During this year I shall be posting photographs from places around the UK, many of which have not been published before. Where I have previously blogged about a location I will provide a link to the post, though you won’t be able to comment on it as I restrict comments to six months.
D is for Dartmoor
Dartmoor National Park is a vast moorland in the county of Devon, in southwest England. Dartmoor ponies roam its craggy landscape, defined by forests, rivers, wetlands and tors (rock formations).
We had an incredible day driving around Dartmoor National Park back in June 2022, stopping in various places to have a short stroll to admire the views.
click here to read more about my Dartmoor visit
TRAVEL WORDS 
Topical post as it’s in the news a lot these days!
It’s so vast, how one can tell one landowner from another must be nigh on impossible. Problem arose over the lockdown years when some people camped and destroyed the land and left litter.
Yes, I heard about that. “Litter” often being a polite euphemism, so I heard.
Not many facilities on the moor…
I’ve never been. Always thought I might get there on a visit to Gilly, but that never happened 😕💗
Watching Tsitsipas battle as Mick’s under the weather so we can’t walk.
It is a wonderful landscape in good weather. We were lucky.
It is so long ago since I went to Dartmoor, I had to sit and think when that was. My best guess is 1990, or 1991. I was holidaying in Looe in July, and it rained heavily every day. We went to Dartmoor for a change of scene, but had to look from the car as it was too bleak to walk around! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. x
Must be a miserable place in the rain. You’d have been better off going into Exeter.
You mentioned the Early Neolithic in your previous post. I found out more about the history of the region: “Dartmoor contains the largest concentration of Bronze Age remains in the United Kingdom, which suggests that this was when a larger population moved onto the hills of Dartmoor…. Numerous prehistoric menhirs (more usually referred to locally as standing stones or longstones), stone circles, kistvaens, cairns and stone rows are to be found on the moor.”
Indeed. There is a lot of history in our very small island.
Love the landscape Jude 🙂
Beautiful photos, especially that East Dart River one – very green and lush!
There is of course a reason for all that lushness and greenness.
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Lovely scenery – especially around the Dart river with the old bridges (in your earlier post). I would be very happy to spend a sunny afternoon there. 🙂
On a sunny day it is glorious.
What a beautiful countryside. I enjoyed the link to your other Dartmoor post. 🙂
Thank you. It is rather lovely.
Except courtesy of your blog, I’ve never visited Dartmoor. I’m missing out.
Well you do have the Yorkshire Moors and Dales not to mention the Lakes and North Pennines on your doorstep.
True. But I want it all!
That’s greedy 😋
Great set of photos in your previous Dartmoor post. I remember the Widdecombe Fair song from my childhood. Thanks for the reminder. 😘