For the chief boast of that ancient town (next to its woollen staple) is a worthy grammar-school, the largest in the west of England, founded and handsomely endowed in the year 1604 by Master Peter Blundell, of that same place, clothier.

My father being of good substance, at least as we reckon in Exmoor, and seized in his own right, from many generations, of one, and that the best and largest, of the three farms into which our parish is divided (or rather the cultured part thereof), he John Ridd, the elder, churchwarden, and overseer, being a great admirer of learning, and well able to write his name, sent me his only son to be schooled at Tiverton, in the county of Devon. In short, I am an ignoramus, but pretty well for a yeoman. Every woman clutched her child, and every man turned pale at the very name of. And they who light upon this book should bear in mind not only that I write for the clearing of our parish from ill fame and calumny, but also a thing which will, I trow, appear too often in it, to wit-that I am nothing more than a plain unlettered man, not read in foreign languages, as a gentleman might be, nor gifted with long words (even in mine own tongue), save what I may have won from the Bible or Master William Shakespeare, whom, in the face of common opinion, I do value highly. Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore, 1940s Vintage Book, Romance, Exmoor, Beautiful Books, Rare, Collins, Gifts, Home Library 5 out of 5 stars (675) Sale Price £16.00 £ 16. Buy a cheap copy of Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor book by R.D. Explore the Doone Valley along miles of waymarked footpaths.

Today you can enjoy extensive walks, bridleways, and a tea room, or stay longer at the Cloud Farm Campsite where you can sleep underneath the stars in a dark sky reserve. The novel is set in 17th-century Exmoor, a remote area of Devon, England, and concerns a virtuous and somewhat mysterious young woman who has been raised by bandits who abducted her when she was young. The Lorna Doone Valley was made famous by RD Blackmores novel Lorna Doone. If anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply, I, John Ridd, of the parish of Oare, in the county of Somerset, yeoman and churchwarden, have seen and had a share in some doings of this neighborhood, which I will try to set down in order, God sparing my life and memory. Lorna Doone, fictional heroine of the historical romance Lorna Doone (1869) by R.D.

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