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Organised by Dartmoor Preservation Association
Saturday 24 October 2026, 10:00am – 2:00pm
Hound Tor
Free
A FREE pre-Halloween walk taking in areas of spookiness and folklore, as devised by David Phillips, storyteller from the Torbay Weekly.
Organised by Dartmoor Preservation Association
Tuesday 10 November 2026, 10:00am – 1:30pm
Shapley Common, Shapley Tor, Hookney Tor, Grimspound and return. The walk will explore the Bronze Age settlement of Grimspound, with many hut circles and a mystery cross. We will p…
Organised by Dartmoor Preservation Association
Wednesday 11 November 2026, 10:00am – 1:00pm
Pork Hill car park, Pork Hill, Tavistock, PL19 9JU
Free
This is the third in a series of 3 walks and people are welcome to come to just one, or all three. Each will cover a different topic.
Organised by Dartmoor Preservation Association
Friday 27 November 2026, 10:00am – 12:00pm
Pudsham Meadows, Buckland in the Moor, Teignbridge, TQ13 7HP
Free
A gentle stroll with DPA Ecologist Albert Knott considering the winter management of trees and hedges, plus some winter twig ID.
Organised by Dartmoor Preservation Association
Tuesday 1 December 2026, 10:00am – 1:30pm
The walk will explore quarry SSSI details, GWR Princetown railway track bed, Burrator & Sheepstor Halt station, Burrator Reservoir and history of the dam, The Devonport Leat, L…
by Paul Harris - Glavind Strachan Photography Our Dartmoor started life as a zine: an attempt to bring together people…
A Vast Solitude by Paul Harris - Glavind Strachan Photography A review of "An Exploration of Dartmoor and its…
Will the real Mary Maria Colling please stand up? (A Dartmoor Story about a lowly Tavistock resident in the Nineteenth…
Bowerman’s Nose: Legends are like memes in slow motion by Paul Harris - Glavind Strachan Photography The universe is…
Exercise Baskerville by Clive Darke In 1967 there were eighteen deaths from exposure (hypothermia) and frostbite on…
In the Footsteps of Francis Drake by David J. Hawkings As a boy growing up in Plymouth, I often found myself looking to…
The Loneliest Place by George Wall A solitary hawthorn twists improbably out of the earth. The silhouette of a distant…
Prehistoric Dartmoor by Andrew McAuley Most visitors to Dartmoor National Park are aware that it is a landscape full of…
