Our Dartmoor Directory

Weeke Barton

Exeter

This 580 year old Grade II Listed building oozes soul and has tales to tell.

R. Hansford Worth

Plymouth

Plymouth civil engineer and geologist (1868-1950), secretary of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee and author of the Devonshire Association's stone rows series. The son of Richard Nicholls Worth.

Mark Beeson

Primate researcher and playwright whose Dartmoor fieldwork on attitudes to archaeological sites led to MED Theatre, the moor's first dedicated community theatre.

Swelltor Quarries

Princetown

A group of Dartmoor granite workings near Princetown, worked from the 1820s until 1938. Twelve unused granite corbels, cut in 1903-04 for the widening of London Bridge, still lie beside the old railway trackbed here.

Stover Canal

Teigngrace

A canal built by James Templer, linking the Haytor Granite Tramway to the tidal River Teign at Teignmouth. Granite quarried at Haytor and Holwell travelled this route, including stone for the new London Bridge completed in 1831.

High Dartmoor: Land and People

by Eric Hemery

Eric Hemery's monumental 1983 topographical and historical survey of Dartmoor, still regarded as the standard work on the moor.

Granite

by John Trevena

The third volume of Trevena's Dartmoor trilogy, following Furze the Cruel and Heather - published in 1909 and, in his own words, standing for the moor's enduring strength.

John Trevena

Pen name of Ernest George Henham (1870-1948), whose Dartmoor trilogy - Furze the Cruel, Heather and Granite - are early 20th-century novels of moorland life peopled by "strange and often grotesque characters."

The Ancient Stone Crosses of Dartmoor and its Borderland

by William Crossing

Crossing's survey of the granite waymarking crosses scattered across Dartmoor, expanded in 1902 from his original 1887 two-volume study into what he called "in great measure a new book."