Snowdrop Planting Day 10am–4pm Stone Lane Gardens, Chagford TQ13 8JU. Garden owners are invited to donate wild snowdrops from their own gardens.

Goldsmith’s Cross (talk)
Sue Andrew. 7.30pm Princetown Community Centre, Princetown History Club.

Introduction to Dartmoor’s Geology (talk) Josephine Collingwood. 7.30pm Church House Widecombe History Club.

Can I have my cake and eat it? (talk) 7pm Fingle Bridge Inn. Area Ranger Tom Wood talks about trees. Fingle lecture series. Email: FingleWoods@woodlandtrust.org.uk

Canonteign Falls and Swanaford Vineyard Kitchen Pop Ups. Email: ben@swanaford vineyard or jon@canonteignfalls.co.uk.

Parkrun (every Saturday) 9am. Parke, Bovey Tracey and Plymbridge Woods, Plym Valley.

Bronze Age Villages (walk) Phil Watson 5.5 miles. Start Bennett’s Cross (SX 690805). Email: philynnwatson@gmail.com.

Tavistock Arts Market 9am–4pm Butchers Hall. Also 4 April, 2 May.

Mountain Training Hill Skills Course Princetown.

Help the Rangers at Haytor Regular programme of conservation work days. Booking essential.

Canonteign Falls Opens for the season.

Succulent Plants and How to be Creative with Them 2.30pm Buckfast Abbey Garden Department. Booking

The History of the Harp Sarah Deere-Jones. Charter Hall, Okehampton. The Arts Society Dartmoor. For full programme visit

The Importance of being Earnest (play) Ivybridge Theatre Company. The Watermark.

The Murder of Nicholas Radford (play) Manaton Parish Hall. MED Theatre.

Ashburton Garden Association Flower Show 12–4pm Town Hall.

Locals Weekend at Canonteign Falls Half price entry for postcodes EX, TQ and PL; 10 percent off annual season ticket; launch of new Breakfast Club.

Spring Flower Festival RHS Rosemoor, Great Torrington.

Spring Steam Gala South Devon Railway, Buckfastleigh.

The Black Death on Dartmoor (talk) Dr David Stone. 7.30pm Meavy Parish Hall. Yelverton & District Local History Group.

Chudleigh Knighton Heath and the Narrow Headed Ant (talk) Andy Bakere and Stephen Carroll. 7.30pm Methodist Church Hall. Bovey Tracey Local Group DWT.

Gidsong Music, songs and stories. 8pm Gidleigh Village Hall. Tel: (01647) 321297.

Dartmoor Songs with Jig Dolls, Spoons etc (performance) Bill Murray. 7.30pm Union Inn. Moretonhampstead History Society.

The Restoration of Castle Drogo (talk) Paula Clarke. Lustleigh Village Hall 7.30pm. Lustleigh Society.

Presentation and visit to North Hall, Widecombe With Andy Crabb, Church House 2–4pm. Dartmoor Society, open to public. Pre-booking essential by 16 March.

Climate and Ecologial Crisis? What's all the fuss about? (talk) David Ramsden. 7.30pm Ockment Centre, Okehampton. Free talk. Refreshments.

Belstone Players Supper Theatre Two one-=act plays and two-course meal.

Behind the Scenes Buckfast Abbey Gardens 11am. See 11 March.

Bye George (play) Teign Valley Players, Teign Valley Community Hall.

Ben Mee from Dartmoor Zoo (talk) 7.30pm Tavistock Parish Centre. Devonshire Association.

Origin myths and archaeology: Tavistock and West Devon from prehistory to the Saxons (talk) Andrew Thompson. Tavistock Library. Booking essential: tel: (01822) 612218, email: tavistocklibrary@ librariesunlimited.org.uk.

The Murder of Nicholas Radford (play) Moretonhampstead Parish Hall. MED Theatre.

