R.D. Blackmore’s Landscapes: The Real Badgworthy
In Lorna Doone, R.D. Blackmore set his isolated and lonely Doone village in a hidden valley high on the moor. Here archaeology and romantic fiction meet face to face.
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In Lorna Doone, R.D. Blackmore set his isolated and lonely Doone village in a hidden valley high on the moor. Here archaeology and romantic fiction meet face to face.
Rising some 600 feet above the Bristol Channel, the cliffs of Castle Rock and Rugged Jack in the Valley of Rocks evoke wilderness and romance.
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