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Things New and Old Item 12: Lines on a Gravestone – a Poem
This is the twelfth item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876) LINES ON A GRAVESTONE, WITHOUT INSCRIPTION, IN THE CHAPEL YARD AT DARTMOOR PRISON. Beneath this plain and silent stone, Which hath no name engraved thereon- No words of Holy Writ, to tell To…
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Things New and Old Item 17: Jonas Coaker – Dartmoor Poet
This is the seventeenth item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876) JONAS COAKER, THE DARTMOOR POET. NO description of Dartmoor would be complete without a mention of Jonas Coaker, the Dartmoor poet, – for there is a real living Dartmoor poet ; not one…
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Things New and Old Item 14: Reminiscences of Widecombe Between Thirty and Forty Years Ago
This is the eleventh item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876) REMINISCENCES OF WIDECOMBE BETWEEN THIRTY AND FORTY YEARS AGO. “ Eheu ! fugaces Postume, Postume, Labuntur anni.” – “ The flying years ! the flying years !” ABOUT thirty-four years ago, the writer…
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Things New and Old Item 22: Dartmoor Rainfall
This is the twenty-second item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876) DARTMOOR RAINFALL. “The West wind always brings wet weather, The East wind wet and cold together, The South wind surely brings us rain, The North wind blows it back again.” THE subjoined table…
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Things New and Old Item 24: Dartmoor Ferns
This is the twenty-fourth item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876) DARTMOOR FERNS. THE many fern-hunters amongst our readers will thank us for reproducing the following from Cassell’s Magazine :—The common kinds of ferns—common only in the sense of being plentiful—are tobe found almost…
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Things New and Old Item 13: Dartmoor and the Singers of Brent
This is the thirteenth item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876). DARTMOOR, AND THE SINGERS OF BRENT. THERE is much to reward the tourist who makes his way into the wildest parts of South Devon. Some of the scenery is of great beauty, even…
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Things New and Old Item 20: Opening of the Grandfather of Devonshire Railways
This is the twentieth item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876) OPENING OF THE GRANDFATHER OF DEVONSHIRE RAILWAYS IT is a singular fact that the two railways which long preceded all those since constructed in this county should have been connected with the least…
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Things New and Old Item 23: A Few Devonian Words and Phrases
This is the twenty-third item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876) A FEW DEVONIAN WORDS AND PHRASES. ILLUSTRATIONS. “ This is a bad shilling. Is her‘? Why I vung en be now.” Why I took it just now. “’Twill come to vang for zummut…
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Things New and Old Item 4: The Dart and Webburn
This is the fourth item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876). DART AND WEBBURN DART. Wild Webburn ! wild Webburn ! why rush on so fast? Your speed is so reckless, it never can last ; Why can’t you glide gently around the rough…
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Things New and Old Item 7: The Old Clapper Bridge at Dartmeet
This is the seventh item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876). THE OLD CLAPPER BRIDGE AT DARTMEET “These Moors are changeable in their wills.”—Othello. ON the 4th of August, 1826, Widecombe was visited by a violentthunderstorm, which lasted from 3 to 7 o’clock p.m.…