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Some Good Books

Title	Author	Publisher	Date	ISBN
Widecombe-in-the-Moor A Pictorial History of a Dartmoor Village	Stephen H Woods	Devon Books	1996	0 86114 908 4
Early Dartmoor Farmhouses Longhouses in Widecombe	Elizabeth Gawne & Jenny Sanders	Orchard Publication	1998	1 898964 31 9
An Exploration of Dartmoor and its Antiquities	JHW Page	Seeley and Co London	1895
Dartmoor Legends Retold	TH Gant and WL Copley	Baron Jay, Plymouth	None
The Heart of the Moor	Beatrice Chase	John Pegg Publishing (facsimile edition)	1988 (original 1914)	0 9508598 7 7
A Perambulation of Dartmoor	Samuel Rowe	Commin, Exeter Gibbings, London	Orig 1848
Dartmoor Seasons (Delightful)	Elizabeth Prince Photos by John Head	Devon Books	1987	0 86114-793-6
Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Vol 1 The East	Jeremy Butler	Devon Books	1991	0 86114 866 5
Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Vol 5 The Second Millennium BC	Jeremy Butler	Devon Books	1997	0 86114 910 6
Old Dartmoor Schools Remembered	Mary Stanbrook	Quay Publications (Brixham)	1991	1 870083 35 0
Walking Dartmoor's Ancient Tracks	Eric Hemery	Robert Hale London	1986	0 7090 2582 3
Poems on Widecombe-in-the-Moor and Neighbourhood	John L Webber	Wood & Tozer, Electrical Works, Fore Street, Devonport	1868/70??
Dartmoor Region Monumental Inscriptions Indexes Volume 19 Widecombe (pre-1950 Survey) Leusdon (Pre-1950 Survey)	Mike Brown	Dartmoor Press
Devon Topographical Prints 1660-1870	JV Somers-Cocks
Field Names in Widecombe-in-the-Moor	Hermon French		1963

Some Links that are well worth following (now organised by category):

Don't forget the WebRing

Devon Sites

Devon County Council

Devon Local Studies Service Homepage

All of England Search Portal

Devon County Council Monthly Community News Round-up

Tourism Sites

Visit Britain

The Devon Holiday Directory (over 1000 links to web sites full of information for visitors to Devon - attractions, towns and villages, museums and gardens, pubs, restaurants and accommodation.

British Towns Network

Dartmoor Sites

Dartmoor National Park Authority

Dartmoor Crosses a site with information about the well-known Dartmoor landmarks.

Dartmoor & West Devon - Gerry Sargent's site about Dartmoor and West Devon. There is a vast amount of stuff here, especially about Western Dartmoor. There is also a good Dowsing link from this site, with some good photographs.

The Dartmoor Society - an society promoting and celebrating Dartmoor

Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust - a charity committed to saving the Dartmoor Pony

Dartmoor Pony Training Centre - a non-profit voluntary organisation set up to help promote and train Dartmoor Hill Ponies

Dartmoor Legends - a site focussing on the legends, folklore, history and archaeology of the moor