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Great Bidlake is a substantial listed building standing in the moorland landscape of central Dartmoor. The name suggests a significant farmstead of some age, and the building's Grade II* listing indicates it retains considerable historic interest and architectural character. Like many moorland farms, it reflects centuries of settlement and land use on Dartmoor's high ground.
Today the building remains a private residence within its moorland setting. Visitors to this part of Dartmoor will encounter it as part of the fabric of the working landscape, where farms and their structures form a human layer within the wider moorland geography of stone, grass and sky.
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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 194, 1900“Pisgies, indeed," she would say, "I can't believe what they say about mun; I never zeed wan, an' what's more, if I ded I should'n be afeared.”
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