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Set in the church-town of Bridestowe, beneath the moor's northern wing near Okehampton: the story of Orlando Wolferstan and his neighbours through the turning year.
Harvey Porter, a boy runaway from a reformatory, talks his way into the Brunel's Tower pottery and into the trust of its widowed master, George Easterbrook.
After twenty years of marriage, farmer Anthony Redvers takes up with another woman; his wife Ann and their grown sons Jesse and Michael are caught in the reckoning.
In the ancient oak woods of Yarner on the moor's eastern edge above Bovey Tracey: Timothy Snow, Drusilla, and Audrey Redstone, a story of the woodland and the people who work it.
On the southern moor about Holne, the story of Alison and the farming folk around her.
At Hartland Farm above Postbridge on the East Dart, Philip Ouldsbroom, a farmer of forty just come into his land, weds the young moor-woman Unity Crymes.
The three ageing Baskerville brothers, cheerful farmer Vivian, austere and religious Humphrey, and the popular publican Nathan, and the younger generation rising around them.
David Bowden's devoted sister Rhoda cannot abide his wife Margaret; her jealousy slowly poisons the household, with the easygoing Bartley Crocker drawn in.
On the moor around Vixen Tor and the Walkham, a mother is brought to give evidence against her own son, a poacher, and to see him sent to prison.
