Dartmoor

At Haytor in Dartmoor National Park

[ Aug.2019 ] On the second day in Dartmoor National Park in Devon in south west England, our group headed for Haytor by cars, one right behind another. Haytor is one of the ‘tors’ which…

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Bridge Made of a Monolith

The next place we went to in Dartmoor, in the southwest of England, was Postbridge. This place is too small to be called a village. There is a tourist information centre for the National Park,…

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Widecombe Village

[ May, 2015 ] The village of Widecombe, in Dartmoor, England, is a very pretty place, where the simple stone houses surround the village green. The St. Pancras Church in the village, which has a…

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Rocks

[ May, 2015 ] There are big rocks scattered around in Dartmoor National Park in Devon, in the south west of England. The view is very wild. Those rocks are apparently granite. We saw some…

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Wild Ponies

[ May 2015 ] There are unique wild ponies in Dartmoor in Devon, in the south west of England. When we went out into nature, away from the towns, we soon came across those ponies…

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Morris Dance

[ May, 2015 ] We happened to be able to see the Morris dance in a town in Bovey Tracey in Devon, southwest England. This is a traditional English folk dance, usually danced in May…

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Craftsmen’s Guild

[ May 2015 ] On the weekend, when we visited Dartmoor in the south west England, our friend took us to a larger town called Bovey Tracey, which has a population of over 4,700. The…

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Walk in the Rain

[ May, 2015 ] During the bank holiday weekend in early May, we visited our friends’ second house in Dartmoor in Devon in the southwest of England. I have not been to the countryside in…