The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust (DPHT) will gallop into 2021 with a fabulous new website making it easier for its valued supporters to keep up

We are delighted to announce that photographer Malcolm Snelgrove has become the charity’s new patron.

We are delighted to announce that photographer Malcolm Snelgrove has become the charity’s new patron.

The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust is looking for volunteers to help clear a bronze age village and other buildings on Lakehead at Bellever Forest near Postbridge this month.

Come along to meet the Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust’s Dartmoor ponies, find out all about them, enjoy interacting with them – and even adopt Rolo, Charlie, Smartie or George!

Dartmoor ponies are among the most iconic species of any British moorland but a dramatic decline in population since the 1950s has led to widespread concern about their long-term survival prospects and an urgent requirement to recognise their value as conservation grazers.

Langworthy Nuthatch was one of our first foals, born to us in 2006, which caused great excitement.

It’s believed that a record number of Dartmoor ponies enjoyed a wonderful tally of top placings at the UK’s most prestigious horse show, held last week at the NEC in Birmingham.

We were recently out at Bellever for a farrier day to trim the hooves of the ponies in our care that make up our conservation grazing herd on site.

This week we’ve been handling ponies from 3 different Dartmoor farmers. Some pedigree and some not; some for sale but others staying with their breeders or even – potentially- staying with DPHT!

Recently we had a very special group of visitors who wanted to find out about our work and meet our ponies.

The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust, whose Moorland site is on leased land at Bellever, Postbridge from Foresty England, has benefited from additional stone wall repair and construction training for its volunteer team who undertake so much good work at Bellever.

We are delighted to announce that photographer Malcolm Snelgrove has become the charity’s new patron.

We are delighted to announce that our good friend, Alex Graeme of Unique Devon Tours, has launched a rather unusual ‘Tour of Devon’ with the aim of raising funds for our charity and for the Donkey Sanctuary based at Sidmouth. 

The ponies are on two weeks holiday over the Christmas period as they need a break.

Councillor Avril Kerswell is well known within the Bovey Tracey and Teignbridge community, particularly for her roles in the local Council.

Shoppers at the Bovey Tracey, Devon Co-op stores at Riverside, Newton Road and Trago Mills, have helped to raise over £8,500 for local Charity, the Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust, through the Co-op Membership scheme.

A Dartmoor pony called Basil is taking on the role of ‘Dartmoor Reindeer’ to work with Father Christmas as he prepares for his travels all over the world on 24th/25th December!

The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust successfully set up the sale of 12 young Dartmoor ponies, bred on Dartmoor, to four different homes and worth an income of over £5,000 shared between four different pony keepers, during the last month. 

In partnership with the National Trust, we celebrated Apple Day at Parke this Autumn.

MEET THE PONIES AT APPLE DAY AT PARKE – Saturday 29th September from 11am to 3pm Parke Estate, Bovey Tracey.

September 9th – September 30th open 2pm- 6pm daily.

Please support the Dartmoor pony Moorland Show, 2 September at Princetown.

We had the ‘name the foal’ competition for a little foal whose mum is called Langworthy Nuthatch and dad Lickfolds Sebastian – and it had to be a bird name.

DUE TO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS A NEW DATE WILL BE SET. WE APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED.

As you know, we are in the process of reviewing our Open days and had put our original Summer 2018 calendar on hold. 

Again, a big Thankyou to you all.

Here is a good idea for keeping the family busy during half term – and enjoying an easy walk and exploration of Dartmoor!

Bovey Tracey-based Dartmoor Whisky Distillery has announced that it will be supporting the Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust (DPHT), initially by ‘adopting’ George, one of the