How To Use Exmoor In A Sentence
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Beautiful, green, the remoteness of Exmoor counterpointed by the glorious surf of the Atlantic beaches, coast roads with views of the craggy shoreline.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Bewildering indeed. Conspiracy theories have emerged faster than mushrooms in a damp Exmoor field. Some claim the shooting was a fiction, dreamed up to discourage trophy-hunters.
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Thatched-roof cottages characterize the medieval village of Dunster, among the largest of Exmoor's villages and hamlets and one of the park's most popular attractions.
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The landscape of parliamentary enclosure at Oare on Exmoor Somerset.
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The terrain is very varied from the great expanse of Dartmoor to the gentler stretch of Exmoor.
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Lorna Doone" is subtitled "a Romance of Exmoor".
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For certain noted fugitives from the army of King Monmouth (which he himself had deserted, in a low and currish manner), having failed to obtain free shipment from the coast near Watersmouth, had returned into the wilds of Exmoor, trusting to lurk, and be comforted among the common people.
Lorna Doone
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On the other side of the village is the Exmoor Falconry and Animal Farm, which not only keeps birds of prey and Shetland ponies but also has meerkats, a couple of kookaburras, and a llama.
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Our Exmoor club is free to residents - and you can enjoy regular entertainment, discos and live bands.
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It should be said that the carted deer run for a much shorter distance than the deer on Exmoor.
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In the 12th century King John afforested the whole of the county of Devon and such was the population's resentment that after a petition it was agreed, in return for a huge sum of money, to disafforest the county "up to the boundary of Dartmoor and Exmoor."
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Like enough, we could meet them man for man (if we chose all around the crown and the skirts of Exmoor), and show them what a cross-buttock means, because we are so stuggy; but in regard of stature, comeliness, and bearing, no woman would look twice at us.
Lorna Doone
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All the stones are local sandstone, undressed, and, in common with other circles on Exmoor, are fairly small in size, the largest only 1m long.
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It has 300 miles of exquisite coastline, the bleak beauty of Dartmoor, a chunk of unspoilt Exmoor, as well as its characteristic combes, vast hanging copses of oak and beech, and rugged, still-healthy rivers.
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This is a reward you often get, here on the edge of Exmoor, with wild skies making up for a day of wild weather.
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The village lies five miles east of Ilfracombe in a valley that runs from the north-western edge of the Exmoor upland down to the Bristol Channel.
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A coastal footpath runs through the village and Exmoor is near by, too.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like enough, we could meet them man for man (if we chose all around the crown and the skirts of Exmoor), and show them what a cross-buttock means, because we are so stuggy; but in regard of stature, comeliness, and bearing, no woman would look twice at us.
Lorna Doone
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The terrain is very varied from the great expanse of Dartmoor to the gentler stretch of Exmoor.
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Bewildering indeed. Conspiracy theories have emerged faster than mushrooms in a damp Exmoor field. Some claim the shooting was a fiction, dreamed up to discourage trophy-hunters.
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Exmoor National Park stretches over 265 square miles of moor.
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I live in Exmoor, which is designated as a national park.
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There are a number of leats existing in Somerset and a typical example can be seen at the Mill at Warren Farm, Exmoor.
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Similarly I can recall seeing blackcock, grouse, ring ousel and merlin on Exmoor until the mid sixties.
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And that is where Heather and Holly come in - Exmoor ponies are an endangered native British breed, able to thrive on unimproved grassland.
