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 tiny districts of Aish, Harbourneford, Lutton, Brent Mill, and lots of scattered farmhouses. It is 5 miles (8 kilometres) north-east of Ivybridge and also 14 miles (22 kilometres) east-northeast of Plymouth. On the high moorlands are many hut circles, units, and 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 as well as market centre with 2 annual fairs. Brent Hill is the steep hill simply outside the village where it takes its name (Old English brant-- high). On it are the damages of an old structure, supposed to have actually been a chapel, and also of a windmill developed about 1790.
