Dartmoor prison

Dartmoor prison

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  • Dartmoor Discovery — The Dartmoor Discovery is an ultramarathon run around Dartmoor in early June (recently the first Saturday in June). The race is entirely on roads. It starts and finishes in Princetown, famous as the home of Dartmoor Prison. The current distance… …   Wikipedia

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  • DARTMOOR —    moor in Devonshire, a tableland of an average height of 1200 ft. above the sea level, and of upwards of 120,000 acres in extent, incapable of cultivation, but affording pasturage for sheep, of which it breeds a small hardy race; it has rich… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Dartmoor — /ˈdatmɔ/ (say dahtmaw) noun 1. a rocky moorland plateau in south western England, in Devon; national park. Highest point, High Willhays, 621 m. 2. a prison on this moor …  

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