Welcome to Anchor Exmoor Ponies at the Ashwick Estate. The Anchor Herd History: Francis William (Frank) Green an Eccentric Edwardian Industrialist (1861-1954) loved the south west moors and the clean air and freedom they provided. He purchased Old Ashway Farm and its moorland allotments of Ashway side and Varle Hill in the late 1920's along with half of the Exmoor ponies which grazed there.