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Exmoor

Footnote: 

Content generated during research for the paperback book 'Exmoor: The making of an English Upland' (ISBN 13 : 978-1-86077-597-0 ) for the England's Past for Everyone series

Evidence for past environments is contained within many buried archaeological deposits, but upland peat bogs and valley mires are e

Winsford village

See the Catholic church under Pixton Park on this site

Original 1837 entrance building in North Road, South Molton

The first local authority houses were built in the late 1920s.

The hill today is a large stretch of open heather moorland between the rivers Barle and Exe.

Although sources for Exmoor's medieval history are scarce compared with neighbouring areas there is some interesting material.

Sketch map of Lyshwell, a shrunken settlement in Molland parish, Devon as it was in 1880s.

Lorna Doone

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