3-053-413 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Autumn Manoeuvres on Dartmoor, 1873. 'Plymouth Sound from Hessary Tor; Belivor Tor; Sheeps Tor Church &c; Woodland Fort, Roborough, 1st Somerset Militia; Sheepstor & Leather Tor...The two camps of the First and Second Divisions are separated from each other by a deep valley, being placed on hills a mile and a half apart. The head-quarters' camp is on Roborough Down...Pen Beacon...is occupied by the military camp for the autumn manoeuvres. Our Artist's sketches present several views of the local scenery; a distant view of the Plym valley and Plymouth Sound, from Hessary Tor, near the Prince's Town convict prison [constructed in 1803, for the confinement of 10,000 French prisoners of war. It now contains 1100 convicts, under sentence of penal servitude, who are employed in the granite quarries]; one of Sheepstor village church, which is the burial-place of Rajah Sir James Brooke; the tents of the 1st Somerset Militia, who have called their encampment, on Roborough Down, by the name of "Woodland Fort;" and the hills of Beliver Tor, Sheepstor, and Leather or Lither Tor, which are not, indeed, the most remarkable, but the nearest eminences within view of the camp'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.