This walk: 2010-6-19. A wet, misty day: cockchafer (May bug), oak, bluebells, Yeo Farm, 1610 lintel, Burrator Wood, step stile, string-of-sausages lichen, Sheeptor church, Sheeps Tor, walling, gorse, Cuckoo Flower aka Lady's Smock, ponies.
Walk details below - Information about the route etc.
Seen outside the backdoor on the way to the walk - a cockchafer beetle, May bug, Melolontha melolontha.
Fresh, young oak leaves (English or Common oak, Quercus robur aka Q. pedunculata) - the leaves are lobed at the base where they join the petiole (leaf stalk) - see top left area of the photo.
A view along the path near the car park.
Bluebells, Hyacinthoides non-scripta, seen on a hedge.
Bluebells - close-up.
Yeo Farm.
An old lintel - 1610 AD, with IW and T below.
A sunken lane near Yeo Farm.
Bluebells in Burrator Wood.
Bluebells in Burrator Wood.
Bluebells in Burrator Wood.
Bluebells in Burrator Wood.
Bluebells in Burrator Wood.
A rare white variant of the bluebells in Burrator Wood.
Bluebells in Burrator Wood.
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A well-made step stile over a hedge.
String-of-sausages-lichen, Usnea articulata, a fruticose lichen (branched shrub-like thallus, attached by a holdfast).
As previous.
Looking back to the step-stile, in the corner of the field.
Sheepstor Church in the mist, with Sheeps Tor behind.
Another view of the church at Sheepstor.
An example of walling.
Gorse - with raindrop on the camera lens! This is probably Western gorse, Ulex galli, judging from the low, branching nature.
Gorse flowers in the mist .....
Gorse flowers.
As previous photo.
A recent piece of wall repair.
Cuckoo Flower (Lady's Smock), Cardamine pratensis.
As previous photo.
A hazard of parking on Dartmoor - ponies!
As previous photo.
MAP: Red = GPS satellite track of the walk.
Ordnance Survey © Crown copyright 2005. All rights reserved. Licence number
100047373.
Also, Copyright © 2005, Memory-Map Europe, with permission.
The walk was accessed via Yelverton > Dousland > near Meavy or Plympton > Cadover Bridge direction. Car parking was at the small disused quarry indicated by the yellow cross on the map known as Ringmoor Cott.
Statistics
Distance - 3.4 km / 2.13 miles
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