South Brent
South Brent (population 2,822) is a big 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, and many scattered farmhouses. It is five miles (8 kilometres) north-east of Ivybridge and also 14 miles (22 km) east-northeast of Plymouth. On the high moorlands are lots of hut circles, enclosures, as well as barrows, all dating from the Bronze Age. The manor of Brent came from Buckfast Abbey from the moment of the structure of the abbey in the very early 11th century. It was bought at the Dissolution by Sir William Petre, a big receiver of monastic spoils in South Devon. South Brent was initially a woollen as well as market centre with 2 annual fairs. Brent Hill is the high hill just outside the village where it takes its name (Old English brant-- steep). On it are the ruins of an old building, intended to have been a chapel, as well as of a windmill constructed concerning 1790.