Dartmoor Tinworking Research Group AGM 10am–12.30pm Jubilee Hall, Chagford. Afternoon walk 1.30–5pm.

Lukesland Gardens Ivybridge. Open 11am–5pm Sundays, Wednesdays and Bank Holidays to 10 June.

Mother’s Day at Canonteign Falls Free entry/free glass of fizz for Mums with main meal order. No booking required. See 14/15 March.

Museum of Dartmoor Life Reopens for the season. Monday–Friday 10am–4.15pm; Saturday 10am–1pm.

Tales of winter on Dartmoor (talk) Paul Rendell. 7.30pm Phoenix Hall, St John’s Lane, Bovey Tracey. Bovey Tracey Heritage Trust.

Oaks and Acorns Children’s Activities Buckfast Abbey. See 11 March.

Spring Community Free Day RHS Rosemoor, Great Torrington. See 14 March.

Guided Short Walk (DPA) Golden Dagger Mine.

Saints and sinners: Tavistock Abbey and religious practice in the Middle Ages (talk) Andrew Thompson. Tavistock Library. See 20 March.

Devon Song Festival St Lawrence Chapel, Ashburton and St Margaret’s Church, Topsham.

Upcycled Market 10am–4pm Butchers Hall, Tavistock. Also 9 May.

Wray Valley Trail (walk) Paul Rendell 8 miles. Start Court Street car park, Moretonhampstead. Booking email: paul.dartmoor@virgin.net.

Wool and Yarn Festival RHS Rosemoor, Great Torrington. See 14 March.

Dartmoor Preservation Association 7.30pm Church House. Widecombe History Club. See 4 March.

Dormouse Habitat Links (talk) Matt Parkins 7pm Fingle Bridge Inn. Fingle lecture series. See 5 March.

Tin, trade and transhumance: the medieval town and countryside (talk) Andrew Thompson. Tavistock Library. See 20 March.

WellFest 2020 10am–3pm Moretonhampstead Sports and Community Centre. Free shuttlebuses from Moreton and Chagford; free parking on site. Outdoor sports taster sessions, free therapy treatments, delicious food and drink, live music and singing, storytelling, arts and crafts workshops, circus skills.

'La Grande Messe' (concert) Brent Singers. 19th-century Parisian high mass. 7.30pm Buckfast Abbey. Tickets www.buckfast.org.uk/onlineshop/tickets

Beekeeping Taster Days Buckfast Abbey. See 11 March.

Holy Wells of Cornwall and Devon (talk) Terry Faull. Princetown History Club. See 3 March.

Golden Gods, Wild Men and Axe-Fights. The Art of Renaissance Courtly Spectacle (talk) Toby Capwell. The Arts Society Dartmoor. See 11 March.

Easter Food & Craft Fair Butchers Hall, Tavistock.

Andrew’s Corner Garden Open in aid of NGS. Skaigh Lane, Belstone EX20 1RD. Refreshments, plants for sale. Tel: (01837) 840332.

Behind the Scenes & Recruitment Days South Devon Railway. See 14/15 March.

North East Dartmoor & the Black Death (talk) Dr David Stone. Moretonhampstead History Society. See 18 March.

Copper, canal and the Cornish: Tavistock in the Industrial Revolution (talk) Andrew Thompson. Tavistock Library. See 20 March.

Dartmoor Society AGM 2.30pm Jubilee Hall, Chagford. Members only. Presentation of Dartmoor Society Award to Dr Tom Greeves.

Berry Head Spring Walk Mike Langman, 9.30am–midday. Bovey Tracey DWT Group. See 17 March.

Walkhampton Craft Fair 10.30am–16.30pm Walkhampton Memorial Hall. Email: parris67@btinternet.com, tel: (01822) 855041.

Divertimento String Quartet (concert) 7.30pm Lustleigh Village Hall.

Haytor Granite (talk) Stuart Drabble. Yelverton & District Local History Society. See 17 March.

