The Doones of Exmoor

Reproduced courtesy of Francis Frith.


'Of the Doone houses, or hovels, little remains but a few rude square foundations, and a piece of stonework resembling an oven.  At no time can they have been anything other but the smallest and roughest of residences. The Doones themselves where a family of reckless outlaws, who infested Exmoor at the begining of the last century, and where not got rid of until, by a particularly barbarous murder at Exford, they drove the neighbourhood to exasperation.  For the facts and fictions of these people, the tourist need hardly be referred to Blackmore's "Lorna Doone."'

Hope Moncrieff 1895