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| | Etched on Devon's Memory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | They were formerly far more numerous, especially on Chagford Common, but with the improvement of surfaces on the moorland roads the roadmenders have taken the stones from the hut-circles to metal the highway. |
| | The stannary brought a fluctuating prosperity to Chagford until the end of the 16th century, for the moorland tinners bought their household provisions here, and then the spinning of wool for the East Devon weaving towns took the place of the dwindling tin-works. |
| | The Park, at the entrance to the gorge of the Teign, is romantically beautiful, a place of rocks, ravens, and wild deer; the house is substantially Elizabethan in date, altered in the 17th and 19th centuries, and attractive. |
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