Dartmoor & Exmoor trees

In the early summer of 2014 I visited Hucken Tor on Dartmoor. I encountered some beautiful and interesting trees. Hucken Tor is unusual in that it is a wooded tor, this adds to its sense of mystery. Until then I had hardly visited Dartmoor in Devon and did not visit Exmoor until some years later. Both are unique and surprisingly distinct from one another.

Thanks to Conan Doyle’s ‘Hound of The Baskervilles’ many of us think we ‘know’ Dartmoor. Until you visit it though nothing can prepare you.

‘Hucken Tor is a little remote - I had to walk about four miles into the moor to find it. As it was summertime I had the wonderful experience of a sense of immersion into a plethora of verdant shades of green. The residual images that stayed with me as I headed back up the motorway were of those vibrant greens. Subsequent visits to other parts of Dartmoor and to Exmoor, at different times of the year inspired a more varied colour pallet.’

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