Mid Devon: Blackdown Hills National Landscape
The Blackdown Hills have served as a farming landscape on the Devon–Somerset border since prehistoric times. This National Landscape is shaped by greensand ridges, deep combes and small fields, where hedgerows and woodland are as characteristic as pasture. The River Culm rises in these hills, while the River Otter also begins here, connecting the upland with two Devon river valleys. Settlement remains dispersed, with narrow lanes, hamlets and traditional orchards reflecting long-established rural land use. Castle Neroche, an Iron Age hillfort later occupied by a Norman castle, recalls the area’s older strategic importance.
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