Past Newsletters & Articles

Society News: The Dartmoor Society Comments for the DEFRA Food strategy Review
Tribute to Lucy Luxmoore
DNPA Forum on the Glover Review on Natural Landscapes
Archaeology at Risk Community Project
Livestock Deaths and Injuries on Dartmoor Roads
Member Profile: Chris Chapman
Pengelly Caves
Debate: The Secret Life of Dartmoor Birds
Research Lecture: Conservation Grazing with Dartmoor Ponies; Reducing Molinia Dominance and Encouraging the Germination of Calluna Vulgaris (Heather) on an Upland Site on Dartmoor
Burrator Tree Launch Event
New Dartmoor Book. Higher Shilstone Memories of a Medieval Farmstead on Dartmoor by Chris Chapman.

Society news: The Dartmoor Society 21″ AGM
Member Profile: Tanya Welch
Letters: Defra review of Designated Landscapes
Lewtrenchard Church, Forgotten Garden, and Coombe Trenchard House
The Dartmoor Society Debate. Dartmoor Stone
The Dartmoor Society Research Lecture. Stakeholder attitudes to the narratives of the Dartmoor Commons: tradition and the search for consensus in a time of change – Adrian Colston

Society news
Book notice: Dartmoor Resonance and the Story of Dartmoor Music
Chairman and Vice-Chairman
Gidleigh Common
AGM – 2019
Book notice: A Dartmoor Farmer, His Daughters and his Diary
Member ProPile: Alan Endacott
Letters: Mires Project
Cultural Heritage Priorities for Dartmoor 2018 Onwards
Hillyfield Woodland visit
Okehampton Camp visit
Dartmoor Resonance Music Festival
The Dartmoor Society Summer Barbecue
Corringdon Farm visit

Society News: ‘The Discovery of Sittaford Stone Circle – Its Context and Significance’ — Alan Endacott
Dartmoor Society Award 2016 to Miles and Gail Fursdon
Three Hares Project
Taw Valley Creamery

Society News: AGM, New Work on Conserving PCWW Stones, Grant for Major Dartmoor Conference on Dartmoor Tinworking and Tim Mining.
Dartmoor Charter Train Goes to Hungary
Jeremy Hatch
North Wyke House & Farm Grassland System
The Langaford Farm Charitable Trust Visit
Dartmoor Society Research Lecture ‘Dartmoor Weather’ Will Hand
Winter Revel
Tour of Buckfast Abbey

Society News: Audit of Railway Features and Structures DVD
Tim Harrod’s Soil Map of Northeast Dartmoor
Colin Pearce DS Award Winner Writes New Book
Gerald Quinn
Visit to Christow Station (Exeter & Teign Valley Railway)
An Exploration of Dartmoor Soils with Dr Tim Harrod
Dartmoor Society Walk & Barbecue
Visit to Moortown Farm, Gidleigh

Society News: Mires Project Update, 16th Annual General Meeting with talk by John Walters, Chagford Show & Widecombe Fair, Remember the Floods?
From the Membership Secretary
DNPA HER Office
Chapel & Church, Ashburton
Sharpham House
Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, Lympstone

Society News: Mires Project Update, DNP Management Plan — Dartmoor Society Comments, Development Management & Delivery
Letters: Subscription increase Judy Ehlen
Sibelco Clay Works
Crownhill Down Excavations
Summer Barbecue & Walk
Soussons Farm Visit

Editorial
Society News
Re wetting of Mires, Two Bridges Barn, Review of National Parks Governance,
Consultation on the “Dartmoor Way” DNPA Recreation & Access Strategy 2010-20171
Website Changes
Avon Valley Walk
Summer Walk & Barbecue, Haytor
Dartmoor Mires 5 July 2010 – Blackabrook
Peek Hill Farm Visit
Lydford Arts Day
Exmoor Mires 18 September 2010 — Squallacombe
Front Cover : Lucy Turmaine demonstrates painting techniques

Editorial
Society News
Steward Community Woodland — DNPA costs
Website changes coming soon
Executive Committee nominations for AGM elections
Responses and Comments made on behalf of the Society
Comment on Local Development Framework — Development
Management & Delivery — Development Plan Document 2006-
2026:Parts I-III
Response of the Dartmoor Society to “Protected Landscapes —
Natural England’s Draft Policy for Consultation 2009”
Walkingwith Llamas
Dartmoor Society Summer Barbecue
Visit to Sherril Farm
Walk to Cut Hill
The Dartmoor Society 12th Annual Debate Dartmoor Churches and Chapels.
Duchy Square Centre for Creativity, Princetown
Livestock Death & Injuries
Front Cover : Sheep at Foggintor Quarry, Richard Gearey

