Exmoor National Park

national park, England, United Kingdom

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Exmoor is a national park located in northwestern Somerset and northern Devon, England, United Kingdom. It covers 268 square miles (693 square km) and borders the Bristol Channel. The park features a rugged coastline with headlands and wooded valleys, while inland lies a misty plateau of heather moors rising over 1,000 feet (300 m) above sea level. Dunkery Beacon is its highest point at 1,703 feet (519 m). Exmoor is known for its grazing grounds for Exmoor ponies and Exmoor horned sheep, and it is a habitat for wild red deer. The River Exe originates in Exmoor and flows south to the English Channel. Tourism is a significant part of the local economy, with Lynton, Lynmouth, and Porlock being the primary tourist centers.1

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Devon
…in the north, part of Exmoor National Park. Dartmoor, with shallow marshy valleys, thin infertile soils, and a vegetation of coarse grasses, heather, and bracken, is a granite plateau rising to above 2,000 feet (600 metres), the crests capped by granite tors (isolated weathered rocks); the moor is used for…
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…in the north, part of Exmoor National Park. Dartmoor, with shallow marshy valleys, thin infertile soils, and a vegetation of coarse grasses, heather, and bracken, is a granite plateau rising to above 2,000 feet (600 metres), the crests capped by granite tors (isolated weathered rocks); the moor is used for…
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Exmoor
…Devon, England, that forms a national park 268 square miles (693 square km) in extent. It borders the Bristol Channel on the north and has a beautiful coastline of rugged headlands interspersed with narrow, wooded valleys, or coombs. Inland, beyond the fringe of farms, lies a misty plateau of heather…
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…Devon, England, that forms a national park 268 square miles (693 square km) in extent. It borders the Bristol Channel on the north and has a beautiful coastline of rugged headlands interspersed with narrow, wooded valleys, or coombs. Inland, beyond the fringe of farms, lies a misty plateau of heather…
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West Somerset
…Hills and Exmoor, lies within Exmoor National Park, which was described in Richard Doddridge Blackmore’s 19th-century novel Lorna Doone. The park encompasses moorland covered with coarse grass, gorse, and heather—which affords sustenance for the red deer and native Exmoor ponies—as well as pastoral upland farms, narrow wooded river valleys, and,…
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…Hills and Exmoor, lies within Exmoor National Park, which was described in Richard Doddridge Blackmore’s 19th-century novel Lorna Doone. The park encompasses moorland covered with coarse grass, gorse, and heather—which affords sustenance for the red deer and native Exmoor ponies—as well as pastoral upland farms, narrow wooded river valleys, and,…
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