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Dartmoor Towns  

Although this page is called Dartmoor Towns, that should be loosely interpreted to include villages & hamlets. After all, everything is relative. I have a friend who comes from a farm, who refers to South Zeal as 'the town'.

Dartmoor is contained inside a diamond of town gateways -

Okehampton (North), Moretonhampstead (East), Ashburton (South) & Tavistock (West).

 

Here are some towns, villages & hamlets, found in most guide books about the moor -

 

Towns

Eden Phillpotts Dartmoor Cycle Novels

 

Ashburton
   
Belstone
The Secret Woman (Methuen, 1905)  
Bovey Tracy ?
 
South Tawton parish
Brentor
 
Bridestowe
The Portreeve (Methuen, 1906)
Buckfast
 
Buckfastleigh
 
Buckland in the Moor
Orphan Dinah (Heinemann, 1920)
Burrator
 
Chagford
Children of the Mist (A. D. Innes, 1898)
Christow
 
Cornwood
 
Crockernwell
 
Dean Prior
 
Drewsteignton
 
Dunsford
   
Gidleigh
Sons of the Morning (Methuen, 1900)  
Harford(& Erme Valley)
Brunel's Tower (Heinemann, 1915  
Haytor Vale
   
Hennock
   
Hexworthy
   
Horndon
   
Holne
Demeter's Daughter (Metheun, 1911)
Sky over Cosdon
Ilsington (& Yarner Wood)
The Forest on the Hill (John Murray, 1912)
Lewtrenchard?
 
Lustleigh
 
Lydford
The Whirlwind (Chapman & Hall, 1907)
Manaton
 
Mary Tavy
 
Merivale
The Mother (Ward, Lock, 1908)
Michelcombe
 
Moretonhampstead
 
North Bovey
 
Okehampton
The Portreeve (Methuen, 1906)
Peter Tavy
 
Ponsworthy
   
Postbridge (& East Dart)
The Thief of Virtue (John Murray, 1910)  
Poundsgate
   
Princetown
   
Scorriton
 
Shillstone Rocks
Shaugh Prior
The Three Brothers (Hutchinson, 1909)
Sheepstor
The Virgin in Judgment (Cassell, 1908)
Sourton
 
South Brent(& Avon Valley)
Children of Men (Heinemann, 1923)
South Tawton
The Beacon (T. Fisher Unwin, 1911)
South Zeal (& Cosdon Beacon)
The Beacon (T. Fisher Unwin, 1911)
Staverton
 
Sticklepath
 
Tavistock
 
Throwleigh
 
Two Bridges (& West Dart)
The River (Methuen, 1902  
Whiteworks (& Fox Tor Mire) Miser's Money (Heinemann, 1920)  
Widecombe
Widecombe Fair (John Murray, 1913)  
Wreyland
   
Yelverton