Haytor

MORE than £10,000 was raised for the Dartmoor Search and Rescue charity on Sunday as a group of 150 people set off from Haytor on a gruelling 18-mile walk to Shaldon along the Templer Way. The mayor of Bovey Tracey, Cllr Ulli Arnold, got the walk ...

A MAN was taken to hospital after falling over at a Dartmoor beauty spot over the weekend. The 65-year-old casualty fell at Haytor Rocks late on Saturday afternoon. He suffered a dislocated knee in the tumble which happened at 5pm. The man, who has not ...

Over 100 people are expected to take part in the April 24 trek which is due to start at Haytor and finish in Shaldon. Alan Pewsey, the Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team's fundraising officer, said: "This year our group is celebrating its 40th anniversary ...

Then as snow began to drift down out of the darkening sky and as I sheltered in the lee of the lowering presence of Haytor rock, above the low moan of the wind, there arose a horrible growling. “Ugh, is that your stomach?” asked my girlfriend, Gill ...

THE Devon hotel where Torquay's Queen of Crime Agatha Christie created Hercule Poirot has been sold for £1.2million. The Moorland Hotel at Haytor on Dartmoor, is where Christie spent two weeks in 1916 writing The Mysterious Affair at Styles — the book ...

The Moorland Hotel at Haytor, where Dame Agatha Christie spent two weeks writing The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1916, which introduced the soon to become world famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, has been sold to a westcountry based company.