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Bellever Ballad

Bellever Ballad

I was inspired to write this poem during October 2014, following a walk on the moor with my father and a drive home past Bellever and Princetown.  The ballad tells the apocryphal tale of a prisoner who escapes Dartmoor Prison and attempts to seek refuge in the rocks atop the tor… …

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Air Crashes Book

Air Crashes Book

Dartmoor Air Crashes Author – Robert Jones Publisher – The Dartmoor Company ISBN-10 – 0955515092 ISBN-13 – 978-0955515095 Format – 62 page paperback Price – £9.99p Dartmoor – the ‘Wildest Land‘, the ‘Last Wilderness‘ and for some the ‘Last Resting Place‘. Anybody who has been walking amongst the remote high …

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Adrian Oakes

Adrian Oakes

In the mid eighties Adrian Oakes moved to Devon when inspired by memories of childhood visits to Dartmoor he once again began exploring the vast open moorland. It did not take long for him to get a passion for the dramatic landscape of Dartmoor along with which came the desire …

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