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Warrens

Buckfastleigh, Devon

Grid ref: SX 6557 6664 Find this on the Map Reference Finder

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On walking routes: Abbot's Way, Two Moors Way

Main image: River Avon below Huntingdon Warren - 58 metres from location - image by Nilfanion (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons

  • Period: Medieval
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A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“the fog-wreaths came crawling round both corners of the house and rolled slowly into one dense bank on which the upper floor and the roof floated like a strange ship upon a shadowy sea.”

Also on Our DartmoorHuts and fields NE of Rippon Tor — Scheduled Monument: Bronze Age huts and enclosed fields northeast of Rippon Tor.

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Gibbet Hill. A hill with a grim past, marked by the remains of a gibbet where highwaymen were once displayed.

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