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The following events have been organised over the next few months. More details can be found in our Newsletters. New events are normally added to the website to coincide with Newsletters being posted.
Please use the Book Now buttons to book places and pay online. If you are a Dartmoor Society member please sign into the Member Centre beforehand so you can book places for members-only events and not need to enter all your contact details every time.
Alternatively you can download and print a booking form and post it to us together with a cheque to cover any payment to The Dartmoor Society, PO Box 38, Tavistock, PL19 0XJ.
When our events are over-subscribed, waiting lists are created. If you find that you cannot attend an event you have booked for, please contact the Honorary Secretary as soon as possible. Your place can then be allocated to someone else.
Saturday 10th June, 10:30am – 4:00pm
In 2012 the Dartmoor Society initiated a project to ensure that all PCWW stones on the boundary of the MoD Cramber Tor Training Area between South Hessary Tor and the Scout Hut were in good condition for the centenary of their erection in 1917.
In celebration of completion of the project, there will be a walk led by Tom Greeves, starting from the parking area at SX 579674 below the Scout Hut near Gutter Tor at 10.30am.
The walk will visit all nineteen of the PCWW boundstones between there and Nuns Cross (none of those between Nuns Cross and South Hessary Tor needed remedial treatment). Most of the stones have been uprighted or had hollows around them filled.
A picnic lunch (bring your own) will be enjoyed in the vicinity of the remarkable inscribed Syward’s Cross, perhaps dating from the mid-11th century.
The return walk will explore some of the very fine archaeological remains of Ailsborough Tin Mine, one of the most successful moorland mines of the early 19th century, with extensive shafts, mills, wheelpits, pumping flat rod systems, leats, and its own smelting house.
Friday 14th July, 6:00pm
Herons Brook, South Zeal, EX20 2PY (SX 649929)
Members Wilf and Helen Hodges again have very kindly offered their home and garden as the venue for this year’s popular summer BBQ.
There is space for parking on the field, and if that overflows then people will be directed to nearby parking places at the time.
There will be a guided walk (optional) at 6pm, followed by the barbecue (with buffet) at 7.30pm.
