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,...
Brian W. Pugh, Paul R. Spiring and Sadru Bhanji, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Devon. A Complete Tour Guide & Companion (MX Publishing Ltd., London, 2010), xvi + 255 pages. Softback. ISBN 9781904312864....
E. H. T. Whitten, Bonehill – Evolution of a Dartmoor Hamlet within Widecombe-in-the-Moor. (Ryelands, Halsgrove, Wellington, 2009), 128 pages, colour and b & w illustrations. Hardback. ISBN 9781906551155. £19.99. Bonehill is a fascinating cluster...
Charles Scott-Fox, Moorstone Barton: A Mediaeval Manor (Charles Scott-Fox for John Maunder Esq., Halberton, 2009), viii + 57 pages, 45 mainly colour illustrations, including maps and plans. Softback. ISBN 9870954701369. £10.00 plus £2.00 p...
Stephen Rippon, Peter Claughton and Chris Smart, Mining in a Medieval Landscape – The Royal Silver Mines of the Tamar Valley (University of Exeter Press, 2009), xiii + 207 pages, numerous b & w illustrations...
Ian Mercer, Dartmoor – A Statement of its Time (Harper Collins, London, 2009), xiv + 402 pages, numerous colour illustrations. ISBN 9780007184996 (hardback) and 9780007185009 (softback). £50. 00 (hardback), £30. 00 (softback). This substantial...