Badgworthy Water
The well know 'Doone village' is strangely beautiful, set in a valley scattered with patches of scree. There are traces of stone walls (thought to be from the twelfth century) which were once home to a remote farming community living on the edge of Exmoor. Today these medieval houses and field terraces are one of the best preserved of this type in South West England.
RD Blackmore used this location as the home of the Doones who in the novel are a band of outlaws robbing and pilaging locals. He describes in the book;
