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This walk: 2009-2-25. Sharpitor, hut circles, reeve, Leedon tor, Ingra Tor, quarry, circular crane bases, railway halt.

Walk details below - Information about the route etc.

 

Looking across a hut circle / round house back towards the car park.

 

Looking over the edge of a hut circle/ round house across the road towards Leather Tor (left, SX 562 699) and Sharpitor (right, SX 559 703).

 

Entrance to a hut circle (left, large stones).

 

Looking up at Sharpitor along a reeve that crosses the road - note the three paths to the right, from the car park up to the tor.

 

Panorama of Leedon Tor, SX 563 718. Click on the photo to see a larger version.

 

Approaching Leedon Tor. 

 

A view of Ingra Tor, SX 555 721.

 

A slightly later view of Ingra Tor.

 

Ingra Tor.

 

A large boulder on the slope of Ingra Tor - possibly to be featured in a forthcoming issue of Boulder Weekly?

 

Criptor Farm, with King's Tor on the skyline (right).

 

A view of a crane base (circular) inside Ingra Tor quarry.

 

A fissure in the quarry face .....

 

Looking at two circular crane bases in the quarry - taken from about as far right as I was prepared to lean!
 

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A closer view of the crane bases.

 

Looking into the quarry from the railway track.

 

All that remains of the railway at Ingra Tor Halt, a couple of wooden sleepers and a concrete base, probably of the only small building that was here.  Some details of the Princetown railway can be seen here.

 

A feature of the bridge at Ingra Tor Halt.

 

Walk details

MAP: The blue lines are the compass or GPS bearings of the planned route.

 


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Access to this walk was very simple with car parking at the  P  symbol and yellow cross at the car park beside the B3312 road from Yelverton to Princetown, at SX 560 708.

 

Statistics
Distance - 5.0 km / 3.6 miles.
Start 10 am, Finish 11.40 pm, Duration 1 hr 40 min.
 

 

 

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