Dartmoor's Daughter
Dartmoor's Daughter
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Explore. Learn. Enjoy: Walks, Talks, Tours and Nature-Connection Experiences. Dartmoor’s Daughter creates guided walks and immersive, nature-connection experiences to improve physical health and emotional wellbeing, and to inspire greater care for our natural world. Public, private and group tours are available.
Dartmoor National Park, Devon, England
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2024
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Emily
Dartmoor National Park, UK1 contribution
May 2023 • Couples
What a grounding and joyful experience. Tony, who’s knowledge on birds is amazing, led us through an enchanting dawn chorus walk starting at 3am! Even though it was pretty dark to begin with during the start while we walked through the woods, Emma was incredibly attentive that you always felt held and supported during the experience. It was such a beautiful thing to witness, to be in the woods sitting quietly and still before the dawn chorus begins, then gradually starting to hear it very quietly in the distance, then getting nearer and louder until you hear the birds all around you - felt very moved by the experience. Also having Tony help identify particular bird song was greatly appreciated as it’s something that I hope to get better at. Thank you!
Written 15 May 2023
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Lisa R
1 contribution
Aug 2024 • Business
Emma was truly amazing, warm and fun on our family community walk. Adults and children alike were fascinated by her facts and stories inspired by our walk. She responded to the group’s needs and kept us safe and happy. I’d definitely work with Emma again in a heartbeat!
Written 12 August 2024
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Inspire51869487813
1 contribution
Jun 2024 • Solo
Emma is a simply wonderful guide with a wealth of knowledge and experience of Dartmoor. The day I attended was a brilliantly well crafted full day of walking on Summer Solstice, exploring the sacred crescent of 8 stone circles on Dartmoor.
What I particularly loved about Emma's guiding during the day was the very good balance she struck between giving us such well honed and relevant information about Dartmoor and the places we were visiting, and giving us time and space to explore and feel into each place ourselves. It was empowering added to the magic of the whole experience to really drop into each place and feel what could have happened here? She gave us so many book references and told us many interesting stories along the way and she also gave us such valuable space to trust our intuition, and to dream into what each of these sacred places could have been.
It was very impressive that Emma designed this walk with a good amount of time in each place, a responsive pace (she checked in with us periodically on how everyone was doing with the pace and adjusted accordingly), and without making the day feel too long. I felt amazing after the walk, and we arrived back at the perfect time I felt, where we were all enlivened by the walk, but not over tired due to a long day. I felt this was down to Emma's many years of experience leading these walks, and that she had refined her offering over the years and found what works.
Thorough recommended - go walk with Dartmoor's Daughter! You won't regret it.
What I particularly loved about Emma's guiding during the day was the very good balance she struck between giving us such well honed and relevant information about Dartmoor and the places we were visiting, and giving us time and space to explore and feel into each place ourselves. It was empowering added to the magic of the whole experience to really drop into each place and feel what could have happened here? She gave us so many book references and told us many interesting stories along the way and she also gave us such valuable space to trust our intuition, and to dream into what each of these sacred places could have been.
It was very impressive that Emma designed this walk with a good amount of time in each place, a responsive pace (she checked in with us periodically on how everyone was doing with the pace and adjusted accordingly), and without making the day feel too long. I felt amazing after the walk, and we arrived back at the perfect time I felt, where we were all enlivened by the walk, but not over tired due to a long day. I felt this was down to Emma's many years of experience leading these walks, and that she had refined her offering over the years and found what works.
Thorough recommended - go walk with Dartmoor's Daughter! You won't regret it.
Written 31 July 2024
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nadia n
1 contribution
Dec 2023 • Family
Emma met us on a very damp Christmas Eve 2023 and tramped five of us up and around a foggy Dartmoor for two wonderful hours!
Loads of stories and information about the area and is historic residents and quarrying activities which was fascinating.
