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Berry Pomeroy Castle

Berry Pomeroy, Totnes

A late 15th-century castle and Tudor mansion ruin near Totnes, built by the Pomeroy family and later extended by the Seymours, now cared for by English Heritage and celebrated for its ghost legends.

Margery of Quether

by Sabine Baring-Gould

A pre-Dracula vampire story set explicitly at Brent Tor: a Devon yeoman finds a withered, centuries-old creature clinging in the bell tower of St Michael de Rupe, and takes her home.