Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Bus 98 (one daily, Monday to Saturday) runs to Princetown. Postbridge is also served by
the Transmoor Link ( Click here ) .
MYTHICAL DARTMOOR
Dartmoor is laced with myth, and tales of evil forces form a central part of its heritage. Often inspired by the
moor's shifting mists and stark, other-worldly nature, many revolve around the Dewer (the Devil). According to
legend, he leads his pack of phantom Wisht Hounds across the moor at night, rounding up sinners before driving
them off a 100m granite outcrop called the Dewerstone MAP . You can stroll to the Dewerstone from Shaugh
Prior ; an idyllic, but also at times chilling, half-mile riverside walk through woods of moss-smothered trees.
Shaugh Prior is 12 miles southeast of Tavistock.
Many think tales of the Wisht Hounds inspired The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
More devilish tales crop up at Lydford Gorge ( Click here ), and the St Pancras Church ( Click here ) at Widecombe-
in-the-Moor.
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Widecombe-in-the-Moor
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Widecombe is archetypal Dartmoor, right down to the ponies grazing on a village green
framed by honey-grey buildings and a 14th-century church. Widecombe (the 'in-the-
Moor' is dropped locally) is commemorated in the traditional English folksong, Wide-
combe Fair ; the event of the same name takes place on the second Tuesday of September.
Sights
St Pancras Church
MAP
St Pancras' immense 37m tower has seen it dubbed the Cathedral of the Moor. Inside,
search out the brightly painted ceiling bosses; one near the altar has the three rabbits em-
blem adopted by Dartmoor's tin miners. Look out too for the antique wooden boards
telling the fire-and-brimstone tale of the violent storm of 1638 - it knocked a pinnacle
from the roof, killing several parishioners. As ever on Dartmoor the devil was blamed and
said to be in search of souls.
CHURCH
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