By Dr Susan Andrew (This article first appeared in Dartmoor Magazine: https://dartmoormagazine.co.uk/, Winter 2017) On the south side of Walkhampton church a slate surmounting a chest tomb bears the following inscription: Deposited Beneath ARE...
This video is an abbreviated version of the presentation given by Dr Varndell at our 2019 Conference. The video is hosted on Youtube, and can also be seen on that site here.
This paper by Helen Wilson was originally published in the Devon Buildings Group Newsletter 34 (2016) pp. 59-67. It is in pdf format and can be read using the viewer below. Alternatively the pdf...
By Miss Gillian F. Moore, B.A. (Recorder) WHEN I gave my first report at South Molton two years ago I said I hoped to produce a series of dialect maps; I am very pleased...
This chapter, full title “Friend or Foe? Three Hares in Medieval Devon and Beyond” by Dr Sue Andrew, is extracted from Greeves, T., Andrew, S., and Chapman, C., The Three Hares: A Curiosity Worth...
By Dr Susan Andrew (This article first appeared in Dartmoor Magazine: https://dartmoormagazine.co.uk/, Summer 2017) While researching the tale of the watchmaker George Routleigh for the previous issue of Dartmoor Magazine, an interesting postcard of...
By James Hine, F.R.I.B.A. (Read at Tavistock, August, 1889.) Devonshire was, and has ceased to be, a great manufacturing county; which is tantamount to saying, I think, that there was more enterprise and activity...
By Robert Burnard, F.S.A., HON. F.S.A. SCOT. (Read at Princetown, 19 July, 1905.) Wayfaring across Dartmoor was very different in the middle of the eighteenth century from what it is to-day, for the broad...
By Robert Burnard. (Read at Tavistock, August, 1889.) All that is known of the Great Central Trackway is contained in Rowe’s Perambulation of Dartmoor. It is described as follows: “The most extensive trackway which...
By Robert Burnard, F. S. A. (Read at Bideford, July, 1902. ) The surface of Dartmoor and borderland is studded with numerous prehistoric and historic remains. The former include camps, stone circles, hut circles,...