Woodland Festival Letterbox Trail Main car park, Yarner Wood, Bovey Tracey TQ13 9LJ. Family friendly self-guided event. Moor than meets the eye event.

Moor Otters Sculpture Trail Venues across Dartmoor.

Crossing the Centuries: Dartmoor’s Medieval Crosses (talk) Jane Marchand, former Senior Archaeologist for Dartmoor National Park. 7pm Devon Rural Archive, Shilstone, Modbury, PL21 0TW. £5. Tel: (01548) 830832, email: abi@dra.uk.net.

Kids’ Nature Treasure Hunt and Letterboxing Haytor Car park. Dartmoor’s Daughter, £10. Tel: 07817 329584

Tour of Calstock (walk) Meet at Calstock train station 11.30am; 4-mile walk.

Dartmoor Entertainers (film) 8pm Moretonhampstead Parish Hall. Tickets Green Hill, Moreton Info Centre and Moreton News.

Summer Fair 10am–4pm Donkey Sanctuary, Filham Park, Ivybridge. Tel: (01752) 690200.

Sanduck Cross Farm Sheepdog Trial 8.30am Lustleigh. Tel: (01647) 440287.

The Lost Sound – Dartmoor Folk Choir (concert) 7.30pm Tavistock Town Hall, £8.50. www.ticketsource.co.uk

Cob Walling Course Jeremy Weiss, DRST, Velwell, Dartington. Tel: 07962 432317.

Coombe Trenchard Home & Garden Show

6th Dartmoor Firkin Challenge BBQ and music, Royal Oak Inn, Meavy.

Guided bike ride to discover the Dartmoor Way Start Ivybridge or South Brent.

Andrew’s Corner Garden NGS 2.30–5.30pm. Skaigh Lane, Belstone, £3.50. Tel: (01837) 840332, email: edwinarobinhill@btinternet.com.

Tavistock Steam and Vintage Fair www.therobeytrust.co.uk

Picnic at the Park River Dart Country Park, Ashburton.

Growing a new wildlife hedge on high Dartmoor Devon Wildlife Trust Open Day 2–5pm, Yellowmeade Farm, Princetown PL20 6SS, SX 566743. No dogs, refreshments available. Information email: srdowns@btinternet.com.

Wind Tor near Rowden Cross (walk) Paul Rendell 10am Cross Road (SX703760) 3–5 miles, 2 hours, £6. Tel: (01837) 54727.

Rev. Bray’s Inscribed Stones (walk) Dr James Fox. 7pm car park opp. Two Bridges Hotel. Princetown History Club. Tel: (01822) 890867.

Burrator Volunteering Day 10am–3pm, Burrator Discovery Centre. Also 12 June, 18 June (to 3.30pm), 20 June, 30 June. Tel: (01822) 855700

Little Poland (talk) Ken Holland. 7.30pm Church House, Widecombe History Group.

Lukesland House (tour) Harford, nr Ivybridge. Tickets tel: (01206) 573948.

35th anniversary of Falklands War Remembrance event, 11am Tavistock War Memorial. Tavistock Royal British Legion.

Contemporary Craft Festival Bovey Tracey.

PCWW Boundstones Picnic and Ailsborough Tin Mine (walk) Tom Greeves. 10.30am–4pm, meet Gutter Tor SX579674.

New Century Singers Concert (Bovey Tracey) Abbotsbury Church, Newton Abbot 7.30pm.

Military Wives Choir St John’s Church, North Bovey. Tel: (01647) 440053.

Flag Festival Moretonhampstead

Ryders Hill & Moor (walk) Paul Rendell 10.15am Venford Reservoir car park 12 miles, 6 hours, £10. See 6 June.

LEAF Open Farm Sunday

The Great British Dog Walk 10am Canonteign Falls, Lower Ashton, Teign Valley. Adults £12 (£10 online), children free. In aid of Hearing Dogs for Deaf People.

Hexworthy (walk) Paul Rendell. 10am. See 6 June

A Walking Tour of Moretonhampstead Bill Hardiman 6.45pm Court Street Car Park. Yelverton Local History Society.

