Dartmeet Bridge spanning the East Dart River in Dartmoor (United Kingdom)

Dartmoor has a few bogs and mires, which walkers should give due care and attention to. There is a local tale of a young man walking past a mire and seeing a hat on the ground. Picking up the hat he was surprised to find a man’s head underneath it. He readily offered to assist the gentleman out of his difficulties, only to hear the reply that the gentleman also needed the horse that he was sitting on rescued as well.

Legend of Dartmoor

Clapper Bridge over the East Dart River in Postbridge, Dartmoor (United Kingdom)

Too long have I dwelt

In the valley beneath ;

Too long have I felt

The soft summer wind's breath ;

Too long have I lingered

In evergreen bowers,

And drank the air laden

With fragrance of flowers.

They felt the gale smiting

Their brows in its motion ;

They heard the stream fighting

Its way to the ocean.

They saw the rough granite

By thunderbolts riven,

And deemed that the mountains

Were nearest to heaven.

Dartmoor

Alexander Henry Abercromby Hamilton