South Brent (population 2,822) is a big town on the southerly edge of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon. The parish consists of the little communities of Aish, Harbourneford, Lutton, Brent Mill, as well as many scattered farmhouses. It is five miles (8 km) north-east of Ivybridge and 14 miles (22 km) east-northeast of Plymouth. On the high moorlands are several hut circles, units, and also 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 early 11th century. It was bought at the Dissolution by Sir William Petre, a huge receiver of reclusive spoils in South Devon. South Brent was initially a woollen as well as market centre with 2 yearly fairs. Brent Hill is the steep hillside simply outside the town where it takes its name (Old English brant-- steep). On it are the ruins of an old structure, meant to have actually been a chapel, as well as of a windmill built concerning 1790.