South Brent (population 2,822) is a large town on the southern side of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon. The parish consists of the small hamlets of Aish, Harbourneford, Lutton, Brent Mill, as well as many scattered farmhouses. It is five miles (8 km) north-east of Ivybridge as well as 14 miles (22 kilometres) east-northeast of Plymouth. On the high moorlands are lots of hut circles, enclosures, and also barrows, all dating from the Bronze Age. The estate of Brent belonged to Buckfast Abbey from the moment of the foundation of the abbey in the early 11th century. It was purchased the Dissolution by Sir William Petre, a huge receiver of reclusive spoils in South Devon. South Brent was originally a woollen and also market centre with two annual fairs. Brent Hill is the high hillside just outside the town where it takes its name (Old English brant-- steep). On it are the damages of an old structure, meant to have been a chapel, and of a windmill constructed about 1790.