South Brent
South Brent (population 2,822) is a big town on the southerly side of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon. The parish includes the little hamlets of Aish, Harbourneford, Lutton, Brent Mill, and several scattered farmhouses. It is five miles (8 kilometres) north-east of Ivybridge and also 14 miles (22 kilometres) east-northeast of Plymouth. On the high moorlands are lots of hut circles, rooms, and barrows, all dating from the Bronze Age. The estate of Brent belonged to Buckfast Abbey from the time of the structure of the abbey in the early 11th century. It was purchased the Dissolution by Sir William Petre, a large receiver of reclusive spoils in South Devon. South Brent was initially a woollen as well as market centre with two yearly fairs. Brent Hill is the steep hillside just outside the town where it takes its name (Old English brant-- steep). On it are the damages of an old building, intended to have been a chapel, as well as of a windmill constructed regarding 1790.