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Baring-Gould's great survey of the moor: its tors and antiquities, tin-workings, rivers, weather, legends and people, written by the squire-parson of Lew Trenchard who knew Dartmoor as few did.
A gathering of Dartmoor stories and sketches: moor-folk, legends and the life of the high country, from a master of the local tale.
The Devon companion to A Book of Dartmoor: town and moor and coast, history and character, from Exeter to the wild north.
The folk songs of Devon and Cornwall, collected from the mouths of the old singers by Baring-Gould and Fleetwood Sheppard.
John Herring, his marriage to the delicate Mirelle, and the rough rustic world of the West Country around them.
At Bratton Clovelly, Honor Luxmore, the frugal, red-cloaked 'Red Spider', keeps her widower father's house and cares for her siblings.
A ghostly coach drawn by headless horses, said to travel the road between Tavistock and Okehampton on winter nights.
A solitary granite monolith standing on open moorland.
Lydford
Ruined Dartmoor farmstead below Doe Tor, occupied for over 200 years until the mid-1950s, with a genuine literary connection to Sabine Baring-Gould and an antiquarian puzzle over one of its granite stones.
