Haytor - Transcripts
Haytor Down
Haytor Common
Saddle Tor
Haytor Rock
Smallacombe Rocks
Haytor Quarry
Yarner Wood
- John Weir - Welcome to Haytor Down
- Alison Kohler - A long hisotry of visitors to the area
- Deborah Griffiths - A managed landscape
- John Weir - The National Park, owned by many private landlords
- Nick Atkinson - The National Park Authority's ownership of Haytor Down
- Ian Mercer - The purchase of the area in 1975
- Maurice Retallick - Managing the common
- John Weir - What's on offer to the visitor
- Arthur Courtier - Visitors in the early 20th century
- Deborah Griffiths - Agatha Christie at the Moorlands Hotel
- Michael Wiles - Visiting the Moorlands Hotel in the 1960s
- Wendy Cox - The National Park Authority Information Centre
- Kevin Page - A Site of Special Scientific Interest
Haytor Common
- Deborah Griffiths - Managing the common
- Sue Eberle - Raising cattle on the moor
- Maurice Retallick - Changes in varieties of stock on the common
- Arthur Courtier - Traditional varieties of stock
- Sue Eberle - Controlling moorland vegetation by burning
- Maurice Retallick - The swaling process
- Arthur Courtier - Swaling in the past
- Anne Came - Swaling as children
- Sue Eberle - The Dartmoor Pony
- Sue Colwill - Keeping Dartmoor Ponies on Haytor Down
- Sue Eberle - The importance of the pony for managing the common
- Anne Came - Ponies grazing on the moor
Saddle Tor
- Sue Goodfellow - The special features of Dartmoor's ecology
- Norman Baldock - Western heath
- Bill Allen - The purple and gold of the heather and gorse
- Norman Baldock - Management through burning and grazing
- Sue Goodfellow - The Dartford warbler on Dartmoor
- Michael Wiles - Bird species found on Haytor Down
- Norman Baldock - Many varieties of lichens found on Saddle Tor and Haytor
- Sue Goodfellow - The significance of the lichens found in the area
- Norman Baldock - The wildlife found in valley mires
- Bill Allen - Controlling the increase of bracken on the Down
- Arthur Courtier - Cutting 'ferns' (bracken) for animal bedding
- Maurice Retallick - Changes in weather patterns
- Sue Goodfellow, The effects of Climate Change
Haytor Rock
- John Weir - The view from Haytor Rock
- Kevin Page - 400 million years of history within the view
- Alison Kohler - Extensive opportunities to explore on Haytor Down
- John Weir - Eden Phillpotts
- Phil Newman - The goldfish in the quarry pond
- Bill Allen - The goldfish in the quarry pond
- Alison Kohler - Formal recreational activities on Haytor
- Bill Allen - People visit all year round
- Sue Colwill - Increased numbers of visitors
- Alison Kohler - Managing the large number of visitors to the area
- Bill Allen - The role of the National Park Authority Ranger
- Alison Kohler - Managing the erosion on the Down
- Bill Allen - Enjoying the snow on Haytor
Smallacombe Rocks
- Willem Montagne - Smallacombe Rock on Haytor Down
- Deborah Griffiths - Prehistoric round houses and enclosures
- Willem Montagne - Haytor Down as an educational resource
- Deborah Griffiths - The survival of Dartmoor's archaeology
- Jane Marchand - Prehistoric roundhouses on Dartmoor
- Deborah Griffiths - Prehistoric climate change on Dartmoor
- Willem Montagne - Children's response to Dartmoor
- Deborah Griffiths - The history of boundary markers on the moor
Haytor Quarry
- Phil Newman - The industrial heritage of Haytor
- Deborah Griffiths - The tin streaming process
- Phil Newman - The extent of tin streaming and the beginning of granite quarrying
- Kevin Page - Haytor granite
- Helen Harris - Working the quarry
- Dave Hannaford - Cutting granite using the feather and tare process
- Helen Harris - The evidence of feather and tare work
- Deborah Griffiths - The granite tramway
- Helen Harris - The granite tramway
- Andy Crabb - Maintaining the granite tramway
- Helen Harris - The closure of the granite quarries
Yarner Wood
- Phil Page - Yarner Wood
- Rupert Lane - Dartmoor's woodlands
- Sue Goodfellow - Woodland lichens
- Phil Page - Coppicing woodland for charcoal production
- Rupert Lane - Charcoal production
- Phil Page - The Yarner copper mine
- Phil Newman - The Yarner copper mine
- Phil Page - Yarner Wood National Nature Reserve
- Deborah Griffiths - How to get to Yarner Wood
To the left you will find a list of audio transcripts for the Princetown tour.
