Dartmoor
Dartmoor's moorland is a wide open landscape with unbroken skylines and ridges. Tors emerge from these desolate hills, providing focal points across the landscape. The high moorland is overlain with thick deposits of peat and form internationally important blanket bogs; these bogs are surrounded by large expanses of heathland and grass moorland. The moorland, whilst appearing wild and unmanaged, is looked after by commoners who graze cattle, sheep and ponies, maintaining its distinctive character.
Dartmoor is a special place to me personally: it’s where I spent many happy days of my childhood enjoying family walks and picnics, and to this day I frequently visit, often in the depths of winter, to wild camp on its windswept tors and in its enchanted forests, and it’s also the perfect place to observe the stars at night.
