OLD STROLLS
275 walks incl. 2016-2-10
2016-2-10. 12 miles stone, Grimstone & Sortridge Leat,
Reddicliffe Farm, WB / SB parish boundary stones, waste pipe, beech trees.
2016-2-3. Two Bridges, buried tor, Littaford Tors,
Longaford Tor, Crockern Tor, Muddilake Brook, Beardown Tors, Devonport Leat,
Wistman's Wood, Crow Tor.
2016-1-27. Grenofen Bridge, River Walkham, salmon
ladder, leat headweir, buddles, Walkham United Mine ruins, Gem Bridge, gorse
blossom, moss fruiting bodies, oak tree, Dartmoor ponies, memorial bench,
bracket fungus.River Walkham, salmon ladder, leat headweir, buddles, Walkham
United Mine ruins, Gem Bridge, gorse blossom, moss fruiting bodies, oak
tree, Dartmoor ponies, memorial bench, bracket fungus
2016-1-20. Arms Tor, Brat Tor, Widgery Cross, River Lyd,
footbridge, stepping stones, Doe Tor, Brentor Church, Doetor Farm, tinners'
pits, Black Rock, Capt. Hunter's memorial plaque.
2016-1-13.
Cadover Bridge, Cadover Cross, River Plym, cairns, pool, reave, boundary stone,
Cadworthy Tor, hut circle, Dewerstone Hill, inscriptions, Plessey factory, cairn
cist, replica flint knife.
2015-10-7.
Fernworthy Forest, Sittaford Tor, Grey Wethers stone circles, Sittaford Circle. (270)
2015-9-30. Ringaston ring cairn, Sitka spruce, common
heather, deer slots, thistles, Golden Dagger Tin Mine "dry", yarrow, teasel, common
mullein, Redwater Brook, wheel pit, Dinah's House, concrete plinths, buddle,
bees, Konrad Lorenz, lynchets, fly agaric.
2015-9-16. Beatland Cross socket stone, WWII gun
emplacement, RAF Hawks Tor, GEE system, Laira Bridge, Hawks Tor, H post,
stonecrop, rockpan, wedge and groove marks, Bronze Age settlement, Shaugh
Cross.
2015-9-9.
Plaster / Plaister Down, Sampford Spiney parish boundary stones, Devil's coach
horse, Sharpitor, North Hessary Tor, Sampford Tor, Heckwood Quarry, Vixen Tor,
Saddle Rock, Cloven Saddle Rock, Windy Post, Pew Tor.
2015-9-2.
Tolchmoor Gate, holed stone, Crownhill Tor, Lee Moor China Clay Works, Ridding
Down, lowland heath, Drakelands Tungsten Mine, snake skin, Broomage Farm.
2015-8-12. Dartmoor ponies, Little Mis Tor, Forest
of Dartmoor bound stone, Great Mis Tor, rabbit bury, Over Tor Gert, Over Tor
(Church Rock), <errivale Warren, Merrivale Quarry, stone rows.
2015-7-29. Magpie Viaduct, buddleia, Cycle Route 27,
Himalayan honeysuckle, Brentor, Middle Staple Tor, Great Staple Tor, Great Mis
Tor, Pew Tor, Screw Bridge, Gem Bridge, River Walkham, Wheal Franco Mine.
KR35 - last group led by KR
2015-7-22. Hut circles, sundew, bog asphodel,
cross-leaved heath/bog heather, bell heather, common heather/ling, wedge and
groove method, feather and tare method, Castle Drogo, Shapley Tor, Hookney
Tor, mining reservoir, West Coombe Farm, haymeadows, Leapra Cross, pyramid
orchid.
2015-7-15.
Gutter Tor, Gutter Tor (or Ditsworthy) Gert, Ditsworthy Warren House, the Big
Shed, dog kennels, covered leat, cists, menhirs, stone rows, terminal cairns,
the Drizzle, Longstone Leat, Scout Hut.
2015-7-8.
Dartmoor Brewery, Meavy Head, GWR track bridges, water
drainage channels, North Hessary Tor TV mast, Dartmoor ponies, hut circles,
cotton grass, Foggintor Quarry, Eva's Farm. Hill Cottages, Manager's House, Big
Tip, Stables, Gibb's Cottage, Smithy and Princetown Smithy.
KR34
2015-7-1. Prewley Moor ice works, Sourton Tors, triangulation
pillar, thufurs (correct), pony, Meldon Reservoir, Lake Viaduct, So/B boundary
stone, long boundary ditch, dew pond, apple crusher, Greep Quarry, cotton
grass, Water Treatment Works.
KR33 (260)
2015-6-24. Heath spotted orchid, Sheepstor, Peekhill,
Sharpitor, Leather Tor, Drake's Leat. Crymes' Leat, decoy airfield, Tormentil,
Lousewort, Heath speedwell, Convolvulus, Red campion, Shaugh Prior, Sustrans
cycle track No. 27, Leighbeer Tunnel, Wheal Lopes Leat and Aqueduct, way
marker, Skylark Inn.
2015-6-17. Drakeford
Bridge, inscribed stone, River
Bovey, old oak tree stump, Oil beetle, Dor beetle, memorial
bench, Packhorse (or Hisley) Bridge, wood ants, broom seed pods and flower,
honeysuckle, ash house, Lustleigh church, The Cleave public house, Russian
comfrey,
2015-6-10.
Shaugh Bridge China Clay Drying Works, River Plym, River Meavy, river
confluence, Shaugh Bridge, Shaugh Brick Works, Dewerstone Iron Mine, tunnel
kiln, adit, Pixie Rock, Dewerstone Cottage, foxglove, railway embankments,
Appaloosa pony, inclined plane, winding house, granite quarry features.
2015-5-6.
