Dartmoor National Park Authority

Promoting Cultural Heritage

Promoting the understanding and enjoyment of the special quality of Dartmoor’s cultural heritage is an important aspect of the Authority’s work. This is approached in a number of ways, but helping owners understand what it is they own and its part in the wider cultural heritage of Dartmoor is, of course, a major way.

Others include participating in the annual event of Heritage Open Days (external link, opens new window) or hosting National Park Authority events specifically focused on the cultural heritage, such as ‘Hands on Heritage’ held in Princetown in 2005.

Specialist officers lead guided walks and give talks to local communities. Provision of a range of interpretive and advice literature and the "Moor Memories" oral history project is providing an insight into Dartmoor life in the last century. Developing from this is Virtually Dartmoor, (external link, opens new window). which will provide on-line virtual tours to various Dartmoor locations in the company of people who know their subjects well.

Page updated 7 December 2009