Qualla: Exmoor https://qualla.com/exmoor en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/6/exmoor-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Exmoor https://qualla.com/exmoor Exmoor: Introduction https://qualla.com/exmoor/ Photo credit michael clarke stuff, CC BY-SA 2.0. Look up over Exmoor on a clear night and the stars feel close enough to disturb. In 2011 the International Dark-Sky Association declared this 692-square-kilometre stretch of West Somerset and North Devon Europe's first International Dark Sky Reserve. The accolade was deserved. Outside the small villages clustered along the valleys, there is essentially no light here. The Milky Way reads as a riverbed across the sky. Below, the moor itself runs to the edge of the Bristol Channel, where Britain's highest mainland sea cliff drops 318 metres to the water at Great Hangman.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/6/exmoor-wp/gcj6-exmoor-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Exmoor: A landscape named for its rocks https://qualla.com/exmoor/ Photo credit Grant Sherman, CC BY-SA 2.0. Geologists have a period called Devonian, the era between 419 and 359 million years ago when fish first developed proper jaws and forests began to fill the planet. The period was named for these hills. The rocks here were the first of that age to be properly studied and described...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/6/exmoor-wp/gcj6-exmoor-a-landscape-named-for-its-rocks.mp3 0:06 2 full Exmoor: The royal forest https://qualla.com/exmoor/ Photo credit Leebrady99, CC BY-SA 3.0. Exmoor was officially a royal forest from at least the Domesday Book of 1086, when foresters named Dodo, Almer, and Godric were recorded at Withypool, then the forest's capital. The status meant the king reserved hunting rights and appointed wardens to manage the land. William of...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/6/exmoor-wp/gcj6-exmoor-the-royal-forest.mp3 0:06 3 full Exmoor: Ponies that may be older than England https://qualla.com/exmoor/ Photo credit Marilyn Peddle, CC BY 2.0. Wild horses still graze the moor. Exmoor ponies are a landrace, not a breed, which means they evolved through environmental pressure rather than selective breeding. They may be the closest surviving relatives of Europe's truly wild horses, and they are among the oldest pony types...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/6/exmoor-wp/gcj6-exmoor-ponies-that-may-be-older-than-england.mp3 0:06 4 full Exmoor: The Emperor and the Beast https://qualla.com/exmoor/ Photo credit User:ianmacm, CC BY-SA 3.0. Exmoor has its monsters, real and rumored. The real one was the Emperor of Exmoor, a red stag who roamed the moor until October 2010 when he was shot. He was reportedly Britain's largest known wild land animal at the time. The rumored one is the Beast of Exmoor, a large cat repor...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/6/exmoor-wp/gcj6-exmoor-the-emperor-and-the-beast.mp3 0:06 5 full Exmoor: Walks, coast, and silence https://qualla.com/exmoor/ Photo credit Stefan Kühn, CC BY-SA 3.0. The South West Coast Path, at 1,014 kilometres the longest National Trail in England and Wales, begins at Minehead and runs along all 55 kilometres of Exmoor's coast. Inland, the Two Moors Way crosses both Dartmoor and Exmoor between Ivybridge in South Devon and Lynmouth on the N...

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