Fernworthy Forest, hut circles, slotted gatepost, Lowton Brook West settlement,
Assycombe stone rows, cairn, cist, Assycombe Brook settlement, Asacombe Farm,
Sitka spruce cones.
KR32+LM
2015-5-20.
Fitz's or Fice's Well, Lower Halstock, East Hill, triangulation pillar, Oaklands, WW2
searchlight, Belstone Tor, Cosdon Hill, Yes Tor, East Mill Tor, bluebells,
clapper bridge, Moor Brook, Halstock Cleave, waterfall, West Cleave Rocks,
Ashbury Tor, Roman Chair, Iron Age hill fort, Shetland ponies.
TS (11,041 images)
2015-5-13. Oak
catkins, oak apples, gorse blossom, violet, Yeo Farm, ladder stile, bluebells,
step stile, Burrator House, Portland Lane, Sheepstor (St. Leonard's) Church,
village cross, churchyard cross, war memorial, Rajahs of Sarawak, bull ring,
St. Leonard's Holy Well.
KR31+LM
2015-4-29.
Sharpitor, Leather Tor, cist, stone row, Goatstone Pond, RAF Sharpitor, Peek
Hill, cairn, Burrator Reservoir, Lowery Tor, reaves, DPA boundary stones.
KR30+LM
2015-4-22.
Drilled stone, hut circle, Butter Brook, blowing house, Tor Rocks Quarry, 2nd
quarry, Puffing Billy Track, Hangershell Rock, Butterdon Rifle Range 700-yard
marker stone.
Also, Spurrell's
Cross, observation pits and rifle range butts (firing points) seen on the "recce".
KR29
(10,771 images)
2015-4-15.
Four Winds, King's Tor, Great Mis Tor, Little Mis Tor, Dartmoor Pixie's Cave,
Sugar Lump Pile.
KR28
(10,695 images)
2015-4-8.
Plaister Down, St. Mary's Church at Sampford Spiney, church cross, steps, beech
trees.
HMK2 (250)
2015-4-1. "Walk of a thousand stiles", Mary Tavy Inn, Victorian letter box,
St. Mary's Church, William Crossing's grave, step stile, miners' dry, Smeardon Down, Bennett's Reservoir, Gibbet Hill,
Jubilee Walk.
KR27
2015-3-25. Steps Bridge, River Teign, Dunsford Woods, weir, leat, riverside
paths, hazel catkins, wild daffodils, robin, blue tit, dipper, mallards,
snowdrops, iron mill. KR26
2015-3-18. Grenofen Bridge, River Walkham, blue elvan quarry,
sett makers' bankers, West Down mine chimney and ruins,
kiln, Buckator, country rock (slate), West Down.
KR25
2015-3-11.
Two Crosses Stone, Honeybag Tor, Chinkwell Tor, Haytor Rocks, Wind Tor, Rippon
Tor, Saddle Tor, mole hills, Drywells Cross, Dockwell, Hutholes medieval
village, Corndon Tor. KR24
2015-3-5.
Brat Tor, Sharp Tor, Hare Tor, Ger Tor, Wheal Jewell
Reservoir, Wheal Betsy Mine.
KR23
2015-2-25.
Burrator Upper Quarry, Sheep's Tor, Yennadon Crags / Click Tor, Burrator Halt,
Leather Tor, memorial benches, dam, waterfall, Devonport Leat, Burrator
Heritage Centre, Wembley Walk, Lowery Barn, sett makers' bankers. KR22
2015-2-18. Scuffler,
Higher Godsworthy, Black Tor, White Tor, Brent Tor & church, Great Combe Tor,
Peter Tavy Church, swimming pool, Colly Brook bridge, Little Combe Tor, ram,
Boulters Tor, Setters Tor, Great Mis Tor, Great Staple Tor, Cox Tor, Wedlake,
gorse blossom, pitted stone, P stone.
KR21
2015-2-11.
RAF Harrowbeer, Roborough Rock, Allan Williams turret, drinking fountain, Queen
Victoria Diamond Jubilee monument, Devonport Leat, Plymouth Leat, Sheepstor,
kissing gates, Elford Town Farm, Yeoland Consols Mine, Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt's
horse-drawn tramway.
KR20
2015-2-4.
"Two Bridges Tor", West Dart River, Wistman's Wood, Longaford Tor, Littaford
Tors, Crockern Farm, robin, Crow Tor, Beardown Tors, Devonport Leat.
KR19
2015-1-21.
Two Crosses Stone, Honeybag Tor, Chinkwell Tor, Haytor Rocks, Wind Tor, Rippon
Tor, Saddle Tor, mole hills, Drywells Cross, Dockwell, Hutholes medieval
village, Corndon Tor.
KR18
(240)
2015-1-21.
Dartmoor ponies, frozen cycle track, lumpy ground, Cox or, Great Staple Tor,
Great Mis Tor, benches, memorial plaques, bomb handling ramps, building bases,
signal square, compass platform.
KR17
2015-1-14. A walk from Lowery Cross car park.
(HMK1)
2015-1-7.
River Plym, Cadover Bridge, Cadover Cross, cist, Dartmoor ponies, Cadworthy Tor,
The Dewer Stone, Dewerstone Rocks, inscriptions, large hut circle, Wigford Down
longhouses (x2), summit cairns, pond, Hen Tor, Trowlesworthy Tor. Mount Batten,
Fort Stamford KR16
2014-12-10.
Long Ash car park, Middle and Great Staple Tors, Great Mis Tor, Pew Tor, bench,
hawthorn, ponies, Brent Tor church, Iron Age Castle Field, Berra Tor, Orange
Peel Fungus.
KR15
2014-12-3.
Burrator Arboretum, dead tree, Sheep's Tor, Narra Tor, PCWW pillar, Sharpitor,
Leather Tor, Middleworth Tor, Down Tor, Burrator Resrvoir, Pixies Cave, Dartmoor
ponies, rabbit bury, Sheepstor Warren House remains, Maiden Tor, corn ditch
wall.
