South Brent
South Brent (population 2,822) is a huge town on the southerly edge of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon. The parish consists of the tiny communities of Aish, Harbourneford, Lutton, Brent Mill, as well as lots of scattered farmhouses. It is five miles (8 km) north-east of Ivybridge and also 14 miles (22 kilometres) east-northeast of Plymouth. On the high moorlands are numerous hut circles, enclosures, and also barrows, all dating from the Bronze Age. The manor of Brent belonged to Buckfast Abbey from the moment of the foundation of the abbey in the very early 11th century. It was bought at the Dissolution by Sir William Petre, a large 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 simply outside the town from which it takes its name (Old English brant-- high). On it are the ruins of an ancient building, supposed to have actually been a church, and of a windmill built about 1790.