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Mine (dis)

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Main image: Wheal Exmouth, Christow - 12 metres from location - image by Chris Allen (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

Mine (dis) represents one of countless extractive ventures that transformed Dartmoor during the 19th century mining boom.

  • Period: Victorian
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“Therefore the little river divides and leaps and tumbles foaming over the mossy granite, or creeps beneath the boulders by invisible ways.”

Who wrote this?

Eden Phillpotts. From A West Country Pilgrimage (1920).

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