I would thoroughly recommend Emmas services and hope to come back again soon
Thank you
Loads of stories and information about the area and is historic residents and quarrying activities which was fascinating.
I would thoroughly recommend Emmas services and hope to come back again soon
Thank you
Written 28 December 2023
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Inner_peas_2
London, UK16 contributions
Jul 2023 • Solo
I attended Josephine Collingwood’s Geology of Dartmoor walk in July. Jospehine did a sterling job on the day, managing, despite the inclement weather, to communicate complex geological ideas and facts to an audience ranging from complete novices through to a few rusty geology graduates. I came away with a much clearer idea of the geological history of Dartmoor and a lot of new facts about processes that took place in deep geological time and some that are still happening today. Josephine’s enthusiasm for her subject and her exceptional communication skills made this a really entertaining and informative walk.
Written 24 July 2023
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Inner_peas_2
London, UK16 contributions
Oct 2024 • Couples
We recently attended one of Dartmoor Daughter’s Fungal Forays and can’t recommend it highly enough. It was led by Dr Christian Taylor and organised by Emma and Daniel Thompson-Mills of the Steward Community Woodland. It was great fun but also very informative. Christian is an expert with an impressive CV but, almost more importantly, he is a real enthusiast. We were quite a diverse group with a common interest in fungi clearly but varying levels of knowledge, but we were all swept up in Christian’s enthusiasm for, and knowledge of, fungi! We ended with a camp fire where we could taste some of the mushrooms Christian had collected together with some of Emma’s home-made shitake mushroom soup. It was a great introduction to the world of fungi and I suspect we will be booking ourselves on the Intermediate course in the near future!
Written 25 October 2024
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Dru Butterfield
4 contributions
May 2022
Thank you Dartmoor’s Daughter (Emma) and Tony Whitehead (RSPB) for a beautiful entry to birdsong identification. I never expected to be so emotionally connected to the woodland and its inhabitants.
Introduction in the early hours was very welcoming and friendly. The short meditation was wonderful. The group settled and were able to adjust to night vision and tune into the nighttime bird calls. We heard Nightjar, with their fascinating churrr and the comforting call of several Tawny Owls.
We walked into the woods by torchlight, nobody knew what anyone looked like. But everybody felt good! We had a half moon so lights were kept pointed down and to a minimum.
We stopped several times to hear Tony in his rumbling, humorous and gentle manner. A man with a vast knowledge and generosity of spirit, sharing his passion.
Tony asked us to stop and drink in the silence, before our next stop the forest glade. Our destination for the dawn chorus. He asked us to consider the 100’s of birds all around waiting for first light. That got me thinking, sometimes in a wood, you can be daft enough to think they are a bit empty, but of course the birds are there. Everything is there, we are blind to everything happening whilst we ignorantly traipse through, so rarely taking time to really look or listen.
At the glade we spread out, made ourselves comfortable and waited. One, then two, slowly it built.
It was like listening to a band warming up, one starts up, then another, slowly they rippled up the valley from the east. The cacophony of song hit us with full force.
I ended up in a meditative state asking some large life questions. In my own life and why l was feeling that way. Is this what a true connection with nature does to you, is it the pitch of song? The lack of sleep? The clean air? Is surrounding yourself with other humans who feel love, love in its simplest form. Deep appreciation for the glory of our birds, trees, everything above and everything below. The system working?
Emma and Tony called out a Wolf Howl to call us in. Tony helped us identify Robin, Song Thrush, Gold Crest, Blackbird, Cuckoo and Wren.
Later as we walked back the haunting notes of Blackcap, Pied Wagtail and Chaffinch.
The finale was a beautiful Song Thrush high up on a branch singing for all he was worth. Bravo
Would l do it again, of course please reserve my place for next year!! Thanks Dru 🙌 🙏😍🙏
Introduction in the early hours was very welcoming and friendly. The short meditation was wonderful. The group settled and were able to adjust to night vision and tune into the nighttime bird calls. We heard Nightjar, with their fascinating churrr and the comforting call of several Tawny Owls.
