Articles

Swincombe Farm
Paul Rendell visits the ruins of this farm building beside the River Swincombe. Near the River Swincombe is the lost hamlet of Swincombe with the

Virtuous Lady Mine
Paul Rendell looks at Virtuous Lady Mine (SX 47340 69850) alongside the River Tavy in the parish of Buckland Monachorum on the Maristow Estate. Today

Visitors to Fur Tor
Paul Rendell opens up the visitors book to see what comments have been made. There has been a letter box at Fur Tor since 1951.

Donald Sutherland on Dartmoor
By Paul Rendell Donald Sutherland, actor, was born on 17 July 1935 and died after a long illness on 20 June 2024, aged 88. He

The Tale of Billy’s Tor
Paul Rendell looks at a very small and over looked tor near Princetown. There is a small outcrop of rocks on the lower slopes of

Dartmoor Hospitals
By Paul Rendell The flat piece on moorland between Whitchurch and Horrabridge called Plaster Down was once a busy army camp run by the 115th