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Enclosure

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On walking routes: Two Moors Way

Main image: Two Moors Way to Ivybridge - 36 metres from location - image by Graham Horn (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

  • Period: Bronze Age
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A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“The rain stopped suddenly, and the wind was hushed, except in the tops of invisible trees; and a streak of black boggy fog settled heavily.”

Also on Our DartmoorThe Tolmen Stone — A mysterious stone with a natural hole, believed to hold ancient spiritual significance on the open Dartmoor plateau.

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Which Dartmoor place has also been known as "the Plymouth Leat"?

Drake's Leat. Drake's Leat, also called the Plymouth Leat, is a watercourse about 17.5 miles (28.2 km) long that carried water from the River Meavy on Dartmoor to Plymouth .

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