Dartmoor in Devon

Dartmoor

 in Devon

Brambles Bed and Breakfast Tiverton
Whitnage, near Sampford Peverell, Tiverton, Devon
E-mail: info@bramblesbedandbreakfast.co.uk - Telephone: 01884 829211

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Dartmoor is the Jewel in the heart of the West Country and its High Moor is one of the last true wilderness to be found in England today. Dartmoor has been a National Park since 1951 and now encompasses an area of 368 square miles of Devon's most beautiful moor land, countryside and villages. Nowhere else will you find such a unique blend of features that show mans occupation spanning a period of some 5,000 years coupled with such mystical enchantment and breath taking beauty. Once you have experienced Dartmoor you to will find yourself drawn back to explore it again and again. From river gorges and wooded valleys rise the folds of green fields, hemmed with hedgerows and dry stone walls, dotted with hamlets of thatched cottages and proud church towers. Climbing above them all are the clitter-strewn slopes of the Moor, its summits crowned with fantastic wind hewn tors of granite. Dartmoor is a living, working landscape where the ghosts of the past and creatures of the imagination rise with the evening mists. Today's farmers tread in the steps of Bronze Age man, medieval monks and tinners, and Dartmoor ponies and Blackface sheep graze on heath land stalked by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Hound of the Baskervilles'. Come to Dartmoor and as you enjoy its beauty, heritage and culture you'll find yourself entranced.