Editorial
Society News New Bridge English Heritage Decision, Rewetting the blanket peat of Dartmoor, The Military Loop Road, Widecombe in the Moor Tetra Mast,
Direct Elections to National Parks — DEFRA consultation
Executive Committee Nominations
Annual General Meeting, Belstone Village Hall
“Uplands matter to me” — a film by Natural England
Visit to Fernworthy Forest
2nd Annual Research lecture — ‘Facing Sin — Image and Identity
on Medieval Dartmoor’ By Sue Andrew.
Visit to Dartmoor Archive, Cornwood, 17 Jan 2009
The Dartmoor Society Revel 6 December 20082
Dartmoor Society website — the way forward
2008 weather statistics for Throwleigh
Finding a Spirit of Adventure — an interview with John Diplock 32
Front Cover : ‘Detail of Penitentia, Seven Sacraments window, C. 1480,
Doddiscombsleigh church’ Sue Andrew

Editorial
Dartmoor National Park Management Plan 2007 – 2012 by Dawn Hatton and Tom Greeves
Dartmoor National Park: Local Development Framework: Core Strategy Development Plan
Imerys and WBB Imerys press release Tom Greeves
Hemerdon Ball Tungsten/Wolfram Mine by Tom Greeves
Reports on Events 8 Visit to Renewable Energy Project, Dart Valley Country Park by Jonathan and Ralph Aylett
Inaugural Research Lecture Climatic and Environmental Change on Dartmoor: Lessons from Archaeology and Palaeoecology’. Dr Ralph Fyfe
DTRG Brimpts Tin Mines Trail Guide
Jonathan Lamming – Dartmoor Vet

Editorial
Society News
Comments on Dartmoor National Park Core Strategy
Comments on Draft Dartmoor National Park ManagementPlan 2007-2012
Visit to Deer Force 10
Summer Walk and Barbecue Report
Visit to Fernworthy Reservoir Report
The 10°’ Dartmoor Society Debate: ‘What Future for the Dartmoor Village?’ Report
Kenneth Day — Eden Phillpotts Aficionado

Editorial
Dartmoor Society Award 2006 Nigel Shaw and Carolyn Hillyer
Burrator Reservoir — SWLT Management Plan
by Toni Greeves and Keith Strelling
Housing Policy on Dartmoor by Toni Greeves
Livestock Deaths and Injuries on Dartmoor
Visit to Kelly Mine
Visit to Steward Wood Community
Visit to Watts Blake Bearne China Clay
Visit to Deer Force
Michael Jecks, Author of Medieval Murder Stories
Front cover: Rime frost on West Mill Tor, February 2006

Editorial
Research Fund Launch £500 donation from Dartmoor Magazine
The 2006 Annual General Meeting
The work of the Dartmoor Rescue Group — a talk by Bud Francis
Livestock Incidents 2005/06
Visit to Holne Chase by Jonathan Aylett
The proving mortar at Powdermills

Editorial
The Dartmoor Society Award 2005 Colin Pearce
Call for Public Inquiry on Den Brook Wind Turbines
Visit to Brimblecombe Cider by Peter Fillingham
Visit to Powdermills and Dartcom by Dave Hatton
Orchards Information Booklet
Executive Committee — Personal Statements of Candidates
Visit to Upper Merrivale Tin Mill
Visit to Holne Chase
Cryptic Moorland Walk
The Prison Farm, Princetown

Editorial
Charitable Status for the Society
New Bridge, River Dart
Visit to Huccaby Farm
Visit to Military Target Railway Sites
Visit to Shovel Down Excavations
Summer Barbecue and Walk
Extraordinary General Meeting and Charitable Status
What Future for Dartmoor Orchards?  Report.
Life at East Okement Farm
A Note from the Chairman Book by Mike Hedges Walking the Forest Bounds of Dartmoor

Editorial
Amanda Steers
The Dartmoor Society Award 2003: Marion Saunders
Dartmoor National Park Authority Local Plan Inquiry Details of DS comments
The Dartmoor Society and Hansard
Visit to Old Walls Hydro Plant
Visit to Buckfast Woollen Mill 10
Roger Michelmore – a lifetime’s career as a land agent