Evening electric bike ride 6pm Beltor Corner car park; £16, booking essential. Tel: (01364) 631292, 07980 632158

Wake up to organic! Local independent retailers, delis and cafes across Devon will be serving up free organic breakfasts in a nationwide event to celebrate organic food.

Macmillan Gidleigh Opera 1Gidleigh Park Hotel. Tickets www.exeternorthcott.co.uk

Meavy Oak Fair 1.30pm including Burrator Horseshoe Run. See 4 June.

Stone Walling Course Dave Dingle, DRST. Higher Bradworthy Farm, South Brent. Tel: 07815 189911.

South Tawton Art Group Exhibition Church House, South Tawton.

Rose FestivalRHS Rosemoor, Great Torrington.

South Brent Summer Carnival Information tel: (01364) 73292, email: jean@cleave.entadsl.com.

Moretonhampstead Music Day All day, venues around town.

South Zeal Open Gardens Victory Hall.

Dean Prior Life Drawing Group Exhibition Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes.

Gidleigh (walk) Paul Rendell. See 6 June.

Printmakers Exhibition Theatre Royal, Plymouth.

Plants of the Granite Tramway (walk) 11–4pm Start Haytor Down SX770776. Granite Elements – Bovey Tracey Parishscapes Project MTMTE. Tel: (01626) 832330, email: albert.knott@naturalengland.org.uk.

Okehampton Festival of Food & Music

The Dartmoor Hay Meadows Project and Hay Meadow Flora (talk) Old Duchy Hotel, Princetown and visit to Dartmoor Preservation Association’s hay meadow at Pudsham. Chrissy Mason, community ecologist MTMTE. Bring packed lunch. 10.30–3pm donations welcome. Dartmoor Conservation Garden. Booking essential, tel: (01364) 631233 email: wylde@gn.apc.org.

Tavistock Canal book launch Simon Dell. 10am Tavistock Museum. 2pm walk along canal. Free.

‘Far from the madding crowd’ (play) Theatre in the Garden, Castle Drogo.

Horrabridge Summer Fair Midday to 4pm, Weir Park.

Tedburn Summer Fair Midday–3pm Tedburn St Mary.

Midsummer & Solstice 8 Stone Circles (walk and overnight camp) Scorhill Farmhouse, Gidleigh. Dartmoor’s Daughter Tel: 07817 329584 Booking

Flying along the Granite Tramway (3-mile bird and butterfly walk) 10am–12.30pm. Lower Haytor car park SX765772. DWT Bovey Tracey as part of Granite Elements. Tel: (01626) 834399, mob: 07831 218 082, email: johnwych@hotmail.com Suggested donation £3. No booking required.

Open Day and 3rd birthday celebration Burrator Discovery Centre. Midday–4pm. SWLT.

Castle Drogo (walk)Paul Rendell 10am NT car park. See 6 June.

Ange Hardy and Lukas Drinkwater Widecombe Sailing Club event, The Café on the Green, Widecombe.

New Century Singers Concert 7.30pm St Peter, St Paul & St Thomas Church, Bovey Tracey.

‘Jane Eyre’ (play) Roadford Lake.

Ivybridge Big Event Free taster sports and activities.

Lions Club Fun Day & Beer Festival 12 noon – midnight Ivybridge Rugby Club. Tel: (01752) 894392.

Zale Fayre South Zeal

Magnificent Mires (walk) Meet Station Car Park Bovey Tracey to car share. 7-mile guided walk around Teignhead. Suggested donation £3. Tel: (01392) 833183, email: ian.merrett@btinternet.com. Bovey Tracey DWT

The Meadow Makers' Conference 9.30am–5.30pm Brimpts Farm, Dartmeet. Tickets £22 inc. lunch.

Dartmoor Perambulation Paul Rendell. 50-mile walk around boundary of Dartmoor Forest, four days over two weekends. See 6 June.

