South Brent
South Brent (population 2,822) is a huge town on the southern edge of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon. The parish consists of the tiny districts of Aish, Harbourneford, Lutton, Brent Mill, as well as many scattered farmhouses. It is five miles (8 kilometres) north-east of Ivybridge as well as 14 miles (22 km) east-northeast of Plymouth. On the high moorlands are several hut circles, rooms, and barrows, all dating from the Bronze Age. The estate 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 initially a woollen and also market centre with two annual fairs. Brent Hill is the steep hillside simply outside the town where it takes its name (Old English brant-- steep). On it are the damages of an old building, expected to have actually been a chapel, and of a windmill built about 1790.