A population of rare Small Pearl Bordered #Fritillary butterflies has been confirmed on DPA owned land at High House Waste. Our Ecological Consultant, Albert Knott, surveyed for these #butterflies, and was delighted to record substantial activity. dartmoorpreservation.co.uk/rare-butterf...

Rare Butterflies Confirmed at High House Waste - Dartmoor Preservation Association

A population of rare Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary butterflies has been confirmed on DPA owned land at High House Waste. Our Ecological Consultant, Albert Knott, spent a day on the land last week su...

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Preorder the Stone Lands paperback before its publication on 4th June and you have a chance to win this stunning framed print of Avebury by incredible illustrator Philip Harris! (I love his images so much, this is the Chapter 1 opener.) Enter here (T&Cs apply): www.littlebrown.co.uk/little-brown...

In search of 200 year old inscribed stones on Dartmoor- the work of the Rev Edward Bray, until recently, hidden and forgotten. There’s a rare chance to see them on Sat 2nd May. 2pm in a walk led by Simon Dell. Book here dartmoortorsfestival.co.uk/edward-brays...

This weekend (17–19th) is the Good Grief spring festival 💚 It is online and FREE, with a huge choice of talks. I'll be speaking at 3pm on Sunday 19th with @smpierce.bsky.social + Lizzie Pickering @goodgrieffest.bsky.social on finding comfort and hope in nature. www.goodgrieffest.com/events/lands...

Really excited that nature poet @janelovellpoetry.bsky.social will be joining us at the Dartmoor Tors Festival on Sunday 3rd May at 11am @ashburtonarts.bsky.social - along with fellow poet Mark Haworth Booth for conversation and readings . Book here : wegottickets.com/f/16604/

An interesting behind the scenes perspective from Paul Harris of Glavind Strachan Photography, who photographed our depiction of St Gudula for the Dartmoor Tors Festival. He delves into the complex and contrasting history of this local (or not so local) saint. glavindstrachan.com/blog/st-gudu...

Dartmoor Portrait Photography - St Gudula Shoot at Swincombe | Glavind Strachan Photography — Glavind Strachan Photography

Dartmoor photographer Paul Harris captures Helen Bruce as St Gudula for the Dartmoor Tors Festival - a portrait shoot in the Swincombe Valley

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By reconnecting with local customs, by invoking #Dartmoor rivers as beings with agency and presence, the Dartmoor Tors Festival invites both locals and visitors to enter a deeper relationship with the national park. #holywell #welldressing #mayday dartmoorpreservation.co.uk/ancient-holy...

Ancient Holy Well Forms Centrepiece for New Dartmoor Community Pageant - Dartmoor Preservation Association

St Gudula’s Well in Ashburton, an ancient holy well, will be the focus of a new community ritual honouring water as the source of all life, and celebrating the start of summer. ‘Gudula’s Gathering’ ha...

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Gudula’s Gathering | New Dartmoor Community Pageant focuses on ancient holy well New community ritual for Dartmoor reconnects with local customs and draws people together at St Gudula’s Well

Gudula’s Gathering | New Dartmoor Community Pageant focuses on ancient holy well

New community ritual for Dartmoor reconnects with local customs and draws people together at St Gudula’s Well

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We're supporting the #Dartmoor Tors #Festival as lead partner for 2026, which includes playing a part in the closing parade. This celebrates community, culture and life giving water, symbolized by the dressing of St. Gudula's healing well in #Ashburton. www.theprsd.co.uk/2026/04/01/g...

Gudula’s Gathering | New Dartmoor Community Pageant focuses on ancient holy well - the PRSD

New community ritual for Dartmoor reconnects with local customs and draws people together at St Gudula’s Well

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Nature on Dartmoor is in decline. Is it too late to save it? @lisaschneidau.bsky.social from Dartmoor Nature Alliance, Tracy May from Dartmoor Commoners and Richard Drysdale from DNP, will discuss this with @sophiepavs.bsky.social in the chair - at the Dartmoor Tors Festival info at link in bio .

Looking forward to my talk at Arundells Salisbury on 15th April! All about Britain’s amazing standing stones - and local hero John Aubrey too (in this his 400th anniversary year). Just a very few tickets left now arundells.org/events/stone...

Stone Lands: The Megaliths of Britain - Arundells

A Journey of Darkness and Light through Britain's Ancient Places

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What is natural mysticism and how does it relate to Paganism? The wonderful @rebeccambeattie.bsky.social will be joining us at the Dartmoor Tors Festival to discuss, and also lead a workshop on the Wheel of the Year. She grew up on Dartmoor; this feeds into her life and work. Tix at the link in bio

Brilliant news, all thanks to the dogged determination and research by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social who is frankly a bit of a hero !

Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 5mo ago

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This pic, of the Beating of the Bounds at Throwleigh, was taken in 1991 by Chris Chapman. Chris has been documenting life on Dartmoor since the 70s, and he will be speaking at the Dartmoor Tors Fest with archaeologist Alan Endacott. Do join them on 1 May in Ashburton. wegottickets.com/f/16579/

Upcoming book event! LOVE, LOSS AND LANDSCAPE with me and lovely @smpierce.bsky.social, hosted by @foldedorset.bsky.social who yesterday were named Best Indie Bookshop in the Southwest! Please join us on 22nd April, 7pm, The Grosvenor Arms Shaftesbury. Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/folde-dorset

Dawn at Sharpham Meadow where my son Felix rests. My memoir #TheGreenHill is out in paperback in April with @wiltonsquare.bsky.social - I’m doing some events with @foldedorset.bsky.social @goodgrieffest.bsky.social and others next month - talking love, landscape and loss - more info in bio

Thrilled to launch the 2nd #DartmoorTorsFestival - celebrating Dartmoor’s nature and culture. We’ve got talks, walks, performances and more .. shorturl.at/8ROTt @visitdartmoor.bsky.social @dpadartmoor.bsky.social @dartmoorcollective.org @dartmoorac.bsky.social

Quoit questing in West Penwith… a magical megalithic landscape. Pix show outside and inside of Chun Quoit. And a natural rock balance on the cliffs nearby….a pre-echo of these ancient graves ?

Sunday November 2nd 11-3 Moor Imaginations Centre, Buckfastleigh I’ll be selling Dart Map tea towels etc in aid of SUDEP Action and in memory of our dear Felix who died of SUDEP aged 20. Hope to see you there !

A huge thank you to everyone who's already ordered a copy - it really means the world to us. All the money raised by the zine goes directly back in to supporting future events, projects and publications promoting the work or artists and photographers working on Dartmoor.

Dartmoor Collective@dartmoorcollective.org · 10mo ago

The idea behind the brief for Flow was to create a theme that was open to wide interpretation but which would inspire artists to look beneath the surface of Dartmoor and explore how it is shaped as a landscape - by people, time, weather and water... (1/3) Image by: @theworldofmattp.bsky.social

Delighted that #TheGreenHill will be out in paperback from @wiltonsquare.bsky.social in April. And you can get 25% off if you pre order by Friday from @waterstones.bsky.social with code OCTOBER25 - link in bio

An enchanting evening listening to tales of Dartmoor told by Emma Cunis… enjoying not just the stories themselves but exploring why they still resonate with us today. And wonderful to be in such a historic and atmospheric venue - St Lawrence Chapel in Ashburton…whose walls could tell a few tales …

Spent a morning clearing vegetation around one of Dartmoor’s strangest oddities - the Rev Bray’s inscribed stones. 200 years ago he decided to carve poets’ names into boulders in the Cowsic valley. Some of the stones also have lines from the poems and others have Bardic runes….

The coach of bones : one of Dartmoor’s stranger stories .. I’ll be chatting to Emma Cunis about the moor’s many myths and legends at historic St Lawrence Chapel, Ashburton 9/10/25 - do join us! Tickets : dartmoortorsfestival.co.uk/tall-tales-a... @dartmoorcollective.org @visitdartmoor.bsky.social

Great new project : @ourdartmoor.bsky.social

Our Dartmoor@ourdartmoor.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Slowly adding listings to the "Our Dartmoor" directory ... Sophie Pierce - writer and broadcaster @smpierce.bsky.social Kate Gold - Artist & Poet Rachel Burch - Photographer I'm lucky to know all these ladies and it's great to have them onboard! Budget for this venture is ZERO - please share 💚

This is coming up next Tuesday here in Chagford: a remarkable evening with one of my favourite people, Alan Weisman (author of World Without Us, Gaviotas, etc.). If you're anywhere near Dartmoor, please come. And please share to help spread the word. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624630...

Terri Windling@terriwindling.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Local friends and those within traveling distance of Dartmoor: Please join us for a very special Celebrating the Earth event: Hope Dies Last, an evening with the bestselling American author Alan Weisman, one of our most important writers on humans’ relationship with the Earth. #naturewriting

Dartmoor has many weird and wonderful myths and legends - I’ll be delving into them with Emma Cunis aka Dartmoor’s Daughter - do come and join us 9/10 at atmospheric St Lawrence Chapel, Ashburton 7pm dartmoortorsfestival.co.uk/tall-tales-a... @visitdartmoor.bsky.social @dartmoorcollective.org

Huge congratulations @guyshrubsole.bsky.social ! Your tireless and meticulous research as well as brilliant writing is creating real social change .

Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Absolutely delighted that my book THE LIE OF THE LAND has won the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing! This week, one of the book’s recommendations, a ban on moorland burning, became a reality. Next, we need a Nature Bill for England… bsky.app/profile/wain...

A 5 hour swim/scramble down the Dart from Buckfast to Staverton. It’s the only way to see the river as both banks on this stretch are private. Now rather tired ….,

Excellent to hear @lewis-winks.bsky.social on the Today programme this morning discussing his research on 'Who owns the River Dart' - and why this shows we need a right of responsible access Listen here (45mins in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Guardian story: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Devon campaigners call for ‘right to riverbank’ after finding Dart has 108 owners

Research shows difficulties ahead for ministers if they are to keep manifesto pledge to extend riverside public access

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