Editorial
New Committee Members
Lowery Barn
Summer Walk and Barbecue by Tony Hill
Debate: ‘The Military on Dartmoor’
Matthew McCann, Walkhampton furniture maker 23
The Baring-Gould Festival & Study Break by Paul Wilson
Front cover: Speakers and Chair at the 6th Dartmoor Society
Debate : Kate Ashbrook, John Loch, Jo Cole, Dr Tom Greeves,
Martin Coulson, Lt Col (Retd) Tony Clark, Lt Col James Porter.
(Photo © Mike Hedges)

Editorial
Bernard Raeke, Hon Treasurer
Livestock Deaths on Dartmoor
Dartmoor Folk Festival Association Sponsorship
Dartmoor Poetry Video
Annual General Meeting – Maureen Crosbie MBE gave a talk
on her working life as a teacher inside Dartmoor prison, Princetown
Visit to Roundhouse Reconstruction, Lower Merripit
Susanne Haines – Calligrapher and Artist.

Editorial
The Dartmoor Society Award 2002
Military Training on Cramber Tor Burrator
Livestock Deaths on Dartmoor
Visit to Gray’s Cider
Taking Action For Dartmoor’s Wildlife. A talk by Sue Goodfellow.
Stuart Arthur – Dartmoor Thatcher
COVER STORY Renewable Energy on Dartmoor –
a report on our October 2002 Debate

Is A National Park Good For Dartmoor?
Proceedings Of The Debate
Graham Ledger
Dartmoor National Park Local Plan: First Review 1995 — 2011 Dartmoor Society comments
Burrator Commercialisation
The Whitchurch-Grenofen ‘Runt Gateway’
Walk on Crownhill Down
Animal Deaths and Injuries, 2001/02
Annual General Meeting 2002
Walk in ‘Yarner Wood Nature Reserve
COVER STORY—The Duchy of Cornwall on Dartmoor

Chairman’s Comment
Open for Business — Just :The Impact of Foot and Mouth
Disease on the Cherrybrook Hotel
Fingers Crossed: Peek Hill Farm has avoided Foot and Mouth Disease, but life has been very different since the outbreak
A Global Job Swap: Canadian Ranger Chris McCarthy tells the Newsletter about his job swap experiences on Dartmoor
Development at Burrator
Development at Moretonhampstead
Your Views on Society Events
Dr David Keeling
Mrs Joan Widdicombe
Baring-Gould Study Day
Liaison with Army Training Estate SW

Fencing on Crownhill Down
Action for Wildlife: The Dartmoor Biodiversity Action Plan
Dartmoor Commons ESA Agreements – An Owner’s Perspective
By G.J.D. Dollard
National Importance of Burrator Lodge and Dam Recognised
Summer Walk, Runnage Farm Area
Picnic at Ducks Pool
The 3rd Dartmoor Society Debate: Dartmoor Tourism – How Much? By Judith Prichard
The Watershed Birds of High Dartmoor by Tony Archer-Lock
COVER STORY: Interview with John Lawrence, Governor, HM Prison Dartmoor
St Michael’s Church, Princetown

The 2000 Annual General Meeting and Illustrated Talk by Chris Chapman
Burrator Plans Rejected by Dr Tom Greens
Burrator 2000: 1996 and all that.. by Dr Keith Strelling
40 mph limit: Analysis of livestock deaths and injuries, 1999/2000
Response to Dartmoor National Park Management Plan
A Devon Papermaking Family by Mike Brown, Dartmoor Press
Visit to Hound Tor Mediaeval Village
Visit to Willsworthy Firing Range
COVER STORY DartCom
The Dartmoor 2000 Project by Mike Brown, Dartmoor Press

The Dartmoor Society Award — Geoffrey Weymouth
The Dartmoor 40mph speed limit
Lady Sylvia Sayer
SHARD – South Hams against Rural Destruction
Ducks Pool — Restoration of William Crossing Memorial
David German and Elizabeth Jarrold
Burrator Commercialisation
Towards the Wild’ – Report on the Moor Trees Conference
Dartmoor Society Revel
Report on the Visit to Stowford Mill, Ivybridge
Steven Woods: Dartmoor Photographer and Author

40mph Sub-Committee
The River Dart — A Note from Alice Oswald
The Dartmoor Society Award to Geoffrey Weymouth Dartmoor photographer
An Insight into Military Training on South Dartmoor, by Len Jones
Dartmoor Society Debate, UNLOVED AND MISUNDERSTOOD? – DARTMOOR BUILDINGS 1850 – 1950 by Judith Prichard

Buildings Sub-Committee Burrator
40mph Sub-Committee
Annual General Meeting and Talk by Lt. Col. Tony Clark OBE
Life at Peek Hill Farm COVER STORY
Report on visit to Watts Blake Bearne’s China Clay Works