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Portrayers of the moorland wildness

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From: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
Date: 20080318
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In recent weeks both Exmoor and Dartmoor have been well represented by your newspaper. Intrepid explorer-reporter Martin Hesp has taken us on many a trek into these dramatic highland fastnesses, and his Meldon Reservoir-West Okement River ramble (February 22) was of particular interest. This issue also showed an evocative painting of Fernworthy Forest after snow by Lucy Evans.

But these Westcountry highlands have not always been perceived as places of wild beauty and solitude. In the 17th century Daniel Defoe saw Exmoor as a "filthy barren ground". The Rev J Swete, who made watercolour ...

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