Why Beyond Dartmoor

                                     image source: http://www.letterboxing.org

This sole purpose of this blog is to list clues and discuss one of my favorite hobbies, letterboxing. I chose the name of this blog because while the hobby began in Dartmoor England in the 19th Century, it has become popular in the United States and elsewhere and has transformed into it's techie sister geocache. To find out more about letterboxing, you should click the photo above to be transported to the official Letterboxing of North America site http://www.letterboxing.org/ or http://www.atlasquest.com

clipped from en.wikipedia.org

Letterboxing originated on Dartmoor in the 19th century and has become increasingly popular in recent decades. Watertight containers, or 'letterboxes', are hidden throughout the moor, each containing a visitor's book and a rubber stamp. Visitors take an impression of the letterbox's rubber stamp as proof of finding the box and record their visit by stamping their own personal stamp in the letterbox's logbook. A recent related development is geocaching. Geocache clues make use of GPS coordinates, whereas letterboxing clues tend to consist of grid references and compass bearings.

clipped from en.wikipedia.org

Dartmoor is an area of moorland in the centre of Devon, England. Protected by National Park status, it covers 954 square kilometres (368 sq mi).^[1]

Parts of Dartmoor have been used as a military firing range for over two hundred years. The public enjoy extensive access rights to the rest of Dartmoor, and it is a popular tourist destination. The Park was featured on the TV programme Seven Natural Wonders as the top natural wonder in South West England.

The granite upland dates from the Carboniferous period of geological history. The moorland is capped with many exposed granite hilltops (known as tors), providing habitats for Dartmoor wildlife. The highest point is High Willhays, 621 m (2,037 ft) above sea level. The entire area is rich in antiquities and archaeology.