A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
HAYTOR, or HEYTOR, a hamlet and a hill in Ilsington parish, Devon. The hamlet lies on the E border of Dartmoor forest, 4½ miles NNE of Ashburton; bears the name of Haytor-Vale or Haytor-Town; and has a small inn. The hill is about a mile W of the hamlet; soars into two acute summits; is traversed, from NW to SE, by remains of a Celtic road, or trackway; has, on its slope, a group of hut circles, or vestiges of an ancient British town; and commands an extensive and superb view. Famous granite quarries were worked, till recently, immediately below its summit; were connected by a railway, to a canal communicating with the navigable part of the Teign river; furnished the materials for several public structures, or parts of structures, in London; and are now a picturesque foreground for sketchers.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a hamlet and a hill" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Ilsington AP/CP Devon AncC |
| Place names: | HAYTOR | HAYTOR OR HEYTOR | HAYTOR TOWN | HAYTOR VALE | HEYTOR |
| Place: | Haytor |
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