Painting Day with John Christian Walking, sketching and painting, £45. Dartmoor’s Daughter. Tel: 07817 329584.

Dunsford Show 12–5pm

South Brent Folk Day

South Devon 1940s Festival South Devon Railway.

Magical Meadows: A Family Fun Day 11am–4.30pm Brimpts Farm, Dartmeet.

The role of the ponies on Dartmoor (inc. the Granite Tramway (walk & talk) 1.30–4pm. Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust, Parke, Bovey Tracey. Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust as part of Granite Elements. Booking essential. Tel: (01626) 833234, email: admin@dpht.co.uk.

Postbridge (walk) Paul Rendell. See 6 June.

Dartmoor Mindscapes (walk) Peter Knight. 7pm Four Winds car park SX562749. Princetown History Club. See 6 June.

Exeter Cathedral Restoration & Conservation 1969–1980 (talk) Peter Dare. Widecombe History Group. See 7 June.

Devon and the First World War (talk) Dr David Parker 7pm, £5 Devon Rural Archive. See 1 June.

American Old Time Music Gathering Music, camping, food. Burrator.

Sittaford Stone Circle & Whitehorse Hill (walk/talk) Lee Bray. £13, Dartmoor’s Daughter Tel: 07817 329584.

Jazz on the Airfield – Steve Tucker’s All Star Jazz Band Bar and Food. Eggesford, nr Chulmleigh EX18 7QY 4. Advance tickets: Adults £12.50, under 16s £6.25 from Eggesford Garden Centre or tel: (01363) 83245 www.eventbrite.co.uk. In aid of Send a Cow.

The Botany and Ecology of Dartmoor’s Mires and Bogs (talk) Old Duchy Hotel, Princetown and visit to mini-mire within Conservation Garden, then walk at Emsworthy. 10.30–3pm, own cars, bring packed lunch. £18 (concessions £12). Booking essential, tel: (01364) 631233, email: wylde@gn.apc.org.

Tavistock Music Festival

Lost Sound Chorus St Pancras church, Widecombe.

Belstone Village Fair 2–4.30pm

Meldon (walk) Paul Rendell. See 6 June.

Evening electric bike ride See 14 June.

The Dartmoor Society BBQ 6pm Heron’s Brook, South Zeal.

Ale Tasting & Bread Weighing Ceremony and Medieval Fayre Ashburton.

Greenwood Tools Workshop 9.30am–3.30pm Leighbeer Plantation nr Yelverton. Sustainable Coppice Partnership £25 inc. tea and cake. Stout boots, warm clothing. Places limited: email: team@sustainablecoppice.org or tel (01747) 820718.

Buckfastleigh Festival of Sport Weekend Buckfastleigh Football Club and Victoria Park. Our aim is to develop a town sports strategy that helps get more people active and healthy! So far, we have football, rugby, cricket, petanque, karate, caving, climbing, parkour, lifeguarding, basketball, water polo, e-bikes, table tennis, skittles, rounders, pure stretch, circuit training, women's running, zumba, aquafit, water volleyball and junior duathalon!

Wembury, South Devon coast (walk) Paul Rendell. See 6 June.

Soil: Discover the world beneath your feet (c5km walk) Dr Rob Parkinson. 10am–3pm. Meet Haytor Visitor Centre. Granite Elements MTMTE. Booking essential, tel: (01626) 832330, email: albert.knott@naturalengland.org.uk.

Chagstock Music Festival Whiddon Down.

Midnight Madness 11 1/4 mile walk. Start Princetown Primary School, 9pm. Dartmoor Search and Rescue (Plymouth).

Ram Roast Bridestowe.

North Bovey Villlage Fair

Four Winds (walk) ) Paul Rendell. See 6 June.

Yealmpton Show Kitley Lawns, Yealmpton.

Delamore House (tour) Delamore Estate, Cornwood, Ivybridge. Tel: (01206) 573948. Tickets

Dartmoor Border Morris Rugglestone Inn, Widecombe.