KR14
2014-11-19.
Hound Tor, cairn and cist, dousing, Haytor Rocks, dew pond, Greator Rocks,
enclosure, horse jumps, abandoned house, Chinkwell Tor, Rippon Tor, Fox moth
caterpillar, medieval village. KR13
2014-11-12.
Leather Tor, Sharpitor, hut circles, Princetown, Hart Tor, Black Tor, Leeden
Tor, Criptor, cist, Ingra Tor, quarry, crane bases, Ingra Tor Halt, Sweltor
Quarry, King's Tor Quarry, Pew Tor, Routrundle.
KR12
2014-11-5.
Plume of Feathers, Fox Tor Cafe, drinking fountain, cattle crusher, HM Prison, Devonport Leat, Bullpark, Conchies Road, Longaford Tor, Higher White Tor,
Bellever Tor, Blakey Tor, cists, Crock of Gold, dung fungi, pineapple weed, fly
agaric, Duchy Hotel. KR11
2014-10-29.
Grenofen, River Walkham, blue elvan quarry, West Down mine chimney and ruins,
kiln, Buckator, country rock (slate), West Down.
KR10
2014-10-22.
Norsworthy car park, Bal mine whim stone, Middleworth Farm, Deancombe Farm,
Combeshead Farm, potato cave, Combeshead Tor, Hingston Hill stone circle and
cist, Down Tor cist, hut circles.
(230)
KR9
2014-10-15.
Ringmoor Cottage car park, longhouses, corn ditch wall, Legis Tor, vermin trap,
Legis Lake ford and stepping stones, cist, Ringmoor Down circle and stone row.
KR8
2014-10-1.
Burrator Upper Quarry, Drake's Plymouth Leat, cobwebs, grey squirrel, explosives
stores (x4), Burrator Dam, commemorative plaques, Burra Tor, anchorage points,
Sheepstor Dam, ducks, memorial benches, Longstone Manor,
KR7
2014-9-24.
Bedford Bridge, clay pit, brick works, Wheal Franco copper mine, common polypody
fern, Screw Bridge, Sustrans "27" cycle route, oak, bird cherry, hawthorn,
Brentor, Gem Cottage, benches, bracket fungus, sloes, oak apples, Himalayan
honeysuckle, Horrabridge poster, Magpie Viaduct, bind weed, red admiral, ponies.
KR6
2014-9-17.
Heather, Western gorse, CB stone, Ephraim's
Pinch, hemp agrimony, honey bee, scaly male fern, butterbur, Clitocyboid mushroom. Sousson's Farm, Challacombe Down, lynchets, hard fern, haircap moss, Golden
Dagger 'dry', gorse flower, bramble flowers, Red Barrows. Ringastan ring cairn
and cist.
KR5
2014-9-3.
Stanlake Plantation, Devonport Leat, Stanlake Farm, Stanlake Settlement,
doll's head, Raddick Hill, Iron bridge, Aqueduct, River Meavy, Hart Tor Brook,
Black Tor Waterfall, blowing houses, mortar stone, Black Tor, double stone
row, cornditch wall, cist.
KR4 Start of leading
regular walks temporarily
2014-7-9. Ace of Diamonds enclosure, gert, Warren House Inn, Birch Tor,
Sousson's Plantation, Chaw Gulley, bell heather, Challacombe stone rows,
Headland Warren Farm,
Grimspound, Buckland Beacon, Redwater Brook, buddle, Golden Dagger Mine, wild
strawberry, bog asphodel, Vitifer Mine, Birch Tor Mine.
2014-6-11.
Rees Jefferys car park, plaque, Little Mis Tor, crottle (lichen), frog, Middle
Staple Tor, Quarrymans' Path, Great Staple Tor, Roos Tor, logan stone, flap
pole, Fur Tor, Great Mis Tor,
Duke of
Bedford marker stones, triangulation pillar, sett makers' bankers, Merrivale
Quarry, Duke's Folly, explosives store, milestone, cotton grass, Grimstone &
Sortridge Leat.
2014-5-21. Dartmoor Inn, Merrivale
Quarry, Middle Staple Tor, Great Mis Tor, Longash Leat, double stone rows,
Roos Tor, King's Tor, Longstone, South Hessary Tor, TV transmitter,
Yellowmeade Farm, Pila Brook, cotton grass, Little Mis Tor, Vixen Tor,
bluebells, skylark, china clay sett boundary stone, cloudscape, cumulus,
cirrus, Hucken Tor, Greater Stitchwort,
Hucken Tor farm longhouse, staddle
stones, Little Wonder Bridge, gate hanger stone, TA stone.
2014-5-14.
Blackaton Cross, Emmett's Post, Trowlesworthy Tor, clay workings, large
lorries and diggers, Saddlesborough hut circles, stone row, skylark, gorse,
Eddystone Lighthouse (22 miles distant), Hawk's Tor, quartz vein, H stone,
trig. pillar, Luxton Tor.
2014-5-7.
Hound Tor, Swallerton Gate, Swallerton Gate Cross, granite trough, Dexters,
Bowerman's nose, bluebells, Dartmoor white-faced sheep, dung bonnets, Manaton
Church, pennywort, lichen, lousewort, Blissmoor longhouse, pink purslane, Jay's
Grave. (220)
2014-4-30.
Gate-holder stone, Kestor Rock, distant deer, hut circle, hawthorn tree,
Hurston Castle / Castle Rock, sedge (Carex spp), drystone wall, Canada
geese, Hurston, sundial, slotted gateposts, Lower Shapley, apple blossom, beech
leaves, Two Moors Way, Mariners' Way,
2014-4-16.
Venford Reservoir, Holne Town Gutter, bull's eye plates, Holne Moor Leat, Mine
track, dry Wheal Emma Leat, RDH stones, cairns, mine workings, Ringleshutes
Mine.
