Any of y'all seen the movie Straw Dogs? It's a Sam Peckinpah movie starring a very young Dustin Hoffman. It takes place in Cornwall, which is just SW of Dartmoor and has very similar landscape. It's about a couple of newlyweds that buy an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere in hopes of fixing it up. The wife ends up getting raped by their contractors and Dustin has his bloody, very violent revenge at the end....but that's beside the point. ;) Great visual references for The Winterling throughout the whole movie of the landscape and old farmhouses inside and out.
This is just a link to the trailer and then to a clip that shows a lot of the landscape.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPS-YFhhgx8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dq7SbButas
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