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Phillpotts in his own voice: verse and prose wandering the byways, moors and coasts of Devon and Cornwall.
Daniel Brendon, devout and hard-working, comes to Ruddyford Farm in the wild Tavy country and marries Sarah Jane Friend, daughter of a peat-works man, setting up a bitter rivalry with the calculating Jarratt Weekes.
Set around the famous fair at Widecombe-in-the-Moor, a broad, comic picture of a moor community.
English author of the Dartmoor Cycle, eighteen novels of the moor (1862-1960).
Teigngrace
Ted Hughes Poetry Trail is a short walking route of about 3.1 km on and around Dartmoor.
A distinctive group of granite rocks near Widecombe, linked to the poet Beatrice Chase's 'Dream Tor' legend.
Top Tor, also known as Dream Tor, has three prominent granite outcrops with a ruined summit pile visible from the north-west.
A winding gorge with the River Tavy running through it, featuring waterfalls and rocky paths.
Holne, Newton Abbot
The parish council for Holne, a small village on the southeastern edge of Dartmoor.
