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Buckfastleigh, Devon

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Main image: Heading down Crest Hill - 34 metres from location - image by Fernweh (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

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This memorial stands on the exposed Dartmoor plateau where American and British forces conducted intensive amphibious assault training in the lead-up to D-Day.

  • Grid reference: SX 7354 6597 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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“The atmosphere of Dartmoor deserves particular notice ; it is at all times humid. The rain, which frequently falls, almost without intermission, for many weeks together, is generally small; and resembles more a Scotch mist than a shower.”

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Anna Eliza Bray. From A Description of the Part of Devonshire Bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy, vol. 1 (1836).

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PersonAnna Eliza BrayPublicationA Description of the Part of Devonshire Bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy

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