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“Nor can imagination body forth a place more congenial to the sights and sounds of dark and blood-stained rites, than this dreary, narrow, rock-strewn glen of the Dart.”

Which book is this from?

Walreddon Manor
Historic Buildings

Walreddon Manor

A Grade I listed manor house on the edge of Dartmoor, likely medieval in origin with later additions.

Frozen WallabrookFrozen Wallabrook. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“When the zun in the East wuz beginning to rise, Jan Pook, half awake, Valled to rubbing his eyes. " Who be I ? Where be I ? " Zed Jan in a maze : " Here's a drunken old zun- Of-a-gun on a shays. If I be Jan Pook, I may zay to my cost A pair of post osses I've sartinly lost. If I baint Jan Pook 'Tez ...”

Also on Our DartmoorA Complete History of all the Religious Houses in the Counties of Devon and Cornwall — The Rev. William Jones's 1779 history of the abbeys and priories of Devon and Cornwall before the Dissolution, including Tavistock, Torre and Ford.