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Dartmoor National Park is a vast moorland in the county of Devon, in southwest England. Dartmoor National park is 360 square miles or 954 square kilometres. It�...
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Dartmoor National Park is a vast moorland in the county of Devon, in southwest England. Dartmoor National park is 360 square miles or 954 square kilometres. It’s about 20 miles from North to South and 20 miles from East to West. That means it’s roughly the same size as London, or about the same size as 20,000 football pitches.
Dartmoor ponies roam its craggy landscape, defined by forests, rivers, wetlands and tors (rock formations). 65% of Dartmoor is made of granite – rock which was created around 295 million years ago.
Trails wind through valleys with Neolithic tombs, Bronze Age stone circles and abandoned medieval farmhouses. There are places on Dartmoor where you can see the remains of villages where people lived and worked in the Bronze Age, 4,500 years ago.The area is dotted with villages, including Princetown, home to Dartmoor Prison used during the Napoleonic Wars
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