This is a 12th Century stone keep It’s said that Lydford Law was “Hang them first and present the evidence later.” It was (of course you knew this if you checked out the date) built by the Normans.
The building you see today was built in the 13th century and was used as a prison up until the 19th century when the Dartmoor Prison was built at Princetown.
Nearby are remains of an earlier Norman earthwork fortress, and a 9th-century Saxon village.
Living and Dying on Medieval Dartmoor
Stay, Visit And Have Fun!
Imagine the perfect week away with your family; how would you be spending it? Would you be playing outdoors, discovering wildlife and reconnecting with the elements? Perhaps you’d prefer to pay a visit to exciting family attractions, jumping on thrilling rides and getting up close to exotic animals?
Dartmoor offers all that and so much more, so each day will be different from the last. You’re also spoilt for choice when it comes to places to stay, from rustic cottages on the high moorland to cosy accommodation in Dartmoor’s town with all the modern fittings and comforts of home.
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The Castle’s Resident Spook
The Castle’s spectral inhabitant is said to be Judge Jeffreys who, in the aftermath of the Monmouth rebellion of 1685, meted out savage retribution on behalf of the, soon to be exiled, King, James II at the notorious “Bloody Assizes.”
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Top 10 Recommended Things To Do in Lydford
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Attractions around Drewsteignton
There are plenty of places to see and visit around Drewsteignton. Whether you love hiking or cycling, Drewsteignton is a region where 20 hidden gems are waiting to be explored and visited. Check the top places to visit in the region and plan your next adventure today.
Lorna Doone’s Exmooor: How to explore the wilds that inspired the novel
This year marks the 150th (2019) anniversary of the publication of Lorna Doone, a novel of passion, dark deeds and high drama set in the wilds of 17th century Exmoor.
The eponymous Lorna is held by the Doones, an extended family of outlaws who, kicked out of Scotland, have relocated their thieving ways to the isolated wastes of Exmoor in south-west England. Lorna eounters a local farmer, the strapping John, or Jan, Ridd, and they fall in love – even though she is pledged, against her will, to the worst of the Doone clan, the grisly Carver Doone.
The legends & lore of Dartmoor
\”Devon, even till the present century, was a county of isolated communities,” wrote Ralph Whitlock in The Folklore of Devon in 1977. “Partly this was due to its geology and topography, partly to its history. The county, the third largest in England, has as its nucleus the huge, austere, and almost uninhabited massif of Dartmoor, around which the more fertile countryside is arranged as a frame. On the north it is fenced by another bleak plateau of almost equal altitude, although Exmoor itself is two-thirds in Somerset. Another maze of steep-sided hills serves as a barrier between Devon and south Somerset and west Dorset. Nor are the intervening vales flat plains but rather a tangle of lesser hills, many of them buried in woods. It is a secretive, half-tamed countryside. “
Lorna Doone 1951
Museum of Dartmoor Life, Okehampton
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