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Silverton, Exeter
A charity dedicated to the study and exchange of information and ideas on all matters concerning the county of Devon, through research, recording and publication.
Exeter
Bishop of Exeter from 1258 to 1280 and the name behind the Branscombe's Loaf legend on Corn Ridge. Whether the bishop was tied to the legend long ago or only recently is not known.
Lydford
A band of outlaws said to have lived wild around Lydford Gorge in the 17th century, led by the semi-legendary Roger Rowle, part real rumour of the English Civil War era and part Robin Hood story.
Devonshire Association folklore recorder whose decades of Dartmoor fieldwork produced woodcuts, maps and a museum object alongside her written record of the moor's traditions.
John Bainbridge's 2023 novel of Dartmoor in 1817, a standalone prequel to his William Quest series, following Jonas Lyddon amid the enclosure of the moor's common land.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish-born doctor and writer, best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. In 1901 he spent a fortnight walking Dartmoor with journalist Bertram Fletcher Robinson, researching what became The Hound of the Baskervilles, the only Holmes story set on a real, named moor.
Bertram Fletcher Robinson (1870-1907) was a Devon-born journalist and editor who grew up on the edge of Dartmoor. In 1901 he told fellow writer Arthur Conan Doyle the moorland legends that became The Hound of the Baskervilles, and guided him around the moor while Doyle researched the book, which Doyle dedicated to him.
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a Sherlock Holmes novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, serialised in the Strand Magazine August 1901 to April 1902 and published as a book in March 1902. It is set on and around a fictionalised Dartmoor, drawn from a research visit Doyle made to Princetown and the moor in 1901 with journalist Bertram Fletcher Robinson, to whom the book is dedicated.
A father-and-son podcast exploring the supernatural stories and folklore of Dartmoor.