2014-3-26.
Higher Cherrybrook Bridge car park, Lych Way, "Hairy Hands" of Dartmoor legend,
Bellever Tor, Bronze Age settlement, hut circle, chainsaw art, cairn cist,
Longaford Tor, Dartmoor ponies.
2014-3-12.
Dunnabridge, Pound, Judges Chair, Postman's Road, Brimpts North Mine, Loughtor
Man, Laughter Tor, sheep measure, slotted gate posts, cow jaw, Cherrybrook Leat.
2014-3-5. Mary
Tavy/Brentor parish boundary stones, West Devon Way, Brentor, Church of St
Michael de Rupe, Brentor Station, Whittor, Great Mis Tor, Roos Tor, Great
Staple Tor , Cox Tor, Sharpitor, Peek Hill, mine shaft, trig pillar, Great
Links Tor, Widgery Cross (on Brat/Brai Tor), Lydford Station, Wastor Farm.
2014-2-26.
Meavy village, Royal Oak public house, old oak, replacement oak, war memorial,
Meavy Village Cross, St. Peter's Church, lych gate, snowdrops, Lower Meavy
Bridge, River Meavy, church path, clapper bridge, Callisham, Lovaton, Burrator
Dam, rainbow, hazel catkins, Marchant's Cross, Higher Meavy Bridge, ford.
2014-2-19. P (Peter Tavy) boundary stone, Wedlake, Roos Tor Bottom, reave, hut circles, slit
trenches, mortar pits, gun emplacement, Roos Tor, Duke of Bedford stones 1890,
1847 markers, tinners pits, Quarryman's Path.
2014-1-29.
Yellowmeade Farm leat, Hill 60 Quarry, Hollow Tor Quarry, King Tor, Dartmoor
Mission Hall, Rundlestone Tor, North Hessary Tor TV transmitter, Great Mis Tor,
rock basins, black dunghill, weather station, DCP stones, milestones, Mistor
Farm, Little Mis Tor.
2014-1-8.
Lane End, Wheal Jewell Mine Leat / Reddaford Leat, John Taylor, Nattor Farm,
Baggator, sluice, Nat Tor, footbridge, Tavy Cleave, Ger Tor, River Tavy, depth gauge,
survey station, head weir.
2013-12-11.
"The walk of a thousand stiles" - Mary Tavy Inn, William Crossing's grave, step
stiles, mowhay, Wheal Friendship miners' dry, reservoir, smallholding, hens,
Hare Tor, Ger Tor, Jubilee Walk.
(210)
2013-12-4.
Master Rock (Billy Bray). Zoar Common, cottages, The Old School House, Hill
Bridge, head weir, leat takeoff, salmon ladder, tin mine, wheelpit, C-stone,
Wheal Frederick Leat, tramway rail, linhay, old chapel, Methodist chapel.
2013-11-27.
Sherberton Farm, apiary, bees, logs, bridge, planks, sheep creep, buzzard,
stone circle, Galloway cattle, tors, Dunnabridge Pound, John Bishop's House,
TA stone, Higher Swincombe Farm, grinding stone supports stones, Swincombe
Ford Bridge, stepping stones, Gobbett Mine crazing mill, blowing house, mould
stone, mortar stones, buddles, wheel-pit, adit, Forest Inn, Queen Victoria's
Cross.
2013-11-6.
Plaque and log seats in the car park, St. Pancras Church, Widecombe-in-the-Moor
sign, Widecombe Fair characters, East Webburn River, Chinkwell Tor, Rugglestone
Inn, slotted gate post, Beatrice Chase (Olivia Katherine Parr), Venton, Higher Venton Farm, Dunstone Court, Dunstone Cross, Dun Stone, pennywort, village
green.
2013-10-30.
Houndtor, local hunt, deserted medieval village, drying barns, kilns, ovens,
longhouses, slotted gate posts, lapper bridge, Becka Brook, Ilsington/Manaton
boundary stone, Leighon, pumpkins, camping barn.
2013-10-23. River Lyd, stepping stones, footbridge, Brat Tor, Widgery Cross,
Arms Tor, Great Links Tor, Hare Tor, Doe Tor.
2013-10-16. Venford Reservoir, Holne Moor sign, 2009 spillway, Dart valley, Sharp Tor,
lichen, White Wood, bracket fungus, Bench Tor, Mel Tor, Yar Tor, Rowbrook House,
Combestone Tor, strip fields, Richard Dawson - Lord of the Manor of Holne -
boundary stone.
2013-9-18.
The Hurlers stone circles, The Pipers, incised cross, RJL 1846 boundary stone,
mine engine houses, The Cheesewring, ponies, rainbow, sheep, Sharp Tor, Stowe's
Hill, fleur de lis, Daniel Gumb's House, Rillaton Barrow, Caradon Hill,
archaeological 'dig' for a crystal pavement.
2013-9-11.
West Down, Grenofen Manor, River Walkham, disused quarry, sett makers' bankers,
fungi, West Down Mine chimney, kiln.
2013-9-4.
Gutter Tor, Sheep's Tor, cirrus clouds, Longstone Leat, Down Tor, Sharpitor,
Leather Tor, Yellowmead fourfold stone circle, Cuckoo Rock, PCWW 1919 markers,
mine shaft, beech mast,
Outholme cist, corn ditch, hillside tin working,
Jobbers' Road, Higher Hartor Tor, soft rush, clapper bridge.
2013-8-28.
EPB boundary stones, Buckland Beacon and the Ten Commandments Stones, Jubilee
Stone, Well's Tor aka Welstor Rocks. (200)
2013-8-21.
Footbridges, West Okement River, Meldon Dam, Meldon Pool, limestone quarry, lime
kilns, ragwort, Meldon Viaduct, finger dumps, wheel pit, Meldon Reservoir.
