Fishlake Mire

Dartmoor Forest, Devon

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Main image: Tinner's Hut, Fishlake Mire - 220 metres from location - image by Chris Andrews (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

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It is located in the Upper Plym Valley, part of the larger Dartmoor National Park in Devon.

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Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks, sites near here The Megalithic Portal, nearest recorded site

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Plate from An Exploration of Dartmoor and Its Antiquities, page 178, 1889

“He listened, and distinctly heard one, in a louder tone than the rest, exclaim, "The oven's hot!" "Bake me a cake, then," instantly cried the hungry ploughman.”
William Crossing, Tales of the Dartmoor Pixies, 1890

Also on Our DartmoorPixie Folk Tales — Henry Everett's 2025 anthology of more than 50 traditional tales of the Pixies, Piskeys, Knockers and Spriggans of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset.

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