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Partly in Devon and partly in Somerset, at 693km� (267 sq. miles), Exmoor, created in 1954, is one of the country's smallest National Parks. It s named after its principal river, the Exe.

The varied countryside which lies within the boundaries of the park is also home to about 10,500 people. It was created a National Park because, for its size, it is one of the least spoilt areas of England and Wales, with many distinctive features. These include wildlife such as wild red deer and ponies as well as local breeds of demosticated farm animals, a variety of landscape including open moors and heaths, rolling hills high, wild and remote coastline, ancient oak woodland and beech hedgebanks and rare species. There is also a long continuity of human settlement with distinctive buildings and archaeological features.

The moorland in the north of the park is bounded by the towering cliffs and headlands, punctuated by the steep wooded ravines of many rivers and streams, which meet the Bristol Channel (Ilfracombe, Lynton, Porlock and Minehead) and have been designated a Heritage Coast.

The grass moorland inland is surrounded by undulating heather-clad hills. The moor rises to the 519 m (1704 ft) height of Dunkery Beacon and the high rainfall gives rise to a large number of streams flowing rapidly to the north and more gently to the south and cutting the moorland with "combes", steep wooded valleys.

The high land of the park catches the clouds from the Atlantic fronts which dominate Britain's weather causing them to shed rain of up to 2,000mm (80 inches) a year.

In the east of the park lie the Brendon Hills, heavily wooded in the north but covered in a patchwork of fields bounded by banks and beech hedges - a landscape which extends to the lower southern and western slopes of the high moor. Although some dairying is practised, most of the farming within the confines of the park consists of raising beef cattle and sheep.

The nature of the park has been created by thausands of years of farming and the grazing of sheep (which outnumber the human population by 50:1) in particualr as, by consuming heather, the tough moorland grasses and tree seedlings, the animals keep the moorland and grassland, which would naturally revert to climax woodland, open.

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Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks, Maps and Gazetteer

The Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks: Changes in Farming Structure, 1952-1972

Dartmoor and Exmoor
The "Great Walks" series
by John Weir, et. al.

40 Years On: Exmoor National Park

The Flora and Fauna of Exmoor National Park

Exmoor

A study of Exmoor : Report
by Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert Porchester

Devon and Exmoor
The "Insight Guides" series
by Andrew Eames, 1998

Uplands Habitats
by Alan Fielding and Paul F Haworth, 1999

National Parks West
The "Insight Guides" series
by Jeffery Pike, et. al.

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
The "Oxford World s Classics" series
by RD Blackmore, Sally Shuttleworth, 1999

Rural Politics: Policies for Agriculture, Forestry and the Environment
by Michael Winter, 1996

Exmoor Moods
by Peter Hendrie, 2002

Exmoor
The "Pathfinder Guides" series
by Brian Conduit, publisher Jarrold Publishing, 1993

Exmoor Walks
by Rodney Legg

Exmoor
by Brian Pearce

Exmoor Geology
by Edwards

North Devon, Exmoor and the Quantocks
by Peter Titchmarsh

Portrait of Exmoor
by JHB Peel

Enjoying Exmoor
by Hilary Binding

Exmoor and North Devon
by Richard Sale

Living on Exmoor

Yesterday s Exmoor
by Hazel Eardley-Wilmot

A Century of Coaching in Exmoor: Horner Woods for Tea
by Michael Hawkins and Roger Grimley, 1998

Exmoor Walks from Minehead
by Brian Atkin, 1998

Exmoor s Maritime Heritage
by John Gilman

Legends of Exmoor

Lorna Doone s Exmoor: A Romantic Picture Guide
by Barry Gardner, 1990

Murder and Mystery on Exmoor
by Jack Hurley , 1982

Great Cycle Routes: Dartmoor and Exmoor
by Jeremy Evans, 1996

Snow, Storm and Flood on Exmoor
by Martin Hesp

Donald Ayre s Exmoor
by Donald Ayres, 2001

An Autobiography of an Exmoor Poacher
The "Halsgrove Country Classics" series
by Lordy Holcombe, ed. Caractacus, 2002