2013-8-14.
Devonport Leat, clapper bridge, spillway, Drivage leat hut, Hutchinson's or
Devonport Leat Cross, leat tunnel, dung bonnet, Old Smithy, Nun's Cross Farm,
Northmore's Cross, Headless or Whealham Bottom Cross.
2013-8-7.
Clouds, Row Tor, West Mill Tor, East Mill Tor, anti-tank weapon firing points,
command point, target butts, explosion (revisited from another walk), Okehampton Show, triangulation pillar, mating wasps, Red-a-ven Brook.
2013-7-31.
A damp, misty walk: saw mill leat, hut circle, ponies, River Erme, Downing's
House, dam, Pile's Copse.
2013-7-24.
B3212 road, permitted path, poetry plaques nos. 1 and 2, thistle flower, stone
row, RAF Sharpitor, Walkhampton Church, Peek Hill, Lowery Tor, bramble flower,
Peekhill Plantation, foxgloves, red campion, Danish Supermarine Spitfire.
2013-7-7.
Strolls in the French Alps - not included in
the total no. of walks at the top of this page.
2013-4-26. Norsworthy Bridge, C (County) stone, Norsworthy tin mill, tinners' fougou, Leathertor
Farm, potato cave, River Meavy, Leather Tor Bridge,
ancient ford, Riddipit Steps stepping stones, Riddipit Farm longhouse, Riddipit
Tin Mill, 2nd potato cave - with luminous moss, mortar stone, adit, Riddipit gert, Keaglesborough Mine, wheel pits, leat bank, Classeywell Farm,
Kingsett Farm, feathers & tare stone, Norsworthy
Farm. KR3
- LM gone to French Alps
2013-6-19.
Riverside Car Park, River Tavy, weirs, old island, Still Tower, pinnacles,
Abbey Place, Abbey Chapel, Misericord, Bedford Hotel, Betsy Grimbal's Tower,
sarcophagus, cloisters, Church of St. Eustachius (Eustace), medieval gargoyle,
Ordulph Arms, lower ground levels, milestone, stained glass windows.
2013-6-12.
Setters Tor, non-granitic rock, Stephen's Grave, Bronze Age settlement,
conrete roller, Broadmoor Brook, sheep creep, slotted gate post, Twyste Farm,
Boulters Tor.
2013-6-5.
Sourton Tors, marker stones, King Way, SWW water works, ice works, Meldon
Reservoir, boundary ditch, apple crusher, Pixies' matchsticks, Meldon dam,
Shelstone Tor, luggage "handle" on a large rock, non-logan stone, Vellake
valley, Greep Quarry.
2013-5-29.
Teign Estuary, Emsworthy, tramway, gorse blossom, Hamel Down, Chinkwell Tor,
Honeybag Tor, Hound Tor, Holwell Tor, Saddle Tor, Haytor, leat, Emsworthy Rocks,
bluebells, slotted gate posts, alpine cow bell, barn owl box,
longhouse,
Becka Brook Bog, Emsworthy Mire, hut circle, Baggator and Ilsington boundary
stones, Common cotton grass, Fitches Holt, Whortleberry Rock, North Hessary Tor,
Greator Rocks, Manaton Church, curlew, cuckoo, Templer granite tramway points,
unfinished apple crushers.
(190)
2013-5-15.
Hurston Water, River Bovey, Bushdown Mine, leat, gerts. Assycombe Hill.
Fernworthy Forest, Hurston Ridge double stone row, cairn, cist, Kes Tor, hut
circles, Hurston Castle, West Vitifer Mine, buddles, wheel-pit, waterfall,
Bennet's Cross.
2013-5-8. Whitchurch Down, Shorts Down, Plaster Down, Brentor Church, milestone,
box well, liverwort, King Alfred's Cakes fungus, ramsons, wild garlic, slotted gate post, hollow-way lane, quartz,
foal, Holland Villa, Pu Tor, Great Sortridge Mine, vista of tors, "TA" on a
stone.
2013-5-1. Reeve, Horn's Cross,
Stacombe Telling Place, PUDC Venford reservoir catchment boundary stone, RD / H,
cairn,
Ryder's
Hill, trig. pillar, Petre's Boundstone, Petre on the Mount, Redlake china clay waste heap,
Combestone Tor.
2013-4-17.
Powdermills, Lych Way, Powder Mills Leat, incorporating mills, gunpowder,
maidenhair spleenwort, tar, water wheels, wheel pit, magazine, reservoir, Cherry
Brook, chimney, flue, unidentified mosses.
2013-4-10. Two
Crosses in Turf Stone, Honeybag Tor, Chinkwell Tor, Bell Tor, D Stone, Blue
Stone, Kingshead Tor, Herring's Knock, Stoneslade Tor, cist, small cross, WW2
anti-glider poles, Hameldown Beacnn, Hamilton Beacon, Grey Wethers Stone, cairn,
Old House Stone.
2013-4-3. Drove
Lane, Grange Plantation, Brook Barn, stacked wood, fieldfares, Hall Farm,
Elizabeth Chudleigh a.k.a. Lady Kitty Crocodile, primrose, wild daffodils,
Tristis Rock, cairn circle and cist, Piles Copse, Hangershell Rock, Hall
Plantation, Burford Down, River Erme, Bronze Age enclosures, stone row (from a
distance), water treatment works.
2013-3-27.
Dousland water reservoir, Yennadon Quarry, Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt's horse-drawn
tramway, hedge construction, granite setts, sewage works, The Old Halt, Iron
Mine Lane, Meavy Iron Mine, Devonport Leat ('dry'), cattle creep, PCWW 1917
boundary stone, Burrator Halt, Burrator Dam, Devonport Leat (running), mallards,
sluice, Lowery Crossing, PCWW 1917 boundary stone.
2013-3-20.
