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Beauty of the site -- The church -- Destruction of the cross -- Lustleigh / Cleave -- North Bovey -- Lustleigh church -- Prouze tombs -- The / sacrifice of a cat -- Bishop Stapeldon's stone -- Becka fall -- The / eastern side of the moor -- Hound Tor -- The sycamore -- Hey / Tor -- Camp or pound -- Rippon Tor -- Foale's Arrishes -- Finger-marks / on pottery -- Salubrity of Dartmoor -- Settlers -- Widdecombe / in October -- The church -- Thunderstorm -- "Lady" Darke -- Old / farmhouses -- The Song of "Widdecombe Fair."
The position of Manaton is one of remarkable beauty, between Lustleigh Cleave and the ridge on which stands Bowerman's Nose, and which swells up to Hound Tor.