Crossword-Solution: BADGWORTHY 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 23

Why, 'twas but a few days agone that my Bucky saith to me--I don't rightly remember how many days agone, but I mind 'twas the very day when the old Greyhen up to Badgworthy came to ask me if I had seen her poult--for she's lost a poult, my lady, hath the poor soul, as your ladyship knoweth.

The eastern fork of the little river, known on the moor as the Badgworthy (Badgery) water, soon reached from Brendon, is more immediately concerned with this, leading immediately up as it does to the famous Doone valley.

But of literary or historical associations no valley in Devonshire could have been more absolutely bereft than that of the Badgworthy water.

Caution is therefore evidently to be exercised before accepting anything in the way of these folk-tales, which tell of a fierce and utterly lawless band of Doones who dwelt up the Badgworthy Valley, from about the time of the Commonwealth, in a collection of some eleven rude stone-built huts, and lived by raiding the houses and stockyards of the neighbouring farmers.

This scattering discharge appears to have severely wounded one, or several, of the raiders, for blood-tracks were traced in the snow, leading in the direction of Badgworthy.