Our Dartmoor Directory

Dumnonia

by Jim Causley

Jim Causley's 2011 collection of lesser-known Devon folk songs, the first in his trilogy of Devonshire song albums.

Jim Causley

Devon folk singer and songwriter whose album Songs of Dartmoor is a musical tour of the moor, from ballads collected by Sabine Baring-Gould to modern compositions.

Bill Murray

Chair of the Dartmoor Society and traditional unaccompanied singer, a founder member of the Dartmoor Folk Festival who worked closely with Bob Cann.

The West Country Garland

by Richard Nicholls Worth

Worth's 1875 anthology of West Country poetry, folk songs and traditional verses drawn from writers across five centuries.

Old Country Life

by Sabine Baring-Gould

A warm, opinionated portrait of the vanishing world of the English country house, squire, parson and village, much of it from his own Lew Trenchard.

Songs of the West

by Sabine Baring-Gould

The folk songs of Devon and Cornwall, collected from the mouths of the old singers by Baring-Gould and Fleetwood Sheppard.

Widecombe-in-the-Moor Parish Council

Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Newton Abbot

The parish council for Widecombe-in-the-Moor, home of the famous Widecombe Fair, deep in Dartmoor.