article_snippet: It is an English landscape of quintessential beauty, whose many shades of green contrast sharply with the red, loamy soil: a place of steep, broad hills and ancient stone churches, where magnificent open vistas stretch from the crags of Dartmoor to the sea at Dawlish.
article_snippet: But today, one of today jewels, Haldon Ridge, in the heart of an officially designated Area of Great Landscape Value close to the Dartmoor National Park, is being desecrated.
article_snippet: Where the Dartmoor range lies gloomy and still, .
article_snippet: Bright visions will haunt you of Haldon Hill.
article_snippet: it is a scar on the landscape.