Dartmoor is riddled with 
                                                                  stories of folklore, superstition 
                                                                  and legends and one of the 
                                                                  most renown is the story of 
                                                                  Kitty Jay and Jay's Grave.
                                                                  At the turn of the 18th and 
                                                                  19th Centuries she was 
                                                                  a pauper girl from the 
                                                                  workhouse at Newton Abbot.
                                                                  It is sometimes difficult these 
                                                                  days to appreciate what it must 
                                                                  have been like to be poor and live, 
                                                                  or try to live at that time. All sorts 
                                                                  of folk ended up in the workhouse; 
                                                                  orphans, paupers and other 
                                                                  completely destitute people and 
                                                                  these "unfortunates" were a drain 
                                                                  on the Parish Purse. One such 
                                                                  person was Kitty Jay..........