Country diary: a waterlogged world reverting to the wild

St Dominic, Tamar Valley: A fresh approach to this water-prone area has brought plant and animal life flooding back to the landOn the parish’s edge, adjoining Viverdon Down and overlooked by Kit Hill, a 10-acre enclosure of wet ground is reverting to a wilder state, steered by new owners. The 1840 tithe map shows six small plots here, all called “moor”, although two of the three tiny fields then used for crops were named as “Brick Moor” perhaps a reference to the ri