Peacock Cottage

FARMING ON EXMOOR

  The Exmoor landscape that is so valued today for its beauty and apparent wildness, is in reality, largely the result of thousands of years of farming. Woodland has been cleared, heathland burned, moorland drained and the vegetation controlled by

grazing animals.

This precious management of the land

continues today in a region where farming is still

at the heart of the community.

Here a break from city life also means a chance to rediscover and appreciate a way of life that made and maintains Britain as we know and love it.