Steps Bridge, River Teign, Dunsford Wood, mill leat, coppiced oak, wild
daffodils, leaf litter, copper beech, exposed tree roots, branched lichen,
unidentified moss, coppiced stool, Dolly's Seat, leat sluice.
2013-3-13.
Mardon Down, wild daffodils, Haytor, Giant's Grave, cairns, largest stone circle
on Dartmoor, Haldon Belvedere aka Lawrence Castle, frozen puddles, cutting, growan, Maximajor Stone
or Headless Cross, pillared circle.
2013-3-6. Shaugh Bowling Green, step stile, Shaugh Prior church, stream, milk
churn, Shaugh Prior Cross, Inspector of Ancient Monuments marker, stone row,
reave, hut circle, triangulation pillar, Luxton Tor, Hawk's Tor, tongue and
groove marks, Huxton Farm boundary marker, rock pan, quartz vein, WW2
anti-aircraft radar site, Beatland Corner cross. (180)
2013-2-20.
Burrator Dam, animal drinking troughs, commemorative plaques, Berra Tor,
explosives store, Sheepstor village cross, Sheepstor brook, Burrator House, step
stile, bracket fungi, sunken lane, Smallacombe, catkins, Yeo Farm, Marchant's
Cross, benchmark, River Meavy ford and stepping stones, Plymouth (Drake's) Leat,
Yennadon Crags, Burrator Upper Quarry car park rock exposure.
2013-2-6.
Shaugh Bridge china clay drying sheds, River Meavy, River Plym, settling tanks/resrvoirs,
West Down, pony, spruce cones, Plymouth Hoe big wheel, Princetown, North Hessary
Tor, Shaugh Beacon, Dewer's footprint, pine trees, Trowlesworthy Warren Farm,
pound, badgers' sett, bracket fungi, china clay slurry pipe.
2013-1-31. Black sheep, Arms Tor, memorial seat, step stile, Bray Tor, Widgery
Cross, River Lyd, ford, stepping stones, footbridge, boundary stone, tin
streaming site, Wheal Mary Emma leat, clapper bridge, Black Rock, memorial seat,
commemorative plaque, large riverside construction, Hare Tor.
2013-1-16. Granite/country rock exposure, Leeper/Leapra Cross, Mariners Way,
slotted gatepost, signpost, Leapra Brook, massive gateposts, West Coombe Farm,
ash house, impressive corner stones, leat, reservoir, hut circles, Shapley Tor
2013-1-11.
Lopwell Dam, apple crusher, fish pass, tidal causeway, saltwater marsh, Maristow
House, Tavy Viaduct, boathouse, belvedere, mill, oak apples.
2013-1-2. Cist, double stone row, RAF Sharpitor, Peek Hill,
cairn, hawthorn tree, Cock's Plantation,
Yellow Brain fungus, Golden
Jelly fungus,
Yellow
Trembler,
Witches'
Butter, Tremella_mesenterica,
Cross Gate Cross,
Devonport Leat, stacked timber, cairn and cist, Pixy Match and Pixy Cup
lichen fruiting bodies
2012-12-19. River Plym, Blacka Brook, rabbit bury, rabbit warren, myxamatosis,
Pests Act 1954, Trowlesworthy Warren Farm, cist, Bottle Hill Mine, clay works
leat, rabbit bridges, Little Trowlesworthy Tor, crane base, "The Drum", pink
granite, Devonport Column, longhouse, hut circle.
2012-12-12. Christmas Lunch at Burrator Inn.
2012-12-5.
Top Tor, round houses / hut circles, Rippon Tor, Saddle Tor, Haytor, Foale's
Arrishes, reeve, pixie snot, Blackslade Down longhouse, Whittaburrow cairn,
Warren House Inn, Blackslade cist, Tunhill Rocks, Pil Tor, Widecombe, St.
Pancras Church.
2012-11-28. Roborough Rock, RAF Harrowbeer aerodrome, Dartmoor ponies, Allan Williams
turret, drinking fountain, Diamond Jubilee commemorative monument, Devonport
Leat, Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt's horse-drawn tramway, Plymouth & Dartmoor railway,
Elford Town Farm, Gloucestershire Old Spot piglets, kissing gate, tunnels, oak
trees, Chub Tor, oak apple, Drake's Plymouth Leat, tramway mile post. sluice.
(170)
2012-11-14.
Brimpts Plantation car park, logs, sawing depot ruins, Bellever Forest, Soussons
Wood, Warren House Inn, Babeny, Sharp Tor, Bellever Tor, Loghtor Man, Laughter
Man, Pixie snot, Brimpts North Mine, Adit Shaft, Engine Shaft, stamping mill,
wheel pit, dressing floors, dung bonnet, dry leat, slotted gate post, Huccaby
Tor, Dartmoor pony.
2012-11-7.
Drakeford Bridge, Pullabrook Wood, Woodland Trust, River Bovey, Yellow
Stag's-horn Fungus, Trendlebeer Down, wood ants nest, Lustleigh Parish 2000
boundary stone, packsaddle bridge, Hisley Bridge, Hisley Wood, Pudding Stone,
benchmark, slotted gate post, flood plain, Rudge Wood, crustose lichen, 1684
inscribed stone, liverwort, otter sign, turkey.
2012-10-31.
West Blackdown car park, modern B/MT boundary stone, West Devon Way, National
Route 27, Shetland ponies, Was Tor, old railway line, site of Lydford station,
ivy, post box, Wastor Farm, kissing gate, walled garden, white-faced Dartmoor
sheep, Burnville Farm, Langstone, The Smithy, wheelwright's wheel, old railway
bridge notices.
2012-10-17.
Harrowbeer Aerodrome, Roborough Common, orange peel fungus, hawthorn berries,
kerb stones, hashers' sign, Clavaria fistula, Walkhampton House, Great
Staple Tor, Pew Tor, Great Mis Tor,
pony, bomb-rolling ramps, Nostoc commune.
