THE EXMOOR BIBLIOGRAPHY

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION

ABBREVIATIONS

A - ARCHAEOLOGY and PREHISTORY

B - BUILDINGS IN HISTORY, RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS

C - COAST - SHIPS AND HARBOURS

D - COUNTRY SPORTS and PASTIMES, including RAMBLING

E - THE DOONES - Fact, Fiction, Legend

F - ETYMOLOGY - PLACE NAMES and DIALECT

G - THE EXMOOR NATIONAL PARK (ENP)

H - FICTION - Poetry, Prose, Plays and Anthologies

I - GENEALOGY, BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGAPHY

J - GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY and MINING, including RIVERS and INLAND WATERS

K - GUIDE BOOKS, MAPS, and RIGHTS-OF-WAY

L - HUSBANDRY - FARMING, FORESTRY and CONSERVATION

M - INDUSTRY, RAILWAYS and ROADS

N - LOCAL HISTORY - Life on the Land and Pictorial

O - METEOROLOGY and CLIMATE

P - TRADITIONS, FOLKLORE and LEGENDS

Q - FAUNA and FLORA, including HORSES/PONIES

R - REMINISCENCES - ANECDOTES and BELLES LETTRES

S - COOKING - FOOD  etc.

T - JOURNALS - SELECTED PERIODICALS and NEWSPAPERS

U - VIDEOS and AUDIOS - (V) and (A)

V - TOURISM

INTRODUCTION

This is a select bibliography, revised and expanded from the original version issued by the Exmoor Society in 1959.  In the first instance it was composed by John Goodland, later revised by Tom Spink and issued three times.  Another revision was undertaken in 1971 by Arthur Griffiths and Victor Bonham-Carter and published with the Exmoor Review 1972.  A comprehensive edition, completed in 1989 by Roger Miles and Victor Bonham-Carter, was issued in 1990.  The present edition was brought up to 2000 by Victor Bonham-Carter and Ian Mallard. The Somerset and Devon local history librarians and others provided help and advice with several sections.

There may be gaps and, no doubt, some errors.  Some omissions are deliberate.  Not every pamphlet has been mentioned, nor has it been possible to list more than a handful of articles about Exmoor and its fringes in popular or specialist journals.  Similarly, books lacking a sufficiently strong Exmoor element have been omitted, although some - with good early illustrations or good bibliographies of their own - have gained a place.  Finally the Exmoor Review has been left unplumbed because a complete Index to the first 35 Volumes (1959-1994) has been published by the Exmoor Society and now updated digitally by Sean Beer.

Most of the dates listed in this Bibliography refer to the first edition, wherever known.  Some of the sections overlap in sense, which is inevitable; and so, where a work contains more than one strong element, a double entry has frequently been made.  'Anon' is entered first in any section where it occurs, but where a title is the work of several hands, authorship is usually indicated by a dash and placed at the end of the list.  Abbreviations are liberally used for reasons of space, and are separately recorded.

ABBREVIATIONS

• Education Services
• Pinkery
• Publications
  • Exmoor bibliography
  • archaeology and prehistory
  • buildings in history, religious denominations
  • coast, ships and harbours
  • country sports and pastimes, including rambling
  • the Doones, fact, fiction, legend
  • etymology, place names and dialect
  • Exmoor National Park
  • fiction, poetry, plays and anthologies
  • genealogy, biography, autobiography
  • geography, geology, mining, rivers
  • guide books, maps and rights of way
  • farming forestry conservation
  • industry, railways, roads
  • local history, life on the land and pictorial
  • meteorology and climate
  • traditions, folklore and legends
  • fauna and flora, including horses and ponies
  • reminiscences, anecdotes and belles lettres
  • cooking and food
  • journals, periodicals and newspapers
  • videos and audios
  • tourism and recreation
  • Literary associations
• Wildlife
• Landscape
• Climate
• Tides
• Communities
• Historic Environment
• Fun Zone