Science of Wild Dartmoor – Families and Communities Day 12–4pm Fun events for all ages, bug-hunting, plant trails, science experiments, nature crafts. Free drop-in event. Dartmoor Conservation Garden, Princetown.

Around and about Cornwood (walk) Paul Rendell. See 6 June.

Beekeeping taster day Buckfast Abbey.

Beer and Music Festival Morwellham Quay.

Dartmoor Border Morris 1pm Widecombe.

100th Aniversary of 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) Remembrance Service, 11am War Memorial, Tavistock British Legion.

Coach Visit to American Museum Bath. Widecombe History Group. See 7 June.

History of Dartmoor Ponies (talk followed by excursion) Joss Hibbs. Booking email: Bill.Radcliffe2@btopenworld.com. Princetown History Club.

Canals of the West Country & overseas (talk) Colin Vosper. Widecombe History Group. See 7 June.

Drawn to the Valley Exhibition Tavistock Town Hall.

F. W. Meyer: Landscape Gardener to Robert Veitch & Son (talk) Carolyn Keep, Devon Gardens Trust. 7pm, £5 Devon Rural Archive. See 1 June.

Sticklepath Village Day

Langaland Family festival, nr Moretonhampstead.

Gigspanner Big Band St Andrews Church, Ashburton.

Okehampton Show

‘Wind in the willows’ (play) Theatre in the Garden, Castle Drogo.

Dartmoor Folk Festival South Zeal.

Cornwood Agricultural & Horticultural Show Cadleigh Farm, Lee Mill.

Manaton Show and Fair 1.30pm Church Field. Games and children's races, fun dog show, horticultural show, cream teas, plant stall, bar, Morris dancers, craft stalls, classic cars, raffle and more. Adults £4; children and parking free.

Sticklepath Horsehoe Run

RAF Harrowbeer 1940s Weekend Yelverton.

Summer Festival Morwellham Quay.

The Rough Devil & its Bears (walk) Paul Rendell Two Bridges quarry car park. See 6 June.

A Visit to Dartmoor Prison PoW Cemeteries and Museum 7pm main gate. Yelverton & District Local History Society.

Dartmoor Border Morris Dancers 8pm East Dart Hotel. See 30 July.

Evening electric bike ride See 14 June.

Guided tour of Princetown (Simon Dell) Tel: (01647) 441083. Moretonhampstead History Group.

Chagford Show

Sourton Open Produce and Craft Show 2.30–4.30pm Sourton Village Hall EX20 4NH. Craft, cookery, vegetables, flowers and children’s classes. Tel: (01837) 861120, email: Sourtonshow@gmail.com.

Fingle Forest Festival 11am–4pm Fingle Bridge Meadow, Drewsteignton EX6 6PW. Activities for all the family. For more information email: FingleWoods@woodlandtrust.org.uk or call 0330 333 5302.

Cornwood Horse Show See 12 August.

Dartmoor Border Morris Dancers 8pm Plume of Feathers, Princetown. See 30 July.

Moretonhampstead Carnival Procession 6pm.

Devon Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers Exhibition Buckfast Abbey

Dartmoor Walking Festival

Whitchurch & Sampford Spiney Sheepdog Trial 9am Plasterdown, Tavistock. Tel: (01822) 880215.

Create a rustic bench (workshop) Sustainable Coppice Partnership. See 15 July.

Wild Food BBQ and Cider Festival Meavy. See 4 June.

Rabbits & Tin (walk)Paul Rendell 10.15am car park near Warren House Inn. See 6 June.

Lustleigh Village Show

Peter Tavy Village Fayre Tel: (01822) 810868.

Dartmoor Past & Present (walk) Paul Rendell 10am Postbridge car park. See 6 June.

‘Peter Pan’ (play) Moorland Garden Hotel.

Peter Hirst Memorial Walk Mike Wright and Richard Wells. Widecombe History Group. See 7 June.

Dartmoor Border Morris Dancers 8pm Horse & Groom, Bittaford.

Ghostly Dartmoor (walk) Paul Rendell 8pm Bellever Youth Hostel. See 6 June.