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Widecombe Fair
Set around the famous fair at Widecombe-in-the-Moor, a broad, comic picture of a moor community. Its central thread, farmer Samuel Sweetland courting one neighbour after another while the right woman keeps his house, Phillpotts reworked into his hit play The Farmer's Wife (later filmed by Hitchcock).
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Sources: Internet Archive (free scan) · The Farmer's Wife (play), Wikipedia. First-published year from the Devon & Exeter Institution bibliography; characters verified against the text.
Number 14 in Eden Phillpotts’s Dartmoor writing. See the Eden Phillpotts author page for the full list.
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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 152, 1900“In 1772 an Act was passed for the construction of a road for wheel traffic across the moor from Moretonhampstead to Tavistock. But for this road Dartmoor Prison would never have existed.”
Also on Our DartmoorCrazy Well Farmstead near Crazy Well Pool — Scheduled Monument farmstead south of Crazy Well Pool, likely medieval or later, on the open moor.
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