Includes books about or referencing Hoar Oak Cottage (marked with *) as well as books about the history and heritage of Exmoor more generally.
This list gives the citation for books and, if known, where a copy is kept or may be obtained from. This is a work in progress and will be added to. Please check back for updates.
Title
Author, Publication and ISBN No.
Availability
* The Heritage of Exmoor
* Simonsbath. The inside story of an Exmoor Village
R. A. Burton (1989) ISBN 0951441906 Self-published
R.A.Burton (1994) ISBN 0951441914 Self-published
Available in or to order from public libraries. Purchase online.
Available in, or to order from, public libraries. Purchase online.
* A Little History of Exmoor
H Bourne (1968) Publ. JMDent & Sons London.
Available in, or to order from, public libraries. Purchase online.
Yesterday’s Exmoor
H Eardley-Wilmot (1990) ISBN 086183173 X Publ. Exmoor Books
Available in, or to order from, public libraries. Purchase online
*Exmoor Sporting & Otherwise
H.J.Marshall (1948) Publ. Eyre & Spottiswoode London
Available in, or to order from, public libraries. Can be purchased online.
*The Reclamation of Exmoor Forest
C.S.Orwin & R.J.Sellick (1970) Revision of 1929 edition. ISBN 0715349597 Publ. David & Charles
Available in, or to order from, public libraries. Purchase online.
Exmoor Memories.
A.G.Bradley (1926) Publ. Methuen & Co London with 16 illustrations
Can be found to purchase online.
A History of the Forest of Exmoor
Edward T MacDermot (1973) including new introduction by R J Sellick (1973). Reproduction of original 1911 edition includes author’s revisions of 1939 with certain other corrections and amendments compiled from his papers in 1972. ISBN 0 7513 5752 2 Publ. David and Charles Reprints.
Can be found to purchase online and in some libraries.
A Filthy Barren Ground. Exmoor in the 1850s. An evocation of life on the Moors recorded by the Rev William Thornton first curate of the Parish of Exmoor 1856 – 1861
An Exmoor Microstudy from B-C Press. ISBN 1 899010 35 1 Copyright Victor Bonham-Carter First published 1998.
Available to purchase online. Also try www.exmoorsociety.com.
More to come…..