Above: Sister Francesca poses in the wooden village of Maurzysce, Poland, during World Catholic Youth Week. Francesca was one of the youngest nuns inside the community. In 2017, she abandoned the community to return to a secular life. Below: Nuns in Łowicz play basketball with a group of young Catholics. Sometimes they practise sports together or with other people related to the church The building is said to have been used by the Royal Navy as a training base in around the 1960s and 70s. Nun’s Cross Farm is shrouded in stories of intrigue and mystery, as is much of the land surrounding it. It puzzled our journalists then as equally as it does now, the only on the record explanation having been of Paul Rendell, editor of "The Dartmoor Newsletter" who apparently rang with advice for the reader.

After speaking with a number of Navy officials, the use of the building does not appear to have been documented.Why did the nun become a butcher? She wanted to get in touch with her inner meat. Funny Catholic Nun Jokes

In the South West of England, there are lots of places rich with spooky stories and mystical history, but how many of them can you actually stay in? What is the meaning of innocence? A nun working in a condom factory believing she’s producing sleeping bags for mice. The open moorland results from a long history of human management and its diversity is maintained by cattle, pony and sheep grazing. On clear days in the distance you can see Plymouth Sound. Whether heading east or west, a major danger to any traveller in this vicinity, would have been ending up in Fox Tor Mire, the most notorious of Dartmoor’s valley bogs. This is definitely a place which is preferable to go around, rather than through, so saturated and blancmange-like is the terrain. Every foot forward is one that needs to be tested against the threat of sinking. It is within this context that we might judge Goldsmith’s Cross. Whilst all crosses that serve routes are markers, the placing of Goldsmith’s Cross seems particularly judicious in guiding wayfarers on a safe path.

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This simple description is super informative. It confirm the name of the O Brook is derived from Oak Brook, and so we can assume that sometime in the past, this tributary of the Dart was wooded with Oak trees. Not so now. The oaks have gone, although there is a sprinkle of other shrubs and small trees, including willow, edging the valley bottom. It also tells us that this area was being used for tin extraction before the date of 1240 AD, and that these tin works were ‘Dryworkes’; a dry work being tin working of surficial deposits, found at the base of slopes and dry valley bottoms , as opposed to streamworks, where the tin is found in stream or river channels and floodplains. 7. Horse Ford In 1870 labourer John Hooper built the walls of Nun's Cross Farmhouse with stones collected by his wife. What’s the contrast between a nun and a woman taking a bath? One has hope in her heart, while the other has soap in her private parts. What would a nun major in if she went to college? Religious Studies would be her preferred course of study. SX 61 71 NE, 33°, 1.737 km Strane Tor Ford NE, 31°, 1.758 km B.M. 1458.3, facing W (450 m) NW, 311°, 1.760 km 440 m Contour Ring, Cramber Hill NW, 323°, 1.765 km Cramber Hill Trig Point, No.3440 (439 m) NW, 312°, 1.780 km No. 0303,