Exmoor itself was a relatively recent discovery, opened up by the railway in much the same way as the Rocky Mountains or the Sierra Nevada. People had not realized it was there - except of course those who had been living and working in those parts for centuries. but from the moment Isambard Kingdom Brunel's line snaked west towards the toe of the country and in due course threw out tentacles to net the whole of the peninsula, nothing would ever be the same again.
P. Lively, A House unlocked (2001), 9
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