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The Devonshire Association committee that dug, surveyed and re-erected Dartmoor's hut circles, stone rows and cairns from 1893, with eleven reports by 1906 and a twelfth in 1935.
North Bovey, Newton Abbot
Established in 2021, Langaford Farm Trust conserves a 100 acre Dartmoor farm near Lettaford on Dartmoor's North Eastern rim: a mix of pastures, woodland and wetland, renowned for its conservation of the Marsh fritillary butterfly.
Robert Burnard's case against the enclosure and exploitation of Dartmoor, first published in 1896 and issued by the Dartmoor Preservation Association as its Publication No. 11.
Plymouth
Plymouth fertiliser manufacturer and antiquarian (1848-1920), first secretary of the Dartmoor Preservation Association and a leading member of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, credited with overseeing the 1909 restoration of the Grey Wethers circles.
Widecombe-in-the-Moor
Chairman of the Dartmoor Preservation Association from 1951 to 1973, and its most formidable conservation campaigner, fighting off a TV mast, military exercises, reservoirs and china clay expansion across the moor.
Guy Shrubsole's 2024 examination of how Britain's landowning elite manage the countryside, winner of the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Conservation.
Buckfastleigh
Artist - Ecologist - Speaker
A podcast from Moorland Guides sharing stories of the people, places and projects linked to Dartmoor National Park.
Chief Executive of the Dartmoor Preservation Association, leading its work on access, conservation and the Dartmoor Public Access Fund.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“There had been a dense fog over the moor the night before, and it had only just partially cleared when I encountered these two dishevelled objects, looking draggled, wet, and most forlorn. On coming nearer I discovered one to be the school mistress of the Huccaby school, and a friend. When I asked ...”
Also on Our DartmoorEve: A Novel — A convict escaped from the war prison on Dartmoor is nursed back to health by Eve; as he recovers, the watcher becomes the watched.
