Tors of Dartmoor Blog
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Autumn 2021 Issue 143. This article details a short excursion over parts of Harford Moor with a starting point at Harford Moor Gate (SX 6432 5954). Firstly, we head south towards the picturesque Butter Brook, where we start with the impressive hut circles at SX 6444 […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Autumn 2018 Issue 133. This the second of two articles on the subject continues an exploration of some of the hidden rocks and tors of the far eastern side of Dartmoor National Park an area which until relatively recently had been largely overlooked in the literature […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Autumn 2018 Issue 132. Until relatively recently the various landscape features of the far eastern side of Dartmoor National Park (DNP) had been largely overlooked in the literature of the moor. One of the possible reasons for this could lie in the explanation offered […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Spring 2019, Issue 134, p48-49. For me there is simply no better sight on Dartmoor than the dramatic rock-strewn slopes of Tavy Cleave (SX 5583). Described by William Crossing (1905) as a wild grandeur that is ‘unsurpassed throughout the Moorland region’, whether you are standing […]
An edited version of this article appeared in Dartmoor Magazine – Summer 2019, Issue 135. 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 […]