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    The Hound of the Baskervilles (category Novels set on Dartmoor)
    The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely in Dartmoor, Devon, in England's West Country and follows Holmes and Watson investigating...
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    near Widecombe in the Moor on Dartmoor in Devon. He attended Ilsington Church of England Primary School and South Dartmoor Community College, later studying...
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    transferred to the Home Office Work Centre, Princetown, in the former Dartmoor Prison. He describes this in his book Memoirs of Other Fronts. In 1919...
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    story is thought to be much older. The earliest version takes place in Dartmoor with three pixies and a fox before its best known version appears in English...
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    Industrial Archaeology of Dartmoor. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4302-5. Newman, Phil (1998). The Dartmoor Tin Industry – A Field Guide...
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    River Erme (category Dartmoor)
    The Erme is a river in south Devon, England. From its source on Dartmoor it flows in a generally southerly direction past some of the best-preserved archaeological...
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    Frommer. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-470-74947-0. Sandles, Tim. "Dartmoor Clotted Cream". Legendary Dartmoor. Retrieved 3 December 2010.[permanent dead link] Smith...
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    Blowing house (category History of Dartmoor)
    or blowing mill was a building used for smelting tin in Cornwall and on Dartmoor in Devon, in South West England. Blowing houses contained a furnace and...
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  • phrase "humping a pack". Look up yomp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dartmoor Yomp Loaded march Ayto, John (2006). Movers And Shakers: A Chronology of...
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  • Mead General Building Ltd v Dartmoor Properties Ltd, [2009] EWHC 200, Mead were the subject of a CVA, in part because Dartmoor had not paid them some monies...
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    formed beneath the overlying rocks of Devon and Cornwall, now exposed at Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor, giving rise to mineralised deposits of copper and tin...
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    £5,828,216 in 2023). It is a column of the Corinthian order built from Dartmoor granite. The statue of Nelson was carved from Craigleith sandstone by sculptor...
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    5% Black Prince (4%) Trelawny (3.8%) HSD (Hicks Special Draught) (5.0%) Dartmoor Best Bitter (3.5%) Korev Cornish Lager (4.8%) Big Job IPA (7.2%) Mena Dhu...
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    and the North York Moors near the North Sea. Uplands in the west include Dartmoor and Exmoor in the south west and the Shropshire Hills near Wales. The approximate...
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  • jewellery robbery and is given a ten year sentence at Princetown jail, Dartmoor, where he befriends John Wood (Donald Sutherland) who has links to a gang...
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  • [citation needed] Bellamy was born in 1689 in the parish of Hittisleigh on Dartmoor in Devon, Kingdom of England, the youngest of six known children of Stephen...
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    and mountainous terrain is mostly found in the north and west, including Dartmoor, the Lake District, the Pennines, and the Shropshire Hills. The country's...
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  • playwright Eden Phillpotts, best known for a series of novels based on Dartmoor, in Devon. The Farmer's Wife is produced by British International Pictures...
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    include the Lake District, the Pennines, the Yorkshire Dales, Exmoor, and Dartmoor. The main rivers and estuaries are the Thames, Severn, and the Humber....
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    Poundsgate (category Dartmoor)
    Poundsgate is a small village in Dartmoor, Devon, England, located on the road between Ashburton and Princetown. The postal area of "Poundsgate" is a wide...
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    the Royal Marine Commando speed march, 30 miles (48 km) across Dartmoor carrying 30 pounds (14 kg) of kit. Following the allegations of child abuse, his...
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    gunner from 29 Commando Regiment, during a Commando Conditioning Course on Dartmoor, 2006. A gunner of 29 Commando Regiment in Helmand province, Afghanistan...
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    mandatory six months of solitary confinement. The pair were transferred to Dartmoor Prison on 21 October 1851, but shortly afterwards Johns was transferred...
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    Detective Jack Donaldson 2014 Saul: The Journey to Damascus Addai 2015 Dartmoor Killing Chris 2015 The Red Dress Rainer Television film 2016 The Charnel...
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    flocked to hear tales of King Arthur and the Holy Grail. 15 "Bridgwater to Dartmoor" 22 January 2016 (2016-01-22) In Taunton, Somerset, Portillo stands trial...
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    ligustica had survived. An isolated mating station was established on Dartmoor in June 1925, prior to this date matings were random. In 1919 a queen,...
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  • Peril Anon. (E. Sempill aka M. Storm) The Penny Popular 153 The Doors of Dartmoor Anon. (E. Sempill aka M. Storm) The Penny Popular 154 At Crossed Swords...
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  • withstand the rigours of a season in the wilds of Iraq. Used to walking over Dartmoor and having a very healthy appetite, Agatha passed the tests with flying...
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  • and antiquarian of Devon, England. He is known for his Perambulation of Dartmoor, which for many years was the standard work on the prehistoric and later...
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    became used as a prison and court to administer the laws in the Forest of Dartmoor and the Devon stannaries. The tower was rebuilt in the middle of the 13th...
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