Beyond the ghosts and reeking mires - Sunday Telegraph report

 
Beyond the ghosts and reeking mires - Sunday Telegraph report

Date: 25 April 2007

Sarah Shuckburgh is enchanted by the silence, the unpolluted air and the wild, open moorland of Dartmoor

Bluebells carpet the moorland hollow, a purple-blue haze shimmering in the dappled sunshine. From gnarled oaks, delicate wisps of yellow lichen dangle - a sure sign that Dartmoor air is unpolluted. Moss covers the ancient stone walls of a farm building, long abandoned. Through the trees, I glimpse a craggy skyline beneath a pale blue sky. It is utterly silent.

I had expected a bleak, forbidding place - a sinister landscape of jagged peaks, barren moorland and dangerous bogs, lashed by wind and rain...

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