Posts Tagged ‘BowermansNose’
Witches and the Wild Hunt Storywalk
This has been our second year leading a storywalk as part of the Dartmoor Outdoor Festival, and these walks are always extremely popular. The focus for our walk this time was witches and the wild hunt, which are recurring folkloric motifs in Dartmoor stories, and we were treated to a suitably atmospheric and misty day…
Read MoreBlack Dog Folklore Walk Supports Community Gallery
As part of the Dartmoor Tors Festival, the DPA put on a Black Dog folklore walk to raise money for Field System gallery in Ashburton. Field System is a vibrant and inclusive community space, where we screened the recent Dartmoor Calling film about activism and also where we had the launch event for our Wild…
Read MoreWitches Triangle Partnership Walk
On Saturday the 18th of October, we hosted our final partnership walk of the year, a collaboration between the DPA and David Phillips of Moors and More tours. Being so close to Halloween, it was the perfect time to visit some of the spookier locations on Dartmoor and learn about the stories attached to them.…
Read MoreWalking the Witches Triangle
Our second Halloween guest article, from local ghost walk leader David Phillips, features the famous tale of Bowerman himself. The granite pillar, known as Bowerman’s Nose, is included on the DPA’s logo, with the more streamlined rocks on our newest design still chosen to resemble his profile. Growing up in Bristol, we would often spend…
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