Churches of Dartmoor

Brentor Church

Buckfastleigh Church

Buckland Church

Keble Martin's Chapel

Sheepstor Church

There are many churches and chapels on Dartmoor which range from the magnificent 'Cathedral of the Moor' at Widdecombe to the small humble chapel of St. Raphael. For centuries the church has played an important part in the lives of moorfolk. At one time some of them had to walk a good few miles to attend a service or bury their dead as the numerous Church Paths will testify. Probably the most significant tract is the Lych Way, or 'Way of the Dead'. This was a path used my the dwellers of the ancient tenements in the Forest of Dartmoor to get to the church at Lydford. Not all of the churches are places of sanctity as various dark forces have and are at work in them ...