The History of a Devon Town House (talk) Dr Ian Mortimer. Lustleigh Village Hall. See 18 March.

Tavistock Festival of Music and the Arts Venues around town.

‘The age of improvement’: The Duke of Bedford's Estate in the 19th Century (talk) Andrew Thompson. Tavistock Library. See 20 March.

Guided Short Walk (DPA) Powdermills.

Two Moors Way Big Walk 5 Clannaborough to Witheridge.

Tinworking, Mining & Miners in Ashburton – a Community Day. Dartmoor Tinworking Research Group.

Exploring Meldon Reservoir (walk) Phil Watson, 6 miles. Email: philynnwatson@gmail.com.

Dawn Chorus walk around Belstone parish with Chris Walpole, followed by breakfast. 5.30am, Belstone Village Hall. Donations invited for hall funds. Tel: (01837) 840498.

Green Man Festival Grimspound Border Morris, Bovey Tracey.

Templer Way Challenge (walk) 18 miles Haytor to Shaldon. Dartmoor Search & Rescue Ashburton.

Beetling about the Dart Valley (walk) John Walters, 10am–midday. Meet New Bridge car park SX 712708. Bovey Tracey DWT Group. See 17 March.

Torquay Museum: Treasures from the Past (talk) Carl Smith. Bovey Tracey Heritage Trust. See 24 March.

Romancing the stones? Conservation from the Picturesque to World Heritage (talk) Andrew Thompson. Tavistock Library. See 20 March.

Dartmoor Border Morris 5.30am Leedon Tor car park.

Toby’s Garden Festival Powderham Castle.

Spring Craft Fair RHS Rosemoor, Great Torrington. See 14 March.

Dry Stone Walling (course) Orly Common, Ipplepen, TQ12 5SA. Devon Rural Skills Trust.

Lustleigh May Day Procession and crowning of the May Queen.

Requiem in Blue Mount Kelly Choral Society, 7.30pm St Eustachius Church, Tavistock. Tickets from BookStop, on the door or online.

60th Ten Tors Challenge See pages 13–17 and 24–6.

The Dave Brewer Archive (talk) Tim Jenkinson. Princetown History Club. See 3 March.

AGM & Shallowford (talk) Julia McDade. Widecombe History Club. See 4 March.

Spring Rails & Ales South Devon Railway. See 14/15 March.

20th Century Sculpture in Britain (talk) Justine Hopkins. The Arts Society Dartmoor. See 11 March.

Andrew’s Corner Garden Open in aid of NGS. See 12 April.

Foodies Delight Festival Butchers Hall, Tavistock.

Moretonhampstead NGS Open Gardens Sutton Mead and Mardon 2–5pm.

Dartmoor Farm Walk Langaford Farm, 2–4pm.

The Mythic Garden Sculpture Exhibition Stone Lane Gardens, Chagford TQ13 8JU.

Blowing Houses at Yealm Steps (walk) Cornwood Inn carpark. Dartmoor Tinworking Research Group. See 25 April.

Copper Mine and Hunting Lodge (guided tour and talk) Natural England Woodland Centre, Bovey Tracey. Devonshire Association. See 20 March.

Aethelred the Unread & the South West (talk) Dr Levi Roach. Moretonhampstead History Society. See 18 March.

The River Bovey from source to the Teign (talk) John Risdon. Lustleigh Society. See 18 March.

Day out with Thomas South Devon Railway. See 11 March.

Tavistock Garden Festival 2020 Grow – eat – enjoy! Pannier Market and Bedford Square.

Guided Short Walk (DPA) Haytor. See 25 April.

Street Food Festival 5.30–8.30pm, Tavistock.

The English Country Garden Festival Coombe Trenchard, Lewtrenchard, Okehampton. See

Devon Created – An Exhibition of Crafts and Flowers Sat/Sun 11.30am–5pm Crediton Parish Church. Mon–Wed 10am–5pm, Thurs 10am–3pm. Admission and parking free; refreshments.