 The annual Abbots Way Walk on the 1st Sunday in October on its way from Buckfast Abbey to Tavistock pass with 500 m of Whiteworks.The hamlet appears in the novel "Miser's Money", by Dartmoor author Eden Phillpotts.The area around Whiteworks also provided inspiration to Arthur Conan Doyle for the Sherlock Holmes story "The Hound of the Baskervilles"