X - EXmoor House
I hope you will agree that this is one way to deal with the troublesome letter 'X'.
I hope you will agree that this is one way to deal with the troublesome letter 'X'.
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| Exmoor House, Dulverton, Somerset (20 July 2010, by Nilfanion - CC BY-SA 3.0) |
Exmoor House was built as the Dulverton Workhouse. The golden lettering above the door declares that date to have been -
The west half of the 'T' shaped layout was the men's and boys' accommodation with the women and girls in the east.
After 1930 only vagrants' casual wards remained; later it was used as the Exmoor training centre for girls.
It then became the Rural District Offices. Today it is the Headquarters of the Exmoor National Park Authority.
Dulverton lies in the valley of the River Barle; river and valley are a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest.
The river passes under a pre-historic clapper bridge. The name clapper derives from the medieval Latin "claperius" - a pile of stones. The bridge appeared in a commemorative series of Great Britain's postage stamps in 2015.
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| Tarr Steps |
It's now a scheduled ancient monument and dates from c1000BC.
The stone slabs making up the bridge weigh up to 5 tons each and according to local legend were placed there by the devil to win a bet.
Now doesn't 'X' have associations with the devil??