2012-10-10.
Combestone Tor, mist! Today's walk was too misty and wet for the camera to be
taken out and used as is normally done.
2012-10-3.
Holming Beam car park. Beardown Tors, DCP stone, Cowsic River, range clearer's
lookout hut, firing range warning signs, fox moth caterpillar, flag staff, West
Dart valley, Higher White Tor, Longaford Tor, Rough Tor, Crow Tor, range
clearer's stable, Lydford Tor.
2012-9-26.
Round Pound, Watern Tor, Thirlestone, hut circles, Batworthy, Kes Tor,
Scorhill Tor, Little Kes Tor, Castle Drogo, Haytor Rocks, rock pans, Middle Tor,
The Longstone, Thornworthy Tor, rainbow, double stone rows, cists, fourfold
stone circle, fallen menhir.
2012-9-19.
Apple crusher, Middle Staple Tor, Great Staple Tor, Roos Tor, Great Mis Tor,
Little Mis Tor, Potato or Plague Market, hut circles, dwelling, Chris Swanson
memorial, Forest of Dartmoor boundary stone, River Tavy, River Tamar, Walkham
Valley, Over Tor, rabbit bury, very large plate.
2012-9-12.
Great Nodden, WD4 stone, Ger Tor, Sharp Tor, Hare Tor, WD5 stone, WD 6 stone,
WD10 and WD11 stones, Bearwalls Farm, woodpecker hole, bat boxes,
Widgery Cross, Arms Tor, farm buildings, butterwell, corn ditch, MOD lookout,
St. Petrock's Church in Lydford, Lydford Castle, rainbow.
2012-9-5.
Dr. Blackall's Drive, Bel Tor, Miltor Lane, Mel Tor, Sharp Tor, slotted
gatepost, rock basins, Venford Reservoir, hut circle, tors, Buckland Beacon,
Aish Tor, Leusdon Church, River Dart, rowan trees. (160)
2012-8-29.
Warren House Inn, heather, mine shaft, Vitifer Mine, carpenter's shop, Redwater
Brook, Birch Tor Mine, mine captain's house, privy, great mullein, Birch Tor,
Golden Dagger Mine, teasel, white heather, reindeer moss (lichen), gert,
Soussons Wood, Birch Tor and Vitifer Mine Leat, chamomile, eyebright.
2012-8-22.
Gorse, bell heather. common ling, Haytor Rocks, High Man, Low Man, Teign
estuary, Rippon Tor, Saddle Tor, Bonehill Rocks, Hound Tor, dung bonnet,
Emsworthy Rocks, Emsworthy West Quarry, Apache attack helicopter, Emsworthy East
(aka Harrowbarrow) Quarry, altocumulus, altostratus clouds, Haytor granite
tramway, switching points, St. Winifrid's Church at Manaton, Rubble Heap Quarry,
cirrus, stratocumulus clouds, boundary stone, cross-leaved heath, Blacksmith's
Shop or Old Smith's Shop B mark, chambered tomb
2012-8-15.
Walking group 5th anniversary walk.
2012-8-8. Sheep,
Willsworthy Firing Range hut, Wheal Jewell Leat, Ger Tor, Reddaford Farm, firing
range features, bog asphodel, cross-leaved heath, Yellowmead farm, WD 37
military range boundary stone, Lich Way, common polypody, Willsworthy Manor
Pound, Lower Willsworthy.
2012-7-18.
Cows, Nun's Cross / Siward's Cross, Eylesbarrow Mine.
2012-7-11.
Cross-leaved heath, sheep, Barn Hill, Staple Tors, cist, Grimstone & Sortridge
Leat, Beckamoor Cross, bullseye stone, Feather Tor, wedge and groove granite
splitting, Vixen Tor,
Vixana, fallen
WB bound stone, Prowtytown Corner, Prowtytown Rocks, Tamar bridges, reave, Cox Tor, rook.
2012-6-27. War
Horse walk, Gutter Tor, vermin trap, abandoned apple crusher, unfinished cross,
trig. point, Ditsworthy Warren House, tinners' gert,kennels, speedwell, dung
fungi.
2012-6-20.
Speedwell, Caroline Farm/Wheal Caroline Mine, Potato Garden, heifer, cows, cotton
grass, foal, Hurston Ridge, double stone row, cairn, Kes Tor, lousewort, Water
Hill cairn, Birch Tor & Vitifer mine leat.
2012-6-6. Grenofen
Bridge car park, Gem Bridge, picnic spot, time capsule, notice board, Gem
Bridge, gabion walling, River Walkham, Screw Bridge, Magpie Viaduct, mine shaft,
cow wheat, stonecrop, brick works - red soil, grey wagtail, meadow buttercup.
2012-5-30.
Great Western Reave, Walkhampton Common Reave, Stenlake Road, Plymouth &
District Railway (P&DR), granite setts, cattle creep, Routrundle, hut circle,
plate-layers' hut, poetry plaque, hawthorn hedge, Peekhill Farm, St. Mary's
Church Walkhampton, stone row, white milkwort, pony, Sharpitor, mile stone, PCWW
1917 stones. (150)
2012-5-23.
Boulters Tor, Roos Tor, Great Staple Tor, Cox Tor, Setters Tor, Great Mis
Tor, non-granitic rock forming local tors, Higher Godsworthy, sundew
plant, Colly Brook, dry stone wall, field system, White Tor, P-stone, Great
Combe Tor, St. Peter's Church in Peter Tavy, Brentor, skewbald pony, Church of
St. Mary in Mary Tavy, speedwell, bluebells, May blossom, Peter Tavy swimming pool, toads,
tadpole.
