YOUR correspondent, Joan Calmady-Hamlyn (Letters, May 9), claims that Bearslake near Sourton was one of the original Dartmoor Tenements.
I assume she is referring to the so called Ancient Tenements of which there were 35, but these were all within the Forest of Dartmoor. Bearslake is outside the forest and was therefore not an Ancient Tenement. Brimpts was.
Ian Bowkley
Endsleigh
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Sticklepath
MRS Calmady-Hamlyn said that Lake near Sourton was one of the original Dartmoor Tenements. Lake was not an ancient tenement because these were to be found in the Forest of Dartmoor, land belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall.
These ancient tenements are to be found in the Postbridge/Two Bridges/ Dartmeet areas and date back to the 1300s. In fact, Brimpts was mentioned in 1307.
Paul Rendell
Okehampton