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A Description of the Part of Devonshire Bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy
1836
Anna Eliza Bray's first and best-known Dartmoor work: a series of letters written to the poet Robert Southey describing the natural history, manners, customs, superstitions, scenery and antiquities of the country bordering the Tamar and the Tavy. First published in 1836, it became one of the earliest substantial written records of Dartmoor folklore and was later revised and republished under other titles. Published in London by John Murray in 1836.
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Plate from The Ancient Stone Crosses of Dartmoor and its Borderland, page 122, 1902“Pixies, too, hold a high place in the imaginations of Devonians. The villagers around Haldon and Dartmoor assert that these little people have their homes among the tors, and keep their houses spotlessly clean ; that they enjoy mad gallops at night on colts, making stirrups in their manes and ...”
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