The West Country (Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset) is one of the English areas where fairy belief survived the longest, though even in ‘Celtic’ Cornwall there is evidence that belief and even knowledge of piskeys, the most famous regional fairy, was crumbling after about 1850.
Breage Piskey Fair (Cornwall)
Landgreek (Cornwall)
Men-an-Tol (Cornwall)
Piskey House, Bosahan (Cornwall)
South-western Fairy Beliefs
South-Western Fairy Tales
Paul Church Town (song, Cornwall)
South-Western Fairy Sightings
Branksome Park Fairy Sighting (Dorset)
Fairy at Lupton House (Devon)
Fairies and Milk (Cornwall)
Pixies on the Border (Cornwall/Devon)
Pixy Sighting at Widecombe-in-the-Moor, late 1950s
Unearthly Noises at the Piskey House
Good books on West Country fairies include:
Andrews, Stuart and Jason Higgs Paranormal Cornwall (Stroud: History Press, 2010), chapter six contains fairylore
Bottrell, William Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall (Penzance: Bear and Son 1870-1880), I-III (the last volume entitled Stories and Folklore of West Cornwall)
Broadhurst, Paul & Hamish Miller The Sun and the Serpent: A Journey of Discovery through the British Landscape, its Mythology, Ancient Sites and Mysteries (Pendragon Press 1989)
Brown, Theo Devon Ghosts (Norwich: Jarrold Publishing 1982), 128-133 for a short but very valuable chapter on pixies
Dathen, Jon Somerset Faeries and Pixies: Exploring Their Hidden World (Milverton: Cappall Bann Publishing, 2010)
Deane, Tony and Tony Shaw The Folklore of Cornwall (London: B.T.Batsford 1975)
Hunt, Robert Popular Romances of the West of England (London: Chatto & Windus 1881) [first edition 1865] for free pdf from the Archive
Palmer, Kingsley The Folklore of Somerset (London: Batsford 1976)
St Leger-Gordon, Ruth Witchcraft and Folklore of Dartmoor (Peninsula Press 1994)
Weatherhill, Craig and Paul Devereux Myths and Legends of Cornwall (Wilmslow: Sigma Leisure, 1994)