Crossing Fox Tor Mire - Video

The full extent of Fox Tor Mire lying in the valley to the right as seen from the Whiteworks/Princetown road with the Devonport Leat on the left - 28 Mar 2018

"Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay and a heavy miasmatic vapour onto our faces, while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'

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Conan Doyle reworked For Tor Mire into his most famous story as the great Grimpen Mire while staying at the Duchy Hotel in Princetown. I wouldn't want to pick my way through it with Dartmoor's infamous low cloud, but it wasn't too bad under the sunshine, even if I did lose my way halfway across. The great extent of the tremulous featherbeds doesn't really come across on the video.