South Brent (population 2,822) is a big village on the southern side of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon. The parish consists of the little hamlets of Aish, Harbourneford, Lutton, Brent Mill, and lots of scattered farmhouses. It is 5 miles (8 km) north-east of Ivybridge as well as 14 miles (22 km) east-northeast of Plymouth. On the high moorlands are many hut circles, enclosures, and also barrows, all dating from the Bronze Age. The manor of Brent came from Buckfast Abbey from the moment of the structure of the abbey in the early 11th century. It was purchased the Dissolution by Sir William Petre, a big receiver of monastic spoils in South Devon. South Brent was originally a woollen and also market centre with two yearly fairs. Brent Hill is the steep hill simply outside the village where it takes its name (Old English brant-- steep). On it are the ruins of an old structure, intended to have been a chapel, and of a windmill constructed about 1790.