Storyteller, poet and photographic artist based on Dartmoor, telling traditional tales of the land in the oral storytelling tradition; author of Pixie Folk Tales.
Storyteller, author and folklorist living on the wild edge of Dartmoor, using traditional oral storytelling to explore our relationship with nature and folklore.
Folklorist, author and storyteller specialising in Dartmoor folklore, the Wild Hunt and Black Dog legends, available for talks, signings and guided walks.
Paul Rendell was born in Plymouth and became enthusiastic about Dartmoor from an early age after being taken on numerous outings by his parents. Burrator and Sheepstor were two of the favourite places they went as a family.Very early he found he was fascinated by the moor's industrial archaeology and its wildlife. Because he was dyslexic his schooldays were not very easy for him but he struggled on until school leaving age.
“A man is said to have been making his way through Aune Mire when he came on a top-hat reposing, brim downwards, on the sedge. He gave it a kick, whereupon a voice called out from beneath, "What be you a-doin' to my 'at?" The man replied, "Be there now a chap under'n?" "Ees, I reckon," was the ...”
Also on Our DartmoorThe Cemetery: Cosdon triple stone row and cairn — The Cosdon triple stone row, known as The Cemetery: 138 m long, three rows with at least 118 stones, ending in a cairn with two joined cists, dug in 1896.
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Plate from A Book of Dartmoor, page 85, 1900