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A Book of Dartmoor
1900
Baring-Gould's great survey of the moor: its tors and antiquities, tin-workings, rivers, weather, legends and people, written by the squire-parson of Lew Trenchard who knew Dartmoor as few did. His flagship Dartmoor work and still one of the most quoted.
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By Sabine Baring-Gould. See the Sabine Baring-Gould author page for the full list of his Dartmoor and Devon books.
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Plate from Children of the Mist, page 6, 1898“On New Year's night the buckets in the prison froze solid in four hours. The running stream that supplied all the buildings with water was ice to the bottom ; the prisoners quenched their thirst with snow, and huddled together at night to prevent being frozen ; their breath, condensing on the ...”
Also on Our DartmoorSimon Tozer — Devon novelist and non-fiction author whose fiction and Swim, Walk & History guides are inspired by Dartmoor's legends and rivers.
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