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Dartmoor Heritage

Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.

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“Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me thy grey mare, / All along, down along, out along, lee. / For I want for to go to Widdecombe Fair, / Wi' Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, / Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawk, / Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all.”

Who wrote this?

Sabine Baring-Gould. From A Book of Dartmoor (1907).

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Two hut circles, north of Rippon Tor
Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles, north of Rippon Tor

Two hut circles, 4 m and 4.9 m across inside, on the north slope of Rippon Tor above the Becka Brook, the northern with a south-south-east gap that may be its doorway.

Typhoon crash at St Paul's Church, Yelverton
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Typhoon crash at St Paul's Church, Yelverton

Yelverton

On Sunday 28 May 1944 a Hawker Typhoon of 263 Squadron clipped the tower of St Paul's Church, Yelverton, during a service and crashed in the fields below. The pilot was killed.