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The Legendary Dartmoor Fox (1208 words) |
 | It was always said that the moorland foxes tended to be distinguishable from their lowland relatives by the fact that they were larger, longer legged and had darker fur but this does not apply on Dartmoor. |
| It was thought that the French foxes bred with the local ones and eventually the foxes of the southern moor became smaller and redder than those of the northern moor, the southern moor foxes were often known as 'French Foxes'. |
| The foxes tend to live out in the open on the high moor and will often be found in the dense rock fields and clitters where they make their homes. |
| Fox Tor mire (559 words) |
| Fox Tor Mire is famous for being the atmospheric place that probably inspired Conan Doyle to write about the Hound of the Baskervilles. |
| This cross was vandalised by the original builder (Thomas Windeatt of Totnes) of Fox Tor Farm in 1812, but largely repaired by 1885. |
| On the horizon appears the scarred trench of Fox Tor Gert which was dug out by tinners a long ago. |
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