dartmoor

There is a bloody great pluton underneath Dartmoor in Devon and Bodmin in Cornwall and so on.

Communities that live in Dartmoor may want to upgrade to more comfortable houses and experience less poverty.

Luckily Dartmoor is pretty stable but really big dams could be severely tested in the coming decades.

I went to Dartmoor and the difference is quite noticeable.

It is mostly run off from Dartmoor and hits the sea at Plymouth (which is named after the river Plym).

Places like Dartmoor are effectively so barren that the only thing that grows there is a type of grass that even sheep don't like.

In fact the Dartmoor line, which skirts the national park, reopened in 2021, took less than a year to finish, and came in £10m under budget.

This makes navigating over Dartmoor interesting.

Land owners are hostile to the idea of ramblers rights and in the UK they are trying to dismantle them - look at the back and forth over the right to wild camp on Dartmoor in the UK.

Apart from a few specific areas like Dartmoor where wild camping is specifically legal it amounts to, you can camp where you like but you can’t damage anything doing so and if you get asked to leave you have to.

On moorland, dry stone walling is the usual delimiter, see Bodmin (Cornwall), Dartmoor Exmoor, and heading up north - The Peaks in Derbyshire(ish), the Yorkshire Moors, etc and most of Cumbria and Northumberland.

John Watson investigating a supernatural curse and a demonic hound that is terrorizing the Baskerville family on their estate in Dartmoor.

I live in a village on Dartmoor, UK, complete with a pub dating back to the 12th century.

One example: mountain rescue involved in recovery of horses neck-deep in bog/marsh on Dartmoor.