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Crossing's 1888 account of rambles across Dartmoor's tors and combes, one of his earliest full-length books on the moor.
Crossing's 1905 illustrated survey of the "beauties of the lone land of Dartmoor," as its own subtitle describes it.
A 1911 collection of traditional Devon verses and metrical sayings, with Crossing's own historical notes on the stories behind them, including "Childe the Hunter" and "Snow on Dartmoor."
Crossing's masterwork: the first genuine guidebook to Dartmoor, first published in 1909 by the Western Morning News and still regarded as the standard topographical account of the moor.
Buckfastleigh
A modest stone memorial to William Crossing, the Victorian antiquary who mapped and documented Dartmoor with meticulous devotion.
