Dartmoor: A Beautiful Place In All Seasons.

[Bakunin]

Well, I think so anyway and I had the great good fortune to grow up there.

Dartmoor's one of those rare places that is beautiful in all seasons, in a different series of ways. From the depths of winter, when it's usually at its wildest and most untamed, to high summer when a pint of the local ale or scrumpy goes down very nicely after a few miles on foot, Dartmoor can be a terrific place to visit and especially to live. I didn't realise what I was giving up until I moved into the city, not by choice but by necessity.

It's a lovely place and certainly worth a visit if you're ever in the area. Having spent more than twenty years living there, I miss it terribly at times.

 

[lizzieloo]

Beware the bogs mind!!

 

[Bakunin]

Beware the bogs mind!!

Oh yes.

You could easily march a regiment into areas like Foxtor Mire and never see them again. Us locals tend to avoid them for that very reason. Get lost in one bogs and you're in real trouble and no mistake.

 

[djbombscare]

Beware the bogs mind!!

I usually go before I leave home...

or you can go out to Crapstone

 

[Wolveryeti]

Lovely place. Go every year for camping and Liberty Caps and marvel at how nice it is.

 

[Geri]

I've only ever been to the prison.

 

[Bakunin]

I've only ever been to the prison.

Ummm, yeah. Not exactly the garden spot of the Dartmoor National Park, I'll grant you that.

'The Moor' as it's known to staff and inmates alike, is still perhaps the single most depressing place in the area. It has a lousy reputation as the dumping ground of the British penal system and that doesn't seem to have changed much even nowadays.

 

[Cribynkle]

It's beautiful, my parents house looks out on it and whenever I go back I'm amazed at how little I appreciated it when I lived there.

 

[Zaskar]

I lived there for a bit - the winter was best.

 

[Idaho]

Not been up to the Moor for a while. I could go tomorrow for a walk....

 

[jusali]

I was brought up on Dartmoor too! Just outside of Buckland in the moor

 

[two sheds]

Nice thread, reminds me of how much i like round here (Cornwall) during winter, too. Particularly when it's all misty over the moors with the old engine houses "like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven."

 

[Elpenor]

I went to this exhibition today at the RAMM (Exeter city museum basically)

Dartmoor: a radical landscape

Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape - RAMM

Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape is a major new contemporary art exhibition exploring Dartmoor's evocative landscape through photography, film and Land Art. Showing artwork from 1969 to 2024, this exhibition demonstrates Dartmoor’s attraction to artists who, through photography, explore current...

rammuseum.org.uk

I have been a bit annoyed with myself that I live so close to Dartmoor and can see Haytor from my garden, yet I never go there. So I hoped coming to the exhibition would provide some inspiration to get up there next year - or even next week.

This was a collection of photography and video art about the landscape.

The one that really connected to me was one of the pieces specially commissioned by Alex Hartley called The Summoning Stones - hopefully it’s visible below.
I was struck by the connection of earth, stars, stone and sun. Permanence. But the passage of time shows on the stones like pockmarks on skin, the seven stones reminded me of aged noses.



Worth seeing if nearby, it’s £6 but I got a lot out of it.

 

[Idaho]

I'm planning to see that when my daughter's back.

If you want to see more of the moor, let me know. I can drag you across bog, tor, woodland and moor

 

[ChrisD]

I went to this exhibition today at the RAMM (Exeter city museum basically)

Dartmoor: a radical landscape

Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape - RAMM

Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape is a major new contemporary art exhibition exploring Dartmoor's evocative landscape through photography, film and Land Art. Showing artwork from 1969 to 2024, this exhibition demonstrates Dartmoor’s attraction to artists who, through photography, explore current...

rammuseum.org.uk

I have been a bit annoyed with myself that I live so close to Dartmoor and can see Haytor from my garden, yet I never go there. So I hoped coming to the exhibition would provide some inspiration to get up there next year - or even next week.

This was a collection of photography and video art about the landscape.

The one that really connected to me was one of the pieces specially commissioned by Alex Hartley called The Summoning Stones - hopefully it’s visible below.
I was struck by the connection of earth, stars, stone and sun. Permanence. But the passage of time shows on the stones like pockmarks on skin, the seven stones reminded me of aged noses.



Worth seeing if nearby, it’s £6 but I got a lot out of it.

Worth buying the postcards at the shop too… discounted price if you show your exhibition ticket.

 

[Elpenor]

Worth buying the postcards at the shop too… discounted price if you show your exhibition ticket.

I didn’t know about any postcards and I didn’t get a ticket

I’m not sure I would use them though

 

[Elpenor]

I'm planning to see that when my daughter's back.

If you want to see more of the moor, let me know. I can drag you across bog, tor, woodland and moor

Would certainly be up for this some time!