Dartmoor letterbox Survey Results

If You haven't filled in the survey yet, just click on the button below to do so, Many Thanks!

New:- Sarah Parrott who is a student at the University of Plymouth, is planning to build an online mapping system for letterboxing. She has an online survey to help her with this, which she would like as many people as possible to fill out. You can find the survey at:- http://ccc.domaindlx.com/sparrott/survey/index.asp

No of Respondants: 61

Age of Respondants     Under 18 11% 19 to 24 8% 25 to 34 21% 35 to 44 34% 45 to 54 16% 55 to 64 5% Over 65 3%

Frequency of Visits     Once or twice a year 33% 3 or 4 times a year 18% Once a month  26% Once a week 13% Every weekend 10% Nearly every day

Stamps Collected     Less than 10 11% 10 to 50 3% 50 to 100 10% 100+ 10% 200+ 5% 300+ 5% 400+  2% 500+ 13% 1,000+ 10% 2,000+ 7% 3,000+ 11% 5,000+ 7% 10.000+ 3%

Most Popular Sites     1 Duck's Pool 7 2 Fur Tor 4 3 Nuns Cross Farm 2 4 Railway inn 2 5 Fox Tor 2 6 Ivybridge Tea Room 1 7 Zeal Tor Tramway 1 8 John O' Groats,Lundy 1 9 Crow Tor 1 10 Doe Tor Brook Falls 1

Most Popular Stamps     1 Duck's Pool 3 2 Dolphin 3 3 The Next One 3 4 John O' Groats, Lundy 2 5 Fox Tor 2 6 Fur Tor 1 7 Cranmere Pool 1 8 Beardown Man 1 9 Honeybag Tor 1 10 Crane Hill 1

Stamps in a Day     1 2% 2 5% 3 2% 4 3% 5 3% 6 3% 7 2% 8   9   10 5% 11 to 15 5% 16 to 20 5% 21 to 30 20% 31 to 40 20% 41 to 50 7% More than 50 15%

Best Hiding Places     1 Fur Tor 4 2 Peat Passes 3 3 Remote Areas 2 4 CalveslakeTor 2 5 Feather Tor 2 6 O Brook Valley 2 7 Gull Rock, (Lundy) 2 8 Kings Tor 1 9 Fox Tor 1 10 3 Boys 1

Worst Hiding Places     1 Wet Places 7 2 Duck's Pool 3 3 Under Gorse 3 4 In Pubs 2 5 Hen Tor 1 6 Cut Hill 1 7 In Buildings 1 8 Kitty Tor 1 9 Fur Tor 1 10 Pupers Rock 1

 Well from the results so far, all ages seem to go letterboxing with most people being in the 25 to 55 group!, (who visit this site anyway!), but a lot of people are hardened boxers with very impressive stamp collections, and long walking days. There is also divided opinion on the best boxes, and worst, with Hen Tor and Ducks Pool featuring in both!

Duck's Pool has lept to the Top of the Most Popular Sites, and is one of the worst hiding places, but seeing as it's in a permanent structure we can accept that!. It's one of the easiest to find, but still tricky to get to, especially when it's wet! A nice walk when it's dry and sunny though!

Dolphin has become the most popular stamp, and can be found on the North Moor (Somewhere!).

The Lundy boxers are voting en-mass and taking the charts by storm, well two of them have! But they have put two of Lundy's boxes near the top, partly due I suppose to the limited number to vote for! Not strictly on Dartmoor, but still in Devon, so I included it, another pointer for the walker who likes the Extreme places! But we need more Dartmoor votes to even things up and give a truer picture!

A lot of the boxes, sites etc are getting just one vote at this stage, (hence the list isn't seem to be changing, - new boxes keep getting added to the survey with just one vote!), hopefully a little later on we'll be able to draw up a good idea of the truly popular and unpopular letterboxes! The more votes cast the better the overall picture will be!

May you all continue.

Thank you for taking the time to fill out the survey.

Please contact me with any relevant information about letterboxes, ie any new ones discovered, unsual boxes, or boxes that you have placed and want people to know about