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A Seth Lakeman song from The Granite Way (2025) about Old Crockern, the Huntsman Devil of Dartmoor, who leads lost travellers across the moor.
Seth Lakeman's recording of the traditional Dartmoor ballad of Childe the Hunter, from his 2006 album Freedom Fields. Collected by Baring-Gould.
Seth Lakeman's 2004 album, recorded in a Horrabridge kitchen and nominated for the 2005 Mercury Prize. The title song tells the story of Jay's Grave.
Manaton
Seth Lakeman's song of the Dartmoor legend of Kitty Jay, the servant girl buried at the crossroads near Hound Tor. Title track of his 2004 album.
Seth Lakeman's 2025 album of West Country folklore songs, including two drawn from Dartmoor legend: The Black Fox and The Huntsman and the Moon.
Which Dartmoor tor is this?
Buckland Monachorum, Yelverton
Folk singer and fiddler from Buckland Monachorum. His Mercury-nominated 2004 album Kitty Jay retold the legend of Jay's Grave on Dartmoor.
A Seth Lakeman song from his 2025 album The Granite Way, based on the Dartmoor legend of the Black Fox as a supernatural guardian of the moor.
Think Morris dancing is all bells and hankies and tea with the vicar? Think again. Welcome to the Dark Side of Folk
Walkhampton, Yelverton
A family-based, mixed border morris side.
Plate from A Book of Dartmoor, page 214, 1900“in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors. A cold wind swept down from it and set us shivering.”
Also on Our DartmoorTwo pillow mounds near Ditsworthy Warren House — Two pillow mounds, 13.4 m and 12.3 m long, built on top of older tin streamworks in the Plym valley bottom, part of Willings Walls Warren.
