Plain Mummeries Tor

Lustleigh, Devon

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Main image: Field above Lustleigh - 344 metres from location - image by Derek Harper (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

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Plain Mummeries Tor is a small but distinctive rock outcrop located on a gentle spur near Lustleigh. It sits within a woodland clearing and its name comes from the 19th Century Tithe Maps, which referred to the area as 'Plain Mummeries'. The term 'mummeries' is now less common, but historically referred to traditional plays performed during holidays. Access to the site is currently restricted, respecting the wishes of the landowner.

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“the inside of the prisons presents a melancholy and disagreeable aspect and one would imagine they were calculated for cattle rather then the human species,”
Anonymous American prisoner of war (copied into the journal of Joseph Valpey Jr.), Journal of Joseph Valpey, jr., of Salem, November, 1813-April, 1815, with other papers relating to his experience in Dartmoor prison, 1922

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