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| Eden Phillpotts |
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Harrington Hext |
Eden Phillpotts (4 November 1862 – 29 December 1960) was an English author, poet and dramatist. He was born in India, educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for 10 years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming...
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| Princetown |
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Princetown is a town situated on Dartmoor in the English county of Devon.
In 1785, Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, Secretary to the Prince of Wales, leased a large area of moorland from the Duchy of Cornwall estate, hoping to convert it into good farmland. He...
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| Sabine Baring-Gould |
The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography lists more than 1240 separate publications, though this list continues to grow. His family...
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| The Hound of the Baskervilles |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialized in the Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West...
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| William Crossing |
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William Crossing (1847 - 1928) was a writer and documenter of Dartmoor and Dartmoor life. He lived successively at South Brent, Brentor and at Mary Tavy but died at Plymouth.
He was born in Plymouth, November 14, 1847. From his earliest youth he was...
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| The Dartmoor Worker |
The Dartmoor Worker is a collection, first assembled in 1966, of newspaper articles originally written for The Western Morning News by the principal authority on Dartmoor and its history, William Crossing, in the early 1900s. The book is illustrated...
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Ashburton, Devon |
Ashburton is a small town on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, adjacent to the A38 Devon Expressway.
It was formerly important as a stannary town (a centre for the administration of tin-mining), and remains the largest town within the National Park,...
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Postbridge, Devon |
Postbridge is a hamlet in the heart of Dartmoor in the English county of Devon. It is situated on the B3212, roughly midway between Princetown and Moretonhampstead.
Postbridge is situated next to the East Dart river, one of two main tributaries of...
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| River Avon, Devon |
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The River Avon, also known as the River Aune, is a river in the county of Devon in the south of England. It rises in the southern half of Dartmoor National Park in an area of bog to the west of Ryder's Hill. Close to where the river leaves Dartmoor...
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| Thomas Tyrwhitt |
Thomas Tyrwhitt (27 March 1730 – 15 August 1786) was an English classical scholar and critic.
He was born in London, where he also died. He was educated at Eton and Queen's College, Oxford (fellow of Merton, 1755). In 1756 he was appointed under...
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| River Plym |
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The River Plym is a river in Devon, England. Its source is 450m above sea level on Dartmoor, in an upland marshy area called Plym Head. From the upper reaches which contain antiquities and mining remains the river flows roughly southwest and enters...
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| River Dart |
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The River Dart is a river in Devon, England which rises high on Dartmoor, and releases to the sea at Dartmouth. Its valley and surrounding area is a place of great natural beauty.
The river begins as two separate branches (the East Dart and West...
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| Okehampton |
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Okehampton is a town and civil parish in Devon, England, at the northern edge of Dartmoor, on the River Okement. The border of the Dartmoor National Park is just south of the town.
Like many towns in the West Country, Okehampton grew on the Medieval...
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| River Teign |
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The River Teign (pronounced /tiːn/) is a river in the county of Devon, England.
Like many Devon rivers, the Teign rises on Dartmoor, near Cranmere Pool. Its course on the moor is crossed by a clapper bridge near Teigncombe, just below the...
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| Tavistock |
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Tavistock is a market town within West Devon, England on the River Tavy, from which its name derives, and has a population of 11,018. It traces its history back at least to AD 961, when Tavistock Abbey, whose ruins lie in the centre of the town, was...
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| Chagford |
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Chagford is a small town and civil parish on the northeast edge of Dartmoor, in Devon, England, close to the River Teign. It is located off the A382, about 4 miles or 6 km west of Moretonhampstead. The name Chagford is derived from the word chag,...
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| Lydford |
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Lydford, sometimes spelled Lidford, is a village, once an important town, in Devon situated six miles (13 km) north of Tavistock on the western fringe of Dartmoor in the West Devon district, 27 m. North of Plymouth.
The village has a population of...
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| Benjamin Williams Leader |
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Benjamin Williams Leader (1831-1923) was an English artist. Born in Worcester as Benjamin Leader Williams, he was the son of civil engineer Edward Leader Williams (who was also a keen amateur artist and friend of John Constable) and Quaker Sarah...
