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Dartmoor Forest
Foxtor Mires is a Dartmoor wetland located within the South Dartmoor Site of Special Scientific Interest, north of Cornwood. This area, part of the larger protected zone extending from Rock Tor to Fox Tor, supports unique peatland habitats.
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.
Dartmoor Forest
Rattle Brook is a brook in north Dartmoor in Devon in south-west England. It is situated East of Great Links Tor, and rises by the Rattlebrook Peatworks on remote moorland in the western section of Dartmoor National Park. It flows past
Dartmoor Forest
A deep pool on the East Dart in the remote northern moor, where the young river narrows through Sandy Hole Pass over a bed of sand and gravel, once deepened to help float cut peat downstream.
A Bronze Age cairn turned peat workers' hut, with a clear view to Plymouth Sound on a good day.
A must visit tor on Dartmoor's north-western flank, standing 582 metres high with excellent views across the moor.
A stone ruin on Dartmoor, this long abandoned house stands as a haunting reminder of industrial life on the moor.
Ruins of a Victorian peat works above the Rattlebrook, served by a railway built in 1879 that hauled peat nearly 5 miles down to Bridestowe station.
