Dartmoor landscape near Moretonhampstead
Dartmoor in west Devon is basically a 240 square mile granite dome that dates from the Carboniferous Period of geological history. Around the fringes of the bleak high moorland the countryside gives way to heavily wooded river valleys and rich grassland. This was photographed on the north-east side of the Dartmoor National Park, near Chagford (which nestles behind the hill) and Moretonhampstead. It is where the farmland ends and the high moor, where sheep and cattle roam freely, begins.
Dartmoor landscape near Moretonhampstead
Dartmoor in west Devon is basically a 240 square mile granite dome that dates from the Carboniferous Period of geological history. Around the fringes of the bleak high moorland the countryside gives way to heavily wooded river valleys and rich grassland. This was photographed on the north-east side of the Dartmoor National Park, near Chagford (which nestles behind the hill) and Moretonhampstead. It is where the farmland ends and the high moor, where sheep and cattle roam freely, begins.