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| River Tavy |
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The Tavy is a river on Dartmoor, Devon, England: it has given its name to the town of Tavistock and the villages of Mary Tavy and Peter Tavy. It is a tributary of the River Tamar and has as its own tributaries the:
At Tavistock it feeds a canal...
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| John Oxenham |
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William Arthur Dunkerley (November 12, 1852 - January 23, 1941) was a prolific English journalist, novelist and poet. He was born in Manchester, spent a short time after his marriage in America before moving to Ealing, west London, in the 1880s, and...
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| Merrivale |
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Merrivale, Devon |
Merrivale (formerly also Merivale) is a locality in western Dartmoor, in the West Devon district of Devon, England. It is best known for the nearby series of Bronze Age megalithic monuments to the south and a former granite quarry.
The hamlet, which...
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| Widecombe-in-the-Moor |
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Widecombe-in-the-Moor is a small village located within the heart of the Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. grid reference SX718767. The name is thought to derive from 'Withy-combe' which means Willow Valley.
According to Widecombe's official...
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| Warren House Inn |
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The Warren House Inn is a remote and isolated public house in the heart of Dartmoor, Devon, England. It is the highest pub in southern England at 1,425 feet (434 m) above sea level. It is located on an ancient road across the moor, about 2 miles (3...
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| Grimspound |
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Grimspound is a late Bronze Age settlement, situated on Dartmoor in Devon, England. It consists of a set of 24 hut circles surrounded by a low stone wall. The name was first recorded by the Reverend Richard Polwhele in 1797 - it was probably derived...
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| Anna Eliza Bray |
Anna Eliza Bray (December 25, 1790 – January 21, 1883) was a British novelist.
She was the daughter of Mr John Kempe, and was married first to Charles Alfred Stothard, son of Thomas Stothard, R.A., and himself an artist, and secondly to the Rev....
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| Poundsgate |
Poundsgate is a small village in Dartmoor, Devon, England, located on the road between Ashburton and Princetown.
The postal area of "Poundsgate" is a wide geographical area. There are a few cottages clustered around a popular stopping point for...
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| Holne |
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Holne is a village and civil parish on the southeastern slopes of Dartmoor in Devon, England. A community has existed here since at least the 11th century, and today a population of around 250 people is served by a church and a public house, the...
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| Yelverton | Yelverton, Devon |
Yelverton is a large village on the south western edge of Dartmoor, Devon, in England.
The construction of the railway line, and Yelverton railway station, during the 19th century meant that it became a popular residence for Plymouth commuters - the...
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| Fox Tor |
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Fox Tor is a relatively minor tor on Dartmoor in the United Kingdom. It is probably best known for the swampy land that lies beneath it, Fox Tor Mires. This is said to have been the inspiration for the Grimpen Mire in the novel The Hound of the...
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| Bowerman's Nose |
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Bowerman's Nose is a stack of weathered granite on Dartmoor, Devon, England. It is situated on the northern slopes of Hayne Down, about a mile from Hound Tor and close to the village of Manaton at grid reference SX742805. It is about 21.5 feet (6.6...
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| Hound Tor |
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Hound Tor is a tor on Dartmoor, Devon, England and is a good example of a heavily weathered granite outcrop. It is easily accessible, situated within a few minutes from the B3387 between Bovey Tracey and Widecombe-in-the-Moor. Baring Gould said that...
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| Dartmoor Railway |
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The Dartmoor Railway is a 15.5-mile (24.9 km) long railway line in Devon, England. The line branches from the Tarka Line at Coleford Junction heading west, and serves Sampford Courtenay, Okehampton and Meldon. The route is owned by Aggregate...
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| River Taw |
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The River Taw rises at Taw Head, a spring on the central northern flanks of Dartmoor. It reaches the Bristol Channel 72km (45 miles) away on the north coast of Devon at a joint estuary mouth which it shares with the River Torridge.
As it heads north...
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| Two Bridges |
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Two Bridges is an isolated location in the heart of Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. It is situated around 2.5 km (1.6 mi) north east of Princetown on the old turnpike road which was built across Dartmoor in the late 18th century (now known...
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| Buckland in the Moor |
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Buckland in the Moor is a village and civil parish in the Teignbridge district of Devon, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 94. The village is in Dartmoor.
