The Museum is faced with Portland stone, but the perimeter walls and other parts of the building were built using Haytor granite from Dartmoor in South Devon, transported via the unique Haytor Granite Tramway.

Phillpotts also wrote many other books with a Dartmoor setting.

Some clues may also be found in other letterboxes or on the Internet, but this is more commonly for letterboxes in places other than Dartmoor, where no " 100 Club " or catalogue exist.

In the 1890s he published numerous other works and his Guide to Dartmoor, illustrated by Philip Guy Stevens in 1909.

The area was sparsely inhabited and inhospitable, being used mainly as a resource by people living on its fringes, much as in other places in Britain such as Dartmoor, the Fens and the Forest of Arden.

A clapper bridge is an ancient form of bridge found on the moors of Devon ( Dartmoor and Exmoor ) and in other upland areas of the United Kingdom including Snowdonia and Anglesey.

However, there are many other smaller examples in existence on Dartmoor and still in use, such as those at Teignhead Farm ( close to Grey Wethers stone circles ), Scorhill and across the Wallabrook stream.

* The purchase of off-site property, including the Wellington Sports Grounds and a centre at Lovaton on Dartmoor where the School carries out some of its Duke of Edinburgh Award training as well as other activities.

Several other groups were also evacuated by helicopter after weather conditions in the training area, Dartmoor National Park, deteriorated.

After calling in the Dartmoor Rescue Group and helping the other team, X2414 walked in at 17: 19, almost twenty minutes after the close of the event-this would normally debar a team from receiving their awards.

Crazywell Pool is the subject of other Dartmoor superstitions.

In memory of Dartmoor author William Crossing a plaque and letterbox were placed at Duck's Pool by some members of a walking club known as Dobson's Moormen and other people in 1938.

It soon became an opportunity to show and sell other livestock-particularly locally-bred sheep and Dartmoor ponies, and by the 1920s it had also become a sports day for local schoolchildren.

Excavations at other sites on Dartmoor have shown that such walls were probably built by small teams of men working simultaneously on a section each, as shown by differences in building style ; some evidence of this is visible here.

The line is leased to and maintained by the Dartmoor Railway CIC, who operate heritage railway services and facilitate access to the line by other operators.

To address this situation, as well as to increase the stock's hardiness and restore native type, in the early 20th century animals from other British native mountain and moorland pony breeds such as the Fell, Dales, Highland, Dartmoor, and Exmoor were introduced to the Forest.

In Britain, this is the most common form of sundew and can be found on Exmoor, Dartmoor, Sedgemoor, the Lake District, Shropshire, and Pennines in Scotland, among other places.

The hill commands extensive views, including west past the Isle of Portland to Dartmoor, and east to the Isle of Wight, as well as north across the Purbeck Hills to Poole Harbour and the other Purbeck Marilyn, Nine Barrow Down.

He also proposed that a prison be built on Dartmoor to house the thousands of captives of the Napoleonic Wars and the later War of 1812, who had become too numerous to lodge in the prisons and prison-ships at Plymouth.

Similar prisons were subsequently erected at Dartmoor, Chatham, Portsmouth and Isle of Wight.

During this time de Valera was held at Dartmoor, Maidstone and Lewes prisons.

A year later however the Chief Inspector of Prisons declared that Dartmoor had made substantial improvements to its management and regime.

* In the first episode of the second series of James May's Man Lab, James May and Oz Clarke were demonstrating map-reading skills by pretending to escape from Dartmoor prison and cross Dartmoor to their escape car ( although they had to start their escape from outside the prison grounds as they were not allowed permission inside the prison ).

The area once known as the Turbary of Alberysheved between the River Teign and the headwaters of the River Bovey is mentioned in the Perambulation of the Forest of Dartmoor of 1240 ( by 1609 the name of the area had changed to Turf Hill ).

Dartmoor Prison was built in 1806 at a cost of £ 130, 000 and at one time had a capacity between 7, 000 and 9, 000 prisoners.

Peter, a sailor, had been briefly imprisoned by the British at Dartmoor Prison during the Napoleonic Wars ; he broke jail, made his way back to the sea, and later left his ship in New Orleans, where he used his savings to buy then-inexpensive land northwest of Lake Pontchartrain.

In September 2010 the RSPB announced that a pair had raised chicks at a secret location on Dartmoor where the bird last bred in 1970.

Another myth, from Dartmoor, tells of a princess who wanted to marry an elven prince, but according to tradition had to bathe in pure cream first.

By 1965 Jay's Grave had become a major Dartmoor attraction, with tourist coaches stopping there while the driver / guide related his own version of the story.

One story tells of a farmer who had recently moved to Dartmoor and was foolish enough to criticise the sheep on sale at Tavistock Market.

Dartmoor National Park Committee ( DNPC ) was the first in the country to appoint a leader, in October 1973, and by the time the Committee became operational on 1 April 1974, many of the necessary officers had already been appointed.

He was convicted of treason felony and sentenced to 15 years of penal servitude in Dartmoor Prison ; Davitt felt that he had not had a fair trial or the best of defence.

Dartmoor granite has been used in many Devon and Cornish buildings.

Farming has been practised on Dartmoor since time immemorial.

In his book Guide to Dartmoor he refers to what is likely to have been the first letter box.

By the 10th century such Anglo-Norse crosses were the bulk of the production in England, as the high cross seems to have been abandoned further south, although the simple and practical Dartmoor crosses, no doubt an essential aid to navigating Dartmoor, appear to have continued to be made for centuries after.

This may have been due to silting up of the harbour caused by tin mining on Dartmoor.

The acidic soil of Dartmoor has destroyed nearly all organic material ; it is therefore difficult to tell what Grimspound must have been like during its occupation.

Dartmoor tin-mining would have been a major part of the South Devon economy throughout its history.

Dartmoor is thought to have been settled by Mesolithic hunter-gatherer peoples from about 6000 BC, and they later cleared much of the oak forest, which regenerated as moor.

Mainline Rail ceased to trade, and the Dartmoor Railway was suspended on 18 April 2008 ( although services have since been resumed ), while ECT was seeking a buyer for its stake in the Weardale line.

Their leader, one Roger Rowle, has been variously characterised both as a blackhearted villain and as the Robin Hood of Dartmoor.