An amber warning of Snow and ice across the West Country was issued by the Met Office. Across the lowlands of Sedgemoor, the snow was more a niggling nuisance than a serious obstacle, on the uplands of Exmoor and Dartmoor, roads became impassable. On such days as this, Dartmoor is a place apart.
Suffering asthma severe enough to be dispatched to the pure air of the three hundred and sixty-five square miles of Devon’s National Park upland, there were days on the moor when the outside world could have ceased …