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Drive between Princetown and Moretonhampsteadand you will pass what is possibly the most famous Inn on Dartmoor.
The Warren House Inn stands isolated and remote high on Dartmoor.
At 1425ft (434m) above sea level, it is the highest Inn in Southern England and also said to be the loneliest.
Originally built to serve the busy local tin mining community, the Inn was always a favourite resort with miners from neighbouring Tin Mines, including Golden Dagger, Vitifer and Birch Tor Mines.
During this time it must have been a bustling place with the mining and passing travellers.
The last commercial mine (Golden Dagger) was closed in 1930 thus leaving the Warren House Inn lonely and exposed. It survives today on passing trade and tourism.
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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 200, 1900“One day two parsons started forth To walk to Cranmere Pool, The weather was not really hot, Nor was it very cool. They walked and talked for hours and hours As only parsons can, Until it seemed as though they'd trudged From Beersheba to Dan. At last they reached the pool and Lo! With ...”
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“Away to the eastward we could see the dreary brown ridges in the neighbourhood of Cranmere Pool, over which a deep stillness was brooding, and a lifeless aspect seemed to rest.”
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