Editor's Blog

Hembury Woods, Dartmoor: A Spring Diary

Spring unfurls in Dartmoor’s Hembury Woods… and on the Dartmoor Way from Shipley Bridge to Ashburton

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Bluebells and beech leaves: springtime walks from home on Dartmoor

Three circular springtime walks from Steward Cottages in the Wray Valley, Dartmoor

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Dartmoor tales: from Hound Tor to Tahiti... via Norway...

What links Dartmoor’s Moretonhampstead with The Hound Tor Inn, Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles and the Kon-Tiki expedition? Read on to learn more!

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Secrets of Steward Wood, east Dartmoor

Discoveries on the doorstep in the Wray valley on Dartmoor… A house suitable for ‘a gentleman fond of agricultural and country pursuits’, a vanished farmstead, a blind widow… read on to find out more!

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A review of 2019 on Dartmoor – Part Three

Three months in the life of a Dartmoor editor and writer in words and photos – the Belstone tors, Halstock Wood, Chagford drift sale, the Devonport Leat near Crazywell Pool (and below Longaford Tor), the Avon Dam, Riders Rings and Black Tor from Shipley Bridge… with a spot of Exmoor, Cornwall and the Scottish Highlands thrown in for good measure!

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A review of 2019 on Dartmoor – Part Two

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