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Sunset at Bowerman's Nose by Rich Walker75

Bowerman's Nose on Dartmoor is a stack of weathered granite on the northern slopes of Hayne Down, about a mile away from Hound Tor. It's 21.5 feet high and is the core of a former tor. Not only is Bowerman's Nose a spectacular rock formation, which appears on many local postcards and calendars, but it is also the subject of Dartmoor folklore. One version of the local legend relates that a huntsman called Bowerman lived on the moor about a thousand years ago. When chasing a hare he and his pack of dogs unwittingly ran into a coven of witches, overturned their cauldron and disrupted their ceremony. They decided to punish him, and the next time he was hunting, one of the witches turned herself into a hare, and led both Bowerman and his hounds into a mire. As a final punishment, she turned them to stone - the dogs can be seen as a jagged chain of rocks on top of Hound Tor, while the huntsman himself became the rock formation now known as Bowerman's Nose.
Bowerman's Nose is a tourist attraction, one of the Monuments and memorials in Manaton, United Kingdom. It is located: 376 km from Bristol, 740 km from Birmingham, 830 km from London. Read further
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