On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 5:21:05 PM UTC, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
On Monday, 25 January 2016 17:12:18 UTC, Richard Dixon wrote:
On Monday, 25 January 2016 13:33:18 UTC, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:

Oh how I long for those winters of yore, but I can never find Yore on Google maps so where the hell is it.

Ore. East Sussex.

Richard


Oare what ?


Lorna Doone, Oare Farm, Oare, Devon.

Now 1683 the Great Winter was one to remember so maybe its 'days of Oare'.

Going back even further, Viking Oares? http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/sc...plica_ship.jpg

Graham
Penzance

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Lawrence Jenkins writes
On Monday, 25 January 2016 17:12:18 UTC, Richard Dixon wrote:
On Monday, 25 January 2016 13:33:18 UTC, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:

Oh how I long for those winters of yore, but I can never find Yore
Google maps so where the hell is it.

Ore. East Sussex.

Richard


Oare what ?


Lorna Doone, Oare Farm, Oare, Devon.

That was Exmoor rather than Dartmoor, though.


Now 1683 the Great Winter was one to remember so maybe its 'days of Oare'.


--
John Hall
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P Jones

On Monday, 25 January 2016 18:15:55 UTC, John Hall wrote:
In message ,
Lawrence Jenkins writes
On Monday, 25 January 2016 17:12:18 UTC, Richard Dixon wrote:
On Monday, 25 January 2016 13:33:18 UTC, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:

Oh how I long for those winters of yore, but I can never find Yore
Google maps so where the hell is it.

Ore. East Sussex.

Richard


Oare what ?


Lorna Doone, Oare Farm, Oare, Devon.

That was Exmoor rather than Dartmoor, though.


Now 1683 the Great Winter was one to remember so maybe its 'days of Oare'.


--
John Hall
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P Jones

John , Did you ever hear of Sir Atthol Oakeley. He was a royal blue blooded heavyweight wrestler who lived in Lynton the village just above Lynmouth North Devon.

Back in September 1988 I was on a late summer holiday in Appledor and of course visited Doone/Ridd country in Exmoor and there in the visitors car park was a National Trust bookstand here I purchased Sir Atthol's expose of the real Doone/ Ridd saga. He claims that Lorna and John Ridd really did exists and were not R D Blackmoor fictional characters.

Sir Athol who claimed to have Royal lineage was also a British champion wrestler in the 1920/30's Here's his Wiki entry.

Interesting character.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atholl_Oakeley

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Lawrence Jenkins writes
John , Did you ever hear of Sir Atthol Oakeley. He was a royal blue
blooded heavyweight wrestler who lived in Lynton the village just above
Lynmouth North Devon.

No. I haven't heard of him.


Back in September 1988 I was on a late summer holiday in Appledor and
of course visited Doone/Ridd country in Exmoor and there in the
visitors car park was a National Trust bookstand here I purchased Sir
Atthol's expose of the real Doone/ Ridd saga. He claims that Lorna and
John Ridd really did exists and were not R D Blackmoor fictional
characters.

Interesting. I knew that it's been suggested that the Doone clan really
existed.


Sir Athol who claimed to have Royal lineage was also a British champion
wrestler in the 1920/30's Here's his Wiki entry.

Interesting character.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atholl_Oakeley

Thanks. He seems to have been a remarkable character.
--
John Hall
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P Jones

Was he related to Annie Oakley?

On Sunday, 24 January 2016 17:08:06 UTC, wrote:
Had our fair share of this muck this first half of winter. 13 miles walk
today and about 10 of it in thick fog or mist, our leader did well
navigating. Sticky boggy ground underfoot even on the "softer" and lower
eastern moor. At least it was dry and we even had a shot of sunshine at
Dartmeet where I was tempted to get an ice cream in the 11C heat. Max. in
Haytor +12.0C which is exceptionally mild for approaching mid-winter.
Looks like more flooding misery on the way in the west and north in this
renewed vile tropical spell but then later in the week northern Britain
turns much colder with some snow which could possibly come south next
weekend in a northerly when at least the sun should come out in drier and
clearer air. No real pattern change yet though just a colder airflow off the
Atlantic with a sinking jetstream once soggy, grotty Tuesday is out of the
way.

Will
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" Some sects believe that the world was created 5000 years ago. Another sect
believes that it was created in 1910 "
http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...antage_Pro.htm
Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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