Witches and the Wild Hunt Storywalk

By Helen Bruce | September 18, 2026 |

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…

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Witches Triangle Partnership Walk

By Helen Bruce | October 19, 2025 |

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.…

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Walking the Witches Triangle

By Helen Bruce | October 28, 2024 |

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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