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Back to Exmoor, scene of prep-school rides on rough ponies

24 October 2020

9:00 AM

24 October 2020

9:00 AM

Exmoor

I am heading to Exmoor for the first time since I was last there in 1977 — and as the train pulls into Tiverton Parkway station my childhood rises back up at me like ground rush.

We head north and pass Ravenswood, the gothic building where I spent six years of my life when it was still a prep school.

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