South Brent
South Brent (population 2,822) is a huge village on the southern edge of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon. The parish consists of the tiny hamlets of Aish, Harbourneford, Lutton, Brent Mill, as well as numerous scattered farmhouses. It is 5 miles (8 km) north-east of Ivybridge and 14 miles (22 kilometres) east-northeast of Plymouth. On the high moorlands are many hut circles, enclosures, as well as barrows, all dating from the Bronze Age. The estate of Brent belonged to Buckfast Abbey from the time of the foundation of the abbey in the very early 11th century. It was purchased the Dissolution by Sir William Petre, a big receiver of reclusive spoils in South Devon. South Brent was initially a woollen as well as market centre with two annual fairs. Brent Hill is the high hillside simply outside the town where it takes its name (Old English brant-- high). On it are the damages of an old structure, intended to have been a church, as well as of a windmill developed concerning 1790.
