Got back late yesterday after a wonderful, but tiring birthday weekend. The weather was wonderful on Friday (my birthday) and we spent all day in Dartmoor National Park. They too have ponies, but not as many as The New Forest so we were lucky to meet up with a few. Saturday we spent shopping and met up with my sister in the afternoon as we were all going to the local theatre to here my youngest niece sing. Sunday was raining but we still manage a trip to the highest waterfall in England (Canonteign). All in in a wonderful weekend. I will catch up with you all over the next few days

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As I said yesterday, although it was drizzling on Sunday morning we visited Canonteign Falls. We hadn't intended to but when we saw a signpost for the place when we had taken a wrong turning we thought "why not?". This is just the lower part of the falls. Phill and I became separated and on the way down I met two women walking with a great dane. I stopped to talk to them and asked if they were local. Turned out the lady on the right owned the land with the falls on it and very nice she was too

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This is typical of Devon. Very hilly with small fields surrounded by high hedges. For those who will never visit, I thought you might enjoy the scenery.

At the bottom of the road is the village of Widecombe in the Moor where we stopped for lunch.

English folk of a certain age will no doubt remember the song Widecombe Fair

Here is the first verse as a gentle reminder

Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me your grey mare.
All along, down along, out along lea.
For I want for to go to Widecombe Fair,
With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney,
Peter Davy, Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawke,
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all,
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all.

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There are lots of tors in Darmoor.

"Dartmoor represents one of the largest areas of exposed granite in the United Kingdom, covering an area of 368 square miles (954 square kilometres).[6] It is part of a chain of granite stretching through Cornwall, as far as the Isles of Scilly.

Some of the more durable granite survived to form the rocky crowns of Dartmoor tors. One of the best known is at Haytor, on the eastern part of the moor, whose granite is of unusually fine quality and was quarried from the hillside below the tor during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its stone was used to construct the pillars outside the British Museum in London, and to build London Bridge (now in Arizona). The last granite to be quarried there was used to build Exeter War Memorial in 1919." (Wiki)

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