Recreation and activities on and around the moor
After a 20 year global business career living in New York, Hong Kong, London, and Australia, Emma returned home to Devon to recover her health. Reconnecting with her family’s love and guiding history on Dartmoor, she qualified as a Hill & Moorland Leader (HML) and founded ‘Dartmoor’s Daughter’.
Dartmoor
From guided walks to film showings, from climbing sessions to navigation workshops, from our very own festival letterbox trail to live music, there really is something for everyone at Dartmoor Outdoor Festival. Whether you are local and want to explore a side of Dartmoor you’ve never experienced or are visiting us from further afield, we’re looking forward to celebrating outdoor adventures and community with people of all ages and abilities and from all over the globe!
A collection of blog entries which started on other various Dartmoor related facebook pages, but have now been consolidated in one place by the author.This is an excellent resource of all things Dartmoor. Organised into categories making it easy to find information.
Make the most of DartmoorEmbark on a personalised Dartmoor adventure tailored to your interests and fitness level.
Buckfastleigh
35 handpicked child-friendly routes on Dartmoor, ready when you are.
An absolutely splendid resource - highlighting pretty much everything of interest on the ground on Dartmoor. Click on the interactive map and find out what's worth looking for on your next journey.
For many years Sophie was a reporter for BBC South West, covering all manner of stories for the radio and TV. She left in 2020 and now writes full time.
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 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…
