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  2. Dartmoor Training Area - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Two Moors Way - Wikipedia

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    The route does not go over the northern part of Dartmoor as this is the Dartmoor Training Area though many walkers competent at navigating with map and compass make their own route here when there is no live firing (which is publicised 6 weeks in advance, and occurs on about 120 days a year) [3] and rejoin the Two Moors Way in mid-Devon.

  4. Old School RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.

  5. Dartmoor - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Dartmoor Preservation Association - Wikipedia

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    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".

  7. Dartmoor National Park Authority - Wikipedia

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    For the first 23 years of its existence, Dartmoor National Park was administered by a special committee of Devon County Council, [2] the "Dartmoor Sub-Committee". During this time the major proposals dealt with by the committee included extensions of china clay workings and coniferous plantations (which did not take place); the erection of a television transmitting mast at North Hessary Tor in ...

  8. Yes Tor - Wikipedia

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    Yes Tor / ˈ j ɛ s / is the second highest point on Dartmoor, Devon, South West England, at 619 metres (2,031 ft) above sea level.It is one of only two wholly English peaks south of the Peak District National Park—the other being nearby High Willhays—that are above 2,000 feet (610 m).

  9. Down Tor - Wikipedia

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