Jodie Newton
A love of Dartmoor
"Between the North and the South Hams (for that is the ancient name) there lieth a chain of hills, consisting of a black earth, both rocky and heathy, called by a borrowed name of its bareness, Dartmoor." (Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor 1912) My family and I visited Dartmoor when I was a child, we lived only a short distance from the edge of the Moor in a village on the River Teign. We would drive up to Haytor near Bovey Tracey and walk from the car park to the quarry or climb