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Devil’s Tor & Wistman’s Wood Dartmoor ENGLAND

This area abounds with tales and legends, reports brave Tim Gent

CIENTISTS will tell you that Wistman’s Wood is a fragmentary remnant of a once sizeable upland temperate rainforest. They will cite the many species of epiphytic moss, fern and liverwort that clothe the trees, or tell us that this is one of only two sites in Britain that provides a home for the horsehair lichen. They can name the resident lizards

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