South Brent
South Brent (population 2,822) is a big town on the southern edge of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon. The parish includes the little hamlets of Aish, Harbourneford, Lutton, Brent Mill, as well as numerous scattered farmhouses. It is 5 miles (8 km) north-east of Ivybridge and 14 miles (22 kilometres) east-northeast of Plymouth. On the high moorlands are numerous hut circles, units, and also 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 purchased the Dissolution by Sir William Petre, a large receiver of reclusive spoils in South Devon. South Brent was originally a woollen as well as market centre with two annual fairs. Brent Hill is the high hill just outside the village from which it takes its name (Old English brant-- high). On it are the ruins of an ancient structure, supposed to have been a church, as well as of a windmill developed regarding 1790.
