Myth and magic
THE early spring campaign in the West Country kicks off in style next week, with the launch onto the market of one of Dartmoor’s most historic and picturesque demesnes, the 783-acre Leighon estate at Manaton, on the eastern edge of the Dartmoor National Park, which comes with a guide price of £4.5 million through the Exeter office of Knight Frank (01362 423111). The estate stands in a magical wooded valley traversed by the Becka Brook, in the lee of one of Dartmoor’s most striking landmarks, the great granite mass of Hound Tor.
People have lived and worked in this part of Devon since at least the 1st century bc, when the Romans founded tin
