South Brent
South Brent (population 2,822) is a big village 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, as well as many scattered farmhouses. It is 5 miles (8 kilometres) north-east of Ivybridge as well as 14 miles (22 kilometres) east-northeast of Plymouth. On the high moorlands are many hut circles, enclosures, and barrows, all dating from the Bronze Age. The manor of Brent belonged to Buckfast Abbey from the moment of the structure 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 originally a woollen as well as market centre with two yearly fairs. Brent Hill is the steep hillside simply outside the town from which it takes its name (Old English brant-- high). On it are the ruins of an ancient structure, expected to have been a chapel, as well as of a windmill constructed about 1790.
