Our Dartmoor Directory

Blytheswood Hostel

Steps Bridge, Dunsford

Stay in ancient woodland on the eastern edge of the Dartmoor National Park.

Arminel of the West

by John Trevena

Trevena's 1907 Dartmoor novel, set around Challacombe and Wistman's Wood, published the same year as the first volume of his Dartmoor trilogy.

The Forest on the Hill

by Eden Phillpotts

In the ancient oak woods of Yarner on the moor's eastern edge above Bovey Tracey: Timothy Snow, Drusilla, and Audrey Redstone, a story of the woodland and the people who work it.

Devon Local Nature Partnership

A strategic collaboration of organisations, groups and individuals working together to restore and enhance the natural environment across Devon.

Black-a-tor Copse

A high-altitude oak woodland beneath Black Tor, with lichens and mosses carpeting the ground.

White Woods

Holne

Ancient oak woodland on the south side of the River Dart gorge below Bench Tor, part of the Devon Wildlife Trust's Dart Valley reserve, reached via Venford Reservoir.

The Wisht Hounds of Wistman's Wood

Spectral hounds said to hunt across Dartmoor on winter nights, particularly near Wistman's Wood on the West Dart River.

Longaford Tor

A pyramid-shaped tor north of Two Bridges, with striking views back along the ridge.

Moor Trees

South Brent

Moor Trees restores native broadleaf woodland on Dartmoor by growing trees from locally collected seeds and engaging volunteers in habitat creation.