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The tallest menhir, which at 14 ft (4.3 m) high is the largest on Dartmoor, was re-erected by Sabine Baring-Gould, R. Hansford Worth and others in 1893. [1] [2] Drizzlecombe is located on the western side of Dartmoor, about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of the village of Yelverton, to the west of the upper reaches of the River Plym.
However, in 1830 Samuel Rowe still wrote that Cawson or Cosdon hill was the highest in Dartmoor. [4] An 1894 guide for cyclists going from Exeter to Launceston said, "So vast is the bulk of Cosdon that, were is not for the cloud mists that so often drift round his brow, one would hardly at first sight credit his height of 1799 feet."
Berra Tor (grid reference ) is a granite tor on the south western edge of Dartmoor. [1] It is only 132 metres above sea level so is one of the lowest tors on Dartmoor. It is quite isolated and hidden from everywhere else and is generally quite unknown.
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]
Atmore was first recorded as a stop called Williams Station [8] on the Mobile and Great Northern Railroad.The town was originally to be named "Carney", in honor of a citizen who owned a sawmill in the town. Mr. Carney's brother had already established a town nearby with the same name, and Mr. Carney was allowed to name the town after his close friend C.P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent of the ...
Barbour County, Alabama – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [11] Pop 2010 [12] Pop 2020 [13] % 2000 % ...
The blowing house method of smelting tin was probably introduced early in the 14th century to replace the earliest method of smelting which had to be done in two stages – a first smelting probably took place near to the tinworks and the roughly smelted metal was taken to a stannary town to be smelted again to produce the final refined product. [1]
Sharp Tor is a common name given to tors (outcrops), particularly on Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor. [1] All the "Sharp Tors" are listed below with their location and height: Sharp Tor - Dartmoor (Southern Dartmoor, on Ugborough Moor) - 414m; Sharp Tor - Dartmoor (Dartmeet, on Dartmoor) - 380m; Sharp Tor - Dartmoor (North West Dartmoor, Nr Lydford ...