stone circles on Exmoor (Somerset and Devon) England
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stone circles on Exmoor (Somerset and Devon) England
Does anyone have any experience of stone circles or other menhirs or stone monuments on Exmoor? I will be there at the end of June and would like to hear about anyone's experiences in this area.
Many thanks,
sj
Many thanks,
sj
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Thanks so much. I am really looking forward to our trip to Exmoor. Does anyone else have any other information about Exmoor they would like to share. Special places to visit? Eat? etc?
sj
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Hi, sj, If you have time, visit Exmoor's website/s. I'm working from memory w/o notes or pictures, but I remember being impressed by Cleeve Abbey, and Dunster, and Watchet. But there were two more villages we liked -- one in the park with thatched roofs (name began w/ an S' maybe). I'm not being much help, but we did enjoy Exmoor very much as a long daytrip from Monkton Farleigh (village near Bradford-on-Avon), where we stayed a full week w/o ever running out of daytrip possibilities. J.
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The "S" town is Selworthy, a disappointment to me (it's a restoration). Also, Exmoor comes in second to Dartmoor and, of course, the Yorkshire Moors. I'm not aware of any prehistoric monuments in Exmoor...
Dunster, with both town and castle, is a favorite. Other favorites, though not in Exmoor per se, would be the village of Clovelly (a must-see IMO) and the beautiful cliff-top hikes at Baggy Point and between Woody Bay and Hunters Inn.
Dunster, with both town and castle, is a favorite. Other favorites, though not in Exmoor per se, would be the village of Clovelly (a must-see IMO) and the beautiful cliff-top hikes at Baggy Point and between Woody Bay and Hunters Inn.
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SJ- do you mean has anyone had any supernatural or otherwise spine-chilling experiences in the national park of Exmoor? Many, many stories abound about apparitions and other strange phenomena appearing in this area. I actually know someone who studied at Exeter Univ. who indeed claims to have had a very creepy experience there one night back in the '70's!
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Not aware of stone circles in Exmoor, but it is an attractive and moody place. The village of Porlock is dramatic. I did stone circles in the Peake District (Nine Tailors and another whose name I've forgotten) and Stanton Drew (just south of Bristol) and of course the fenced-off over-commercialised Stonehenge, but the one that really absorbed me for a long time was Avebury, just east of Bath. It was amazing.