A Book of Exmoor
The "Halsgrove Country Classics" series
by FJ Snell, 2002

Exmoor and the Quantocks
by John Earle, 1991

Dartmoor and Exmoor (Weekend Walks)
by Anthony Burton, Mike Williams, 2002

Exmoor
by Dennis Needham

Images of Exmoor
by Tim Shipsey

Churches and chapels of Exmoor
by NV Allen

Ancient Exmoor: A Study of the Archaeology and Prehistory of Exmoor (Microstudies)
by Hazel Eardley-Wilmot

Exmoor in Wartime

Exmoor Villages

Devon and Exmoor (Serial)
by Penny Hicks, Paul Murphy

Exmoor and Dartmoor
The "Classic Country Companion" series
by Simon McBride and Lydia McBride

Walks In Exmoor
by Green

The House by Exmoor
by Caroline Stafford

The archaeology of Exmoor: Bideford Bay to Bridgwater
by Leslie V Grinsell

In Exmoor Countrie: Pen and Ink Drawings of Exmoor National Park
by Penny Housden, et. al., 1996

Legends of Exmoor
by Jack Hurley

Exmoor/Dartmoor
by Trevor Beer

Ken Hildrew s Exmoor
by Ken Hildrew, 2002

Exmoor Food and Cookery
by Brian Pearce and Heather Burnett-Wells

Exmoor and West Somerset
by James Date, 2002

Exmoor s Greatest Walks
by Atkin

The Changing Face of Exmoor
by H Binding

Family Walks on Exmoor and the Quantocks
by John Caswell, 1991

Field Archaeology of Exmoor
, ed. Hazel Riley and Robert Wilson-North, 1994

Exploring Exmoor
by Brain Atkin

The History of the Forest of Exmoor
by Edward Terence MacDermot

Exmoor: Walks for Motorists
by David Butler, publisher Warne Gerrard Guides for Walkers

Exmoor Country
The "White Horse by Car Guides)" series
by PA Titchmarsh

Audrie Doone: A Tale of Exmoor
by BN Reckitt, 1997

Exmoor
by SH Burton

Landranger guidebook to North Devon, Exmoor, and the Quantocks

The Reclamation of Exmoor Forest
by CS Orwin

Curiosities of Exmoor
by Felicity Young

Exmoor Album
by J Astell

About Exmoor
by Polly Lloyd

Exmoor in the Old Days
by Rosemary Anne Lauder

An Endless View: Artist and Exmoor
by John Yeats

Tapedrive Exmoor
by Dennis Needham

Heritage of Exmoor
by Roger A Burton

The Flora and Fauna of Exmoor National Park

Ships and Harbours of Exmoor
by Grahame E Farr

Stag Hunting on Exmoor: With the Devon and Somerset Staghounds
The "Field Sports Library" series
by MC McGowan

The Last Word on Exmoor
by Norma Huxtable

Pub Walks on Exmoor
by Philip Pond

The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation (Amendment) Order 1995: Agriculture (Statutory Instruments: 1995: 195)

The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Exmoor) Designation (Amendment) Order 1998: Agriculture (Statutory Instruments: 1998: 1302)

Exmoor
by John Coleman-Cooke

Happy Days as an Exmoor Ranger
by Collins

The Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks : changes in farming structure, 1952-1972
by Elvet Talfryn Davies

Devon and Exmoor
by Ordnance Survey and the Automobile Association of Britain

The Beast of Exmoor and Other Mystery Predators of Britain
by Di Francis

Walks for Motorists: Exmoor
by David Beazley

Waters of Exmoor

The Hidden Places of Somerset: Including Exmoor and the Mendips
The "The Hidden Places Travel Guides" series
by Shane Scott and Sarah Bird

Francis Frith s Exmoor
The "Francis Frith s Photographic Memories" series
by Dennis Needham, Francis Frith

A little history of Exmoor
by Hope L Bourne

Exmoor Wildlife
by N.V. Allen and Caroline Giddens

Secrets of the Moor: A Walker s Guide to the Exmoor Landscapes
by Chris Chapman, et. al.

Exmoor s Wild Red Deer
by NV Allen

Walk Exmoor and the Quantocks

Aerofilms Guides: Dartmoor and Exmoor
The "Aerofilms Guides" series
by Des Hannigan

An Illustrated History of Exmoor
by Martin Smith

Railways Round Exmoor
by R Madge

The Essence of Exmoor: The Story of Exmoor Since the Second World War
by Victor Bonham-Carter

Exmoor Custom and Song
by Robert W Patten

Exmoor Review 1995

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