Myths & Legends
Crazywell Pool
A large moorland pool near Princetown, said to be bottomless and an omen of death in local tradition.
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Myths & Legends
The Coffin Stone
A stone at Dartmeet said to mark a coffin's resting place, or to warn of death.
Myths & Legends
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.
Myths & Legends
Lady Howard's Coach
A ghostly coach drawn by headless horses, said to travel the road between Tavistock and Okehampton on winter nights.
Myths & Legends
The Dewerstone and the Wild Hunt
A Wild Hunt legend tied to an Iron Age fort above the River Plym, popular in Dartmoor folklore but of uncertain age and origin.
Myths & Legends
The Legend of Bowerman's Nose
A granite outcrop near Manaton said to be a hunter turned to stone for hunting on the Sabbath.
Myths & Legends
Childe the Hunter
A granite cross marking the burial of a young nobleman who died on Fox Tor Mires, with competing versions of how he got there.
Myths & Legends
The Legend of Kitty Jay
The grave of Kitty Jay, a suicide victim denied consecrated burial, near Hound Tor on Dartmoor.
Myths & Legends
The Piskies of Sheepstor
A pixie legend attached to Sheepstor, on the high moor between Princetown and Dartmeet.
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