosures and part of an ancient field boundary system on the western moor.
