Tors of Dartmoor Blog
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Summer 2019, Issue 139. In recent years with a little more time to reflect on my earlier excursions to lesser known parts of Dartmoor, I have often had occasion to return to the various commentaries of both William Crossing and Eric Hemery, two of the […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Spring 2021, Issue 141, p44-45 In the tome High Dartmoor Eric Hemery (EH) introduces the reader to numerous and previously unrecorded place names for areas of the moor that he has visited, observations that are based on at least three decades of exploration and research […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Autumn 2019, Issue 136, p48-49 The literature of Dartmoor occasionally reveals some curious and rather fanciful place names for its rocks and tors that have usually been assigned by local people on account of their appearance or their proximity to nearby landscape features. However, over […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Spring 2020, Issue 138, p48-49 As with the nearby Mary Meynell memorial, discussed in a previous article (Jenkinson 2019) the so-called Hunters’ Stone beside the River Avon on South Dartmoor has endured similar contradictions and occasional misinformation in the literature of the moor regarding its […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Winter 2019, Issue 137, p38-39 Walking northwards from Shipley Bridge in the direction of the Avon Dam and after passing through the gateway towards the ruins of Brent Moor House the visitor will notice shortly just to the left of the main path a small […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Winter 2021 Issue 144 pp58-59. Bridford and Christow are two villages and civic parishes situated on the far eastern side of the Dartmoor National Park (DNP) in an area that is often referred to as the Teign Valley. The former covers approximately 4090 acres of […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Winter 2017 Issue 129. The first part of this article exploring some of the interesting features of East Dart River to the north of Postbridge concluded on the southern slopes of Lade Hill (SX 6381), a vast expanse of open moor with a scattering of […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Autumn 2017 Issue 128. Having previously written in this series about some of the interesting and lesser-known aspects of East Dart River to the north of Dartmeet (DM121 winter 2015 pp40–1), this article (and the one to follow) concentrates on the same river, but this […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Winter 2015 Issue 121. William Crossing rightly included Dartmeet, the point where West and East Dart rivers unite, as one of his ‘Gems in a Granite Setting’, for here we have ease of access to the riverbank coupled with gentle walks to enjoy that are […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Summer 2017 Issue 127. Greatrock Copse lies approximately three quarters of a mile to the northwest of the village of Hennock on East Dartmoor, and is a fascinating place for discovering hidden rock piles as well as a series of granite stones dated 1858. The name […]