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A free guide to Dartmoor's prehistoric settlements, stone rows, circles and cists, with walks planned round public transport, site tables, GPS data and scans of the old exploration reports.
Postbridge
At Wild Calm Dartmoor, we believe that nature has a remarkable ability to restore, inspire and ground us. Through mindful walking, silent walks and wild camping on Dartmoor, we invite you to slow your pace, notice the beauty in the landscape, and reconnect with yourself and the world around you.
Dartmoor CAM is a very large illustrated record of walking on Dartmoor: 503 walks and over 24,000 photographs recorded by Keith Ryan, with GPS track maps, labelled place-markers and notes on what each place is.
Walkhampton, Yelverton
A small separate granite outcrop of 395 m about 100 m below Sharpitor near Burrator, on land bought by the Dartmoor Preservation Association in 1984.
“Oh, Miss, how can I ever thank 'ee? I bathed my arms same as you told me at bedtime and got right in bed and slept till nine o'clock this morning without moving. Us haven't had such a night for months.”
Who wrote this?
Peter Tavy, Tavistock
A small, ruined tor of metamorphic rock on Arthur Hill about 300 m north of the Langstone menhir, not the conical Hare Tor on the Willsworthy range.
Cadover, Shaugh Prior
Stone road bridge over the River Plym on Dartmoor's south-west edge, with a free National Trust car park and the usual start for walks to Trowlesworthy Tor.
The Dartmoor Letterboxing Club's website: the catalogue of letterbox clues, the 100 Club for anyone who has found 100 boxes, the twice-yearly Letterbox Meet and the code of conduct.
Letterboxing began on Dartmoor: walkers hide a weatherproof box with a visitors' book and a rubber stamp, and others find it by clues and stamp their own book.
Okehampton
Each spring teams of six young people walk between ten Dartmoor tors, carrying everything they need, in a navigation challenge run by the British Army since 1960.
Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 64, 1900“'Tis my legs. They bain't contented, like. 'Tis no odds where I put 'em, they wun't bide contented, no place.”
Also on Our DartmoorSquare enclosure near Meacombe — An almost square enclosure, 20 m by 20 m, terraced into a south-west-facing slope near Meacombe.
