Tors of Dartmoor Blog
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Summer 2012. This short article charts what appears to be the discovery of a new tor, one that has been seemingly overlooked in the literature of Dartmoor and is not represented by the Ordnance Survey, which is rather surprising given its prominence atop Coombe Down at […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Autumn 2011. This series of occasional papers is designed to build upon existing knowledge of the landscape of Dartmoor and develop where possible some new insights into those parts of the moor that have so far received somewhat scant attention in the literature. To this end […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Spring 2013. The often-difficult terrain of Eastern Dartmoor with its steep wooded slopes above Bovey Tracey, Lustleigh and Moretonhampstead has led to considerable underrepresentation in the literature. As accessibility has and continues to be a problem, very little is known of the various tors […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Summer 2015. This article and the next two in the ‘Dartmoor Discovered’ series have been inspired by the accounts of William Crossing in the book ‘Gems in a Granite Setting’ that was first published in 1905 and reprinted for a new generation in 1986. […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Winter 2011. It is very likely that hundreds of people will have walked the path to Buckland Beacon on South Dartmoor to view the celebrated Ten Commandment stones that have lain close to the summit at SX 735731 since c1928 without paying too much […]