Description: Chagford District Dartmoor 1957 Vintage Colour Print A colour print from a disbound book about Devon and Cornwall from 1957, with unrelated text on the reverse. Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 9.25" x 7" or 24cm x 18cm, printed edge to edge with no border. This is a vintage print not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view the scans as they form part of the description. The date given of 1957 is the printing date, the actual date of creation can be earlier. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a board backed envelope for protection in transit. Please note: That while every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. The text below is for information only and is from the opposite separate page it cannot be supplied with the print - All spelling subject to the OCR program used The Chagford District, DartmoorAt Chagford we are on the skirts of Dartmoor, the first of the five granite outcrops of Devon and Cornwall. It is a district of superb landscapes and glowing colour, of hurrying golden-brown rivers, deep valleys, and steep, long-flanked hills, whose tops are beaconed and individualized by their towers of granite. Shadow and sunlight sweep in endless procession across these hills, as the great clouds, both snowy-white and thunder-dark, congregate overhead, to be swiftly rent again by blue depths of sky.Over the moor lie scattered the menhirs and dolniens and stone circles and stone avenues of a vanished race. Legend has been rife about these baffling stones: they are giants' tables, quoits, and "bob-stones", they are folk turned to stone for the sin of dancing or playing at hurling on a Sunday, they are—what are they?—the antiquarians can tell us no more than the makers of legend.The town of Chagford, standing high and compact under hills, is associated with the mediaeval tin trade, being appointed a Stannary Town in 1328. At the Stannary Courts in these towns the blocks of tin were weighed, and a corner cut off and the fresh surface stamped as a guarantee of purity. The Stannary Courts also protected the tinners' rights of digging for tin on any person's land without fee, and of diverting streams, provided they did not meddle with "any Pot-waters running to any man's house for dressing of meat or for the service of his family, nor divert any water from any Antient Mill."The tinners were exempted from ordinary taxation, from tolls and dues at fairs, ports and markets, and from levies. And their disputes were tried at their own Stannary Courts. They had their own parliaments, too; the Devon miners meeting on the wild summit of Crockern Tor, in the middle of Dartmoor, and the Cornish tinners at Truro. Earlier, one parliament served the two counties, both Devon and Cornish tinners flocking to meet on Kit Hill, a high, granite bluff, rising midway between Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor.
Price: 2.99 GBP
Location: Dereham
End Time: 2025-01-21T08:29:03.000Z
Shipping Cost: 20.04 GBP
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Return postage will be paid by: Buyer
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
After receiving the item, your buyer should cancel the purchase within: 60 days
Artist: G Douglas Bolton
Size: Approx 9.25" x 7"
Material: Paper
Item Length: Prints measure width and height only
Region of Origin: United Kingdom
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Subject: Landscape
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1957
Item Height: Approx 7 Inches
Style: Vintage
Theme: Topographical
Features: Bookplate
Production Technique: Lithography
Culture: n/a
Item Width: Approx 9.25 Inches
Time Period Produced: 1970-1979
Source: Disbound Book Published 1957
