Buckland Abbey began as a Cistercian monastery in the 13th century, its monks working the land around these sheltered valleys below Dartmoor's southern edge.
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“Upon the first heather ridges the cold breath of the Moor touched the man to patience and brought him nearer himself.”
Also on Our DartmoorKing's Tor — A tor high above the Walkham valley on Walkhampton Common, with the old Princetown railway looping round it and four quarries in view.
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