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The Beacon

byEden Phillpotts

On the northern moor below Cosdon Beacon, a novel of the Trevail family and their neighbours, Lizzie Dunning and the Mortimores among them, and the quarrels and loyalties that bind a moor community.

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Sources: Internet Archive (free scan). First-published year from the Devon & Exeter Institution bibliography; characters verified against the text.

Number 11 in Eden Phillpotts’s Dartmoor writing. See the Eden Phillpotts author page for the full list.

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Vixen tor in the backgroundVixen tor in the background. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“A gloom, too, spread itself with great rapidity over the face of nature, the clouds rolling up and speedily obscuring the sun.”

Also on Our DartmoorAish Tor — Aish Tor is a small, flat tor near Brake Corner with a cairn on its summit and views down the River Dart valley.

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