We walked into the woods by torchlight, nobody knew what anyone looked like. But everybody felt good! We had a half moon so lights were kept pointed down and to a minimum.
We stopped several times to hear Tony in his rumbling, humorous and gentle manner. A man with a vast knowledge and generosity of spirit, sharing his passion.
Tony asked us to stop and drink in the silence, before our next stop the forest glade. Our destination for the dawn chorus. He asked us to consider the 100’s of birds all around waiting for first light. That got me thinking, sometimes in a wood, you can be daft enough to think they are a bit empty, but of course the birds are there. Everything is there, we are blind to everything happening whilst we ignorantly traipse through, so rarely taking time to really look or listen.
At the glade we spread out, made ourselves comfortable and waited. One, then two, slowly it built.
It was like listening to a band warming up, one starts up, then another, slowly they rippled up the valley from the east. The cacophony of song hit us with full force.
I ended up in a meditative state asking some large life questions. In my own life and why l was feeling that way. Is this what a true connection with nature does to you, is it the pitch of song? The lack of sleep? The clean air? Is surrounding yourself with other humans who feel love, love in its simplest form. Deep appreciation for the glory of our birds, trees, everything above and everything below. The system working?
Emma and Tony called out a Wolf Howl to call us in. Tony helped us identify Robin, Song Thrush, Gold Crest, Blackbird, Cuckoo and Wren.
Later as we walked back the haunting notes of Blackcap, Pied Wagtail and Chaffinch.
The finale was a beautiful Song Thrush high up on a branch singing for all he was worth. Bravo
Would l do it again, of course please reserve my place for next year!! Thanks Dru 🙌 🙏😍🙏
Written 22 May 2022
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Safari41239965497
Chagford, UK2 contributions
Apr 2023 • Friends
Emma led a group of eleven young people (aged 11-15) with three other adults on an eight-mile expedition from Belstone to Scorhill. Her planning was exemplary, her safety briefing clear, and her leadership of the walk outstanding. Throughout the six and half hour expedition she took opportunities to enthuse, inspire and inform the young people, including teaching them to cross a (shallow) river-ford. We could not have had a better guide.
Written 14 April 2023
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ruthiwotton
Bristol, UK10 contributions
Jul 2023 • Solo
Excellent Geology walk led by Josephine Collingwood who conveyed the complex history of the rocks of the moor in a brilliantly comprehensible and memorable way. Keeping everyone’s enthusiasm up despite the wet weather.
As always with Dartmoor’s Daughter’s walks a well thought out route in a beautiful location, a brilliant way to explore Dartmoor
As always with Dartmoor’s Daughter’s walks a well thought out route in a beautiful location, a brilliant way to explore Dartmoor
Written 1 August 2023
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Karen Sanders
2 contributions
May 2022
To be in Yarner Woods as dawn broke was magical especially with our expert bird guide Tony who guided us through the dawn chorus. Tony who is very knowledgable about birds, nature and the moor, informed us about bird behaviours and individual songs in small chunks throughout our walk.
Emma’s walks are always very well organised and provide insights to the moor that you would miss on your own. Always enjoyable.
Emma’s walks are always very well organised and provide insights to the moor that you would miss on your own. Always enjoyable.
Written 25 May 2022
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smdacosta8
Trinidad and Tobago
Hello, does this tour go to any waterfalls? Does it include camping? Are there any horseback riding facilities in Dartmoor? -Simone
Written 10 May 2018
Hello Simone. We have many different types of publicly scheduled walks and activities - our calendar is on the Dartmoor’s Daughter website. And we can also create a bespoke itinerary just for you. If you could kindly email or telephone with further detail of your dates, interests, activity levels, riding experience, budget, group, etc then we can send you some options for consideration. Look forward to hearing from you. Warm regards Emma
Written 11 May 2018
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