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Bleak House is exactly what its name suggests - a solitary ruin.
Originally the house for the manager at Rattlebrook Peatworks.
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Plate from An Exploration of Dartmoor and Its Antiquities, page 178, 1889“Nothing stirred over the vast expanse save a pair of ravens, which croaked loudly from a tor behind us.”
Also on Our DartmoorChurch Rooms — A Grade II* listed building that served as a social and meeting space for a Dartmoor community.
“All around the hills were silent; and the long pale shadows lay, like flaws of calm on tidal waters; while the "holy circles," where unholy deeds had stained the moor, stood up, like ghosts that have no churchyard.”
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