South Brent
South Brent (population 2,822) is a huge town on the southerly side of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon. The parish includes the small communities of Aish, Harbourneford, Lutton, Brent Mill, and also 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 many hut circles, rooms, as well as barrows, all dating from the Bronze Age. The estate of Brent came from Buckfast Abbey from the time of the foundation of the abbey in the early 11th century. It was bought at the Dissolution by Sir William Petre, a large receiver of monastic spoils in South Devon. South Brent was originally a woollen and also market centre with two yearly fairs. Brent Hill is the high hill just outside the town where it takes its name (Old English brant-- high). On it are the ruins of an ancient structure, expected to have actually been a church, and of a windmill developed regarding 1790.
