How The Simcoes Fell In Love — And The Magical Hills Where It Happened

These are the Blackdown Hills of Devon. They’re one of England’s official “Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty,” filled with rolling green hillsides and bright fields and ancient trees that line roads so old deep grooves have been worn into the earth. It’s a land of magic and of myth: of pixies and fairies, of warrior ghosts and witchcraft, of Druids and Romans, of poachers and smugglers, of Iron…