Exmoor National Park

…in the north, part of Exmoor National Park. Dartmoor, with shallow marshy valleys, thin infertile soils, and a vegetation of coarse grasses, heather, and bracken, is a granite plateau rising to above 2,000 feet (600 metres), the crests capped by granite tors (isolated weathered rocks); the moor is used for…

…Devon, England, that forms a national park 268 square miles (693 square km) in extent. It borders the Bristol Channel on the north and has a beautiful coastline of rugged headlands interspersed with narrow, wooded valleys, or coombs. Inland, beyond the fringe of farms, lies a misty plateau of heather…

…Hills and Exmoor, lies within Exmoor National Park, which was described in Richard Doddridge Blackmore’s 19th-century novel Lorna Doone. The park encompasses moorland covered with coarse grass, gorse, and heather—which affords sustenance for the red deer and native Exmoor ponies—as well as pastoral upland farms, narrow wooded river valleys, and,…