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Four years later, a major exercise was held by the First and Second Divisions, involving over 12,000 men and 2,100 horses, in the Ringmoor, Roborough and Yennadon Downs area. Rainstorms caused the training to be cut short. [3]: 2 During this time, the nation's main artillery training area was at Shoeburyness, where the guns fired out to sea. As ...
Dartmoor includes the largest area of granite in Britain, with about 625 km 2 (241 sq mi) at the surface, though most of it is under superficial peat deposits. The granite (or more specifically adamellite) was intruded at depth as a pluton into the surrounding sedimentary rocks during the Carboniferous period, probably about 309 million years ago. [2]
The Dartmoor Tin Industry: A Field Guide. Newton Abbot, Devon, 1968. ISBN 0953270807. Somers Cocks, John. "Exploitation". In Dartmoor: A New Study. Editor Crispin Gill. David & Charles, Newton Abbot Devon, 1970. ISBN 0715350412. Somers Cocks, J. "A Dartmoor Century 1883-1983: One hundred years of the Dartmoor Preservation Association".
This is a list of Dartmoor tors and hills. Dartmoor is a National Park in South West England that contains many granite outcrops of many different sizes. The main authority (other than the OS map) is "Dartmoor Tors and Rocks" by Ken Ringwood. Birch Tor, with the Warren House Inn in the distance Vixen Tor, with Great Mis Tor beyond
A military training area, training area (Australia, Ireland, and the United Kingdom) or training centre (Canada) is land set aside specifically to enable military forces to train and exercise for combat. Training areas are usually out of bounds to the general public, but some have limited access when not in use.
The Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA) is a national park authority in England, legally responsible for Dartmoor in Devon. It came into existence in its present form in 1997, being preceded by a committee of Devon County Council (from 1951 to March 1974) and the Dartmoor National Park Committee from 1 April 1974.
The Haytor Tramway was constructed to carry the granite the 10 miles (16 km) to the canal, which involved a falling vertical interval of 1,300 feet (400 m) to the basin of the Stover Canal. Its form was a close relative of a plateway, where longitudinal L-shaped metal plates were used to support and guide the wheels of wagons. In the Haytor ...
Articles relating to Dartmoor, an upland area in southern Devon, England. The moorland and surrounding land has been protected by National Park status since 1951. Dartmoor National Park covers 954 km 2 (368 sq mi).