Dartmoor Monday 23rd June – Monday 30th June 2025
Dartmoor is one of my favourite places in the world. It is just too immense to capture, not only on camera but within ones mortal heart and imagination. If the landscape could talk it would sigh; a deep, sonorous, knowledgeable sigh lasting eons. A Romantic interpretation? Yup! It has that effect.
Please email me a brochure.
Dartmoor is one of the few places where we have a right to roam so we can follow paths but also make our own way across the landscape. The walking holiday on Dartmoor in brief:-
- Seven nights Monday to Monday.
- five full days and two half days of walking and visits included.
- Dinner, Lunch, Bed and Breakfast included with many restaurants to choose from for dinner.
- Packed lunches, transportation, special visits and an upload of photos of the weeks walks also included.
- Group will be between minimum five and a total of nine people.
- This is a walking holiday where fitness is fairly important. While a couple of days will comprise of two or three short walks the others are longer and once we start the walk it is a case of being out “in the wilds” of the Moor. I’m very happy to chat about that with you
- Dartmoor is the largest expanse of unglaciated upland in Great Britain and the largest Granite surface in England.
- In terms of wildlife Dartmoor is internationally important due to its blanket bogs, wet heaths, oak woodlands and cave system whilst nationally important for its rhos pastures, valley mires and grass moors.
- There are 28 key species and 15 key wildlife habitats.
- It has been a National Park since 1951.
- 65% of Dartmoor is granite intruding 295 million years ago into the surrounding Devonian slate, shales and sandstone.
- Tin, copper, lead, silver and iron have been mined on Dartmoor over the centuries. Many of the mine workings and old tramways are still there to see.
- Archaeological remains include 1200 scheduled monuments including one of the only areas to see collections of burial chambers, cairns, stone rows and circles and round houses dating back 6000 years. We visit Grimspound an enclosure of huts from the Middle Bronze Age.
- Dartmoor ponies (around 1500 of them) are essential to the conservation of the Moors and so they graze much of the area of Common Land.
- There are 766 footpaths with 727kms to walk with 47000 hectares of public access. Should be enough for a week:-)
- Around 34000 people live within Dartmoor National Park with Ashburton its largest town with 4000 people.
The walking day on Dartmoor starts with a great breakfast at the Duchy House B&B We go out between 9 and 9.30am in Ellie the walkitcornwall VW 9 seater to any of the many areas I have for our days walk.
One walk or even two shorter walks will be a total of between six and eight miles (9- 13kms). We return at between five and six pm to prepare for a short trip to one of the many local restaurants.
With 15 key wildlife habitats and landscapes of international and national importance there are 448 miles (774km) of footpaths and access to hundreds of square miles of all the common land. There are many walks to choose from.
With over 50% of the landscape over 300metres and 16% above 460metres there will always be views to enjoy in the 368 square mile (954 sq km) National Park not forgetting archaeological sites dating back 6000 years, ancient woodlands and of course the Dartmoor ponies.
Email me for a detailed brochure to help you decide whether you would like to come for a great walking holiday on Dartmoor.
