South Brent
South Brent (population 2,822) is a huge village on the southerly edge of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon. The parish includes the little communities of Aish, Harbourneford, Lutton, Brent Mill, and several scattered farmhouses. It is five miles (8 km) north-east of Ivybridge as well as 14 miles (22 kilometres) east-northeast of Plymouth. On the high moorlands are many hut circles, units, and barrows, all dating from the Bronze Age. The estate 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 originally a woollen and also market centre with two annual fairs. Brent Hill is the high hill simply outside the town where it takes its name (Old English brant-- high). On it are the ruins of an ancient building, expected to have actually been a church, as well as of a windmill developed concerning 1790.
