Recreation and activities on and around the moor
Moretonhampstead
A community-run, solar-heated 25-metre open-air swimming pool open from May to September, offering general and lane swimming, aqua fit, lessons, coaching and water polo.
Okehampton
Independent cinema in Kingsbridge showing current films with flexible booking and event screenings.
Private healthcare provider with gyms, fitness classes, physiotherapy and wellbeing services across multiple locations.
Exeter
Tel: 01392 272105 9am till 5pm Office Hours Welcome to Oaklands Riding School Oaklands Riding school and livery yard was established in 1971 and has always been a family run…
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.
Guided and self-guided walking holidays across Devon and the South West, led by experienced mountain leader Jon Barnett.
Shipley Bridge, Buckfastleigh
A tin mine pit carved into Dartmoor's granite moorland, testament to centuries of mining that shaped this landscape.
Dartmeet, Nr Princetown
Selling Gnomes since 1947 and sheepskin products since 1960
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…
