Tors of Dartmoor Blog
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 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 […]
The law condemns the man or woman Who steals a goose from off a common;But lets the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. The Devon Evening Express, 27th December 1883 Since 2019 I had been trying to raise awareness of a historical boundary stone that once stood on the east slope […]
Continuing our explorations in Buckland Woods, we turn to the south-eastern sections, comprising of Hardridge, Greypark and Coombe Wood. But before that there is a small tor (pictured above) beside the road between Buckland Bridge and Lodge that, to our knowledge, has not been documented before. On our adventures in Buckland Woods, we have passed […]
As of April 2021, parts of Ausewell Woods are now accessible to the public. This is an account of a permissive visit, back in September 2017, granted by Fountain Forestry who previously managed the site. Some sections, such as Cleft Rock, remain closed off to the public for both safety and to protect the wildlife. […]
Coombe Tor is on private land. It is not a minor transgression from a footpath or a harmless hop over a gate; it is half a kilometre from the nearest right of way, within dense woodland left to encourage wildlife, and surrounded by a patchwork of fields. The responsible course of action is to seek […]