South Brent
South Brent (population 2,822) is a huge village on the southerly side of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon. The parish consists of the small hamlets of Aish, Harbourneford, Lutton, Brent Mill, and many scattered farmhouses. It is 5 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, and 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 bought at the Dissolution by Sir William Petre, a large receiver of monastic spoils in South Devon. South Brent was originally a woollen and market centre with two yearly fairs. Brent Hill is the steep hillside simply outside the town where it takes its name (Old English brant-- high). On it are the damages of an ancient structure, meant to have been a chapel, as well as of a windmill built regarding 1790.