The church is made of stone quarried on the moor. The face of the...
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| Dartmoor reservoirs |
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Over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, a number of reservoirs and dams were built in the area now covered by Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England to supply drinking water to the rapidly growing towns in the surrounding lowlands. With...
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| Okehampton Castle |
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Okehampton Castle is a ruined motte and bailey castle situated in Devon, England.
The castle has Norman origins and dates from the late 11th century. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book (completed in 1086) which states that at that time it was in...
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| Hay Tor |
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Haytor or Hay Tor is a granite tor on Dartmoor in the English county of Devon. It is at grid reference SX757770. It is near the village of Haytor Vale in the parish of Ilsington. Until the late 18th century Haytor was known as Itterdown, and should...
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| Leusdon |
Leusdon is a Parish in southern part of Dartmoor in the county of Devon, UK.
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| East Webburn River |
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The East Webburn is a stream in the Dartmoor moors in Devon in south-west England. It rises on the western side of the moors flowing off the west side of Hameldon ridge. Its source is less than 1 kilometre south west of Grimspound Bronze Age...
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| River Lyd |
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For other rivers named Lyd see River Lyd (disambiguation)
The Lyd is a river rising at Lyd Head (Corn Ridge in NW Dartmoor) in the Dartmoor national park in Devon in south-west England and flowing into the River Tamar beyond Lifton. Lydford Gorge ...
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| West Webburn River |
The West Webburn is a stream in the Dartmoor moors in Devon in south-west England. It rises on the western side of the moors flowing off the east side of Hameldon ridge. Its source is extremely close to Grimspound Bronze Age settlement and it was...
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| Gidleigh Castle |
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Gidleigh Castle is in the small village of Gidleigh on the edge of Dartmoor some 3 km to the north-west of the town of Chagford, Devon (grid reference SX671884).
This was a fortified manor house built by William de Prouz around 1324.
It is now a...
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| Peter Tavy |
Peter Tavy is a village 3 miles along the A386, North-East of Tavistock, Devon, England; it is named after the River Tavy. St Peter's Parish Church is largely built of granite and has a buttressed west tower.
Near Peter Tavy Moor is the grave of...
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| Brent Tor |
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Brent Tor is a tor on the western edge of Dartmoor, approximately five miles (8 km) north of Tavistock, rising to 1100ft (330m) above sea level. The Tor is surmounted by the Church of St Michael, the parish church of the village of Brentor, which...
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| East Dart |
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The East Dart River is one of the two main tributaries of the River Dart in Devon, England.
Its source is to the west of Whitehorse Hill and slightly south of Cranmere Pool on Dartmoor. It flows south and then south-west for around 9 km to reach the...
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| West Dart |
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The West Dart River is one of the two main tributaries of the River Dart in Devon, England.
Its source is near Lower White Tor 1.5 km north of Rough Tor on Dartmoor. It flows south to Two Bridges, then south east past Hexworthy to meet the East Dart...
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| Gidleigh |
Gidleigh is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district of Devon, England. Gidleigh is located within Dartmoor National Park.
Historically the parish consisted of a number of farmsteads and associated cottages scattered around the focal...
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| Wheal Betsy Mine, Mary Tavy, Devon |
SX 510/810 OS Ref. Reopened in 1806, mining for lead, but closed by 1900. Shafts 840', 576', 480' and 30' in 1966. Many shafts filled in by military exercises. One stark Engine House house (preserved) remains, but another was apartently blown up....
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| Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway |
The Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway was a former 4 ft 6 in (1,372 mm) gauge horse-worked railway line in Devon, England. Most of the network had been replaced by conventional railways by 1888. The last surviving section, which continued to operate...
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| Eylesbarrow mine |
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Eylesbarrow mine was a tin mine on Dartmoor, Devon, England that was active during the first half of the 19th century. In its early years it was one of the largest and most prosperous of the Dartmoor tin mines, along with Whiteworks mine and the...
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| Hexworthy |
Hexworthy (pronounced /ˈhæksəri/) is a small village on Dartmoor, in Devon, England. It lies on the West Dart River a mile upstream from Dartmeet. The village was historically in the parish of Lydford, but since 1987 has been in the civil parish of...
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