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The Warren House Inn is a remote and isolated public house in the heart of Dartmoor, Devon, England. It is the highest pub in southern England at 1,425 feet (434 m) above sea level . It is located on an ancient road across the moor, about 2 miles (3 km) north east of the village of Postbridge and has been a stopping point for travellers since ...
Bermingham castles are castles associated with the Bermingham family. There are numerous Bermingham monuments in Ireland, particularly in counties Kildare, Offaly, Galway, and Dublin. Most are now in a poor state but Athenry Castle in Galway has been restored, using building techniques similar to those employed when it was originally built.
Princetown is the site of Dartmoor Prison. At around 1,430 feet (435 m) above sea level, [2] it is the highest settlement on the moor, and one of the highest in the United Kingdom. It is also the largest settlement located on the high moor.
Dartmoor Preservation Association (DPA) is one of the oldest environmental or amenity bodies in the UK. It was founded in 1883. [1]: p.3 It concerns itself with Dartmoor, a National Park in Devon, south-west England.
Bovey Castle, formerly the Manor House Hotel, is a large early 20th-century mansion on the edge of Dartmoor National Park, near Moretonhampstead, Devon, England. It is a Grade II* listed building [ 1 ] and is now a hotel with 59 individually designed bedrooms in the hotel and 22 three-storey country lodges nearby.
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.
Here, Widgery depicts the Plym stream in the moor, a nearby crag in the leftmost foreground. Dewerstone Rocks in 1805. Dewerstone is the site of an Iron Age Hill fort on a rocky promontory overlooking the River Plym on the South West edge of Dartmoor to the North of Plympton in Devon. The fort consists of ramparts to the Northern side of the ...
Hexworthy / ˈ h æ k s ər i / [1] is a hamlet on Dartmoor, in Devon, England. It lies on the West Dart River a mile upstream from Dartmeet. Historically in the parish of Lydford, [2] since 1987 it has been in the civil parish of Dartmoor Forest. Hexworthy has an inn, the Forest Inn, opened in the 1850s. [3]