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“It is only when the thick white fog comes down upon the moor that these poor creatures ever dream of freedom.”

Who wrote this?

Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan. From 'A Sunday in Dartmoor', a priest's visit to Princetown prison (1890).

Worth a visit
Watern Oke: sixty hut circles
Prehistoric Settlements

Watern Oke: sixty hut circles

Sixty hut circles, three cooking hearths and a stone-roofed cache at Watern Oke, one of the largest unenclosed settlements on Dartmoor, dug in 1905.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“A lonely, desolate spot, forsaken even by the cattle and wild ponies of the forest, but yet affording a far off glimpse of the cultivated world beyond those hills which form a barrier to the north.”

Also on Our DartmoorDrizzlecombe Bronze Age Complex — A scattered Bronze Age landscape of stone circles, cairns and burial mounds spread across open moorland, testament to 4,000 years of Dartmoor's deepest past.