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Blue plaque commemorating John Vesey. First records of a hall on the site date back to the 15th century when it was owned by a Roger Harwell. [1]In 1527, Bishop John Vesey bought 40 acres (160,000 m 2) of land for £1500 in Sutton Coldfield called Moor Crofts and Heath Yards close to the farm in which he had been born and raised.
Postbridge is a hamlet in the heart of Dartmoor in the English county of Devon.It lies on the B3212, roughly midway between Princetown and Moretonhampstead.. Postbridge is on the East Dart river, one of two main tributaries of the River Dart, and consists of a few houses, a shop, a pub and hotel, and a national park tourist information centre.
Dartmoor, in Devon, reaches over 600 metres (2,000 feet) (High Willhays: 621 m [2,037 ft]), and was the landscape for The Hound of the Baskervilles. Bodmin Moor, further to the south-west, is smaller (Brown Willy: 420 m [1,378 ft]), and is perhaps best known for the Beast of Bodmin Moor.
Sylvia Sayer in May 1983. Sylvia Rosalind Pleadwell Sayer, Lady Sayer (6 March 1904 – 4 January 2000), was a passionate conservationist and environmental campaigner on behalf of Dartmoor, [1] an area of mostly granite moorland in Devon in the south-west of England.
Teams of six are required to visit ten specified tors; on the top of each tor is a checkpoint.Each team is required to visit all of the specified checkpoints in order. Up to two members per team may fall out during the Challenge; teams falling below this number could merge in earlier years, while later rules required a badly reduced team to forf
Shaugh Prior is a village and civil parish on the south-western side of Dartmoor in the county of Devon, England. It is situated about 8 miles north-east of the historic centre of the city of Plymouth. In 2001 its population was 751. [1] The parish stretches from the edge of Plymouth to the high moorland of Dartmoor.