South Brent
South Brent (population 2,822) is a large village on the southerly side of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon. The parish includes the small hamlets of Aish, Harbourneford, Lutton, Brent Mill, as well as numerous scattered farmhouses. It is five miles (8 km) north-east of Ivybridge as well as 14 miles (22 kilometres) east-northeast of Plymouth. On the high moorlands are several hut circles, rooms, and barrows, all dating from the Bronze Age. The manor of Brent came from Buckfast Abbey from the moment of the foundation of the abbey in the very early 11th century. It was bought at the Dissolution by Sir William Petre, a huge receiver of reclusive spoils in South Devon. South Brent was originally a woollen and also market centre with two yearly fairs. Brent Hill is the steep hillside just outside the village where it takes its name (Old English brant-- steep). On it are the ruins of an ancient building, supposed to have been a chapel, and of a windmill constructed regarding 1790.