Earl of Dartmoor Reynolds.
Dartmoor and Totnes aren't far away.
Wild camping is only legal in parts of Dartmoor(and even here there's small print).
For this portrait of William Lake, Second Earl of Dartmoor, Reynolds chose the pose that Van Dyke often used.
In 2008, as part of BBC2's Natural World series, he presented a 50-minute documentary from Dartmoor, which was watched by over 3.6 million people.
In 2008, as part of BBC2's Natural World series, he presented a 50-minute documentary from Dartmoor, Earth Pilgrim, which was watched by over 3.6 million people.
In Polwhele's histories of Devonshire(1797), he
wrote of Dartmoor as“one of the principal temples of the Druids”, as evident in iconic Dartmoor sites such as Grimspound, Bowerman's Nose and Crockern Tor.
Many Victorians first encountered Dartmoor through Rowe's writings but the discussion of
these texts in my history of modern Dartmoor shows that a new generation of preservationists and amateur archaeologists did not take Druidical theories very seriously.