2012-5-17. Volvo articulated dump trucks, Shaugh Lake China Clay Works, hut
circle, stone row, round house, Bickleigh Barracks, milkwort, reave, Hawks Tor,
Shaugh Prior Church, "H" boundary stone (for Huxton Farm?), trig. pillar,
excavator. Not actually a Moor Stroll but additional to 2012-4-18 below, and
not included in the total at the top of this page.
2012-5-16. Mill
stone, hut circle, pound wall, Vixen Tor, Merrivale double stone rows, menhir,
King's Tor, Great Mis Tor, Great Staple Tor, logan stone, feather and tare rock
splitting, CW2 china clay sett boundary stone, Hucken Tor, pennywort, lousewort,
bluebell, lesser celandine, wood sorrel, Little Wonder Bridge, Pila Brook, gate
hanger stone, explosives store, Grey Down Quarry. TA stone.
2012-5-2.
Bronze Age roundhouse/hut circle, Hanger Down Clump, feathers and tares, Butter
Brook, plantation, reservoir, Tor Rocks, blowing house, mould stone, holey
stone, tormentil, Tor
Rocks
Quarry, St. Petroc's Church Harford, Tristis Rock, Erme Valley, Sharp Tor, Three
Barrows, Hangershell Rock, Puffing Billy track, Butterdon Hill 2 km stone row,
foal.
2012-4-25.
Meldon Reservoir, commemorative plaque, trig. points (survey stations), dam, Longstone Hill, Sourton Tors, Meldon Viaduct, Red-a-ven Brook, Black Hill,
quartz veins, lichen, aplite quarry, Red-a-Ven Copper Mine, Devon Copper Mine,
Blackdown Copper Mine, Okehampton Wheal Maria, Meldon Mine, weighbridge, finger
tip dumps, wheelpit, West Okement River,
Meldon Pool, beech trees.
2012-4-18.
Early clay sett bound stones, Blackaton or Roman's Cross, Emmet's Post, cairn,
barrow, china clay scenery, Luxton Tor, Trowlesworthy Farm and tors, Hen Tor,
Shaugh Bridge china clay drying works, River Meavy, River Plym.
2012-4-11.
Postbridge, road bridge, clapper bridge, dipper, common polypody, gorse flower,
East Dart Valley, old disc harrow, Dury Brook, Sousson's Wood, Pizwell, Runnage
Bridge, Billy from Pizwell, young rabbit, Postbridge Cemetery.
2012-4-3.
Headland Warren Farm, artefacts, plastic owl, gerts possibly from Vitifer
mine, West Webburn Valley, Grimspound, Hookney Tor, RAF Memorial, WW2 3-metre
anti-glider poles, warren boundary stone, dog kennel wall, rabbit-proof walls.
2012-3-28. Magpie or Bedford Bridge, River Walkham, Wheal Franco copper mine,
brick works, Screw Bridge, moss, unidentified beetle, daffodils, Old Station
Road, Magpie Viaduct.
2012-3-21.
Shapley Common, Round Hill, Jurston Valley, Curlicombe Brook, Chagford/North
Bovey parish bound stone, slotted gateposts, Jurston, Mariner's Way, chimney
pot, clapper bridge, stepping stones, roe deer, Lettaford hamlet, The
Landmark Trust, circular stone. (140)
2012-3-14.
RAF 1942 Stirling Bomber memorial stone, Piall Woods, seat and memorial plaque,
Delamore House, Headon Down, Cholwich Town China Clay Works, mica settling tank,
leat, kaolin, granite constituents, Broomage Wood, oak trees, common polypody,
abandoned well, Broomage farm, Crownhill Tor, smoke from swaling, Tolchmoor
Gate, Cholwich Town Farm Cross, Quick Bridge.
2012-3-7 Kit Hill (Cornwall).
Artefacts from the Bronze Age, from tin-streaming, tin-mining and from granite
quarrying.
2012-2-29.
A walk led by Simon Dell MBE (Dartmoor Guide) on the slopes of Middle Staple Tor
looking at granite working including the sett makers' bankers.
2012-2-22.
Ringmoor Down, medieval farmsteads, longhouses, Legis Tor, vermin trap, Legis
Lake, cist, stone row and circle.
2012-2-15.
Narrator Farm ruins, blocked gateway, Narra Tor, Joey's Lane, Burrator
Reservoir, hawthorn tree, Sharpitor, Leather Tor, rabbit bury (pillow mound),
St. Leonard's Church, Sheepstor, Maiden Tor, Sheepstor Warren House, Pixie's
Cave, Sheep's Tor, Plymouth Breakwater, Scout Hut, Gutter Tor, Hen Tor,
Yellowmead multiple stone circle, hut circle, PCWW 1919 water catchment
boundary stone, crows on sheep.
2012-2-8. Pew
Tor, Pu Tor, marker stone (1896), North Hessary Tor, King's Tor, Great Mis Tor,
Great Staple Tor, inner marker (1847), bullseye stone.
KR2 - Looking for a masons' boundary
marker
2012-2-1. Sourton
Tors, East Tor, Church of St. Thomas a Becket, Lake viaduct, Great Nodden,
boundary stone, triangulation pillar, Sourton ice works, Iron Gates, King Way,
icicles.
2012-1-25.
Roughtor Plantation, Leather Tor, Middleworth Farm, Snappers Tor, bearded lichen, bracket fungus,
Down Tor, Sheep's Tor, Deancombe Farm, staddle stones, Narrator brook, mortar
stones, blowing house, adit, Combeshead Tor, Cuckoo Rock, Outholme cist, mine
shaft, Rough Tor.
KR1 - First group walk led, to Rough Tor
(visit with LM later, 28th Feb. 2012)
2012-1-18. This
was a very misty day during which I didn't take very many photos: Postbridge,
road bridge, clapper bridge, tin workers mould stone, "The Barracks", Bellever
Forest, Lakehead Hill antiquities, possible "sheep creep".
2012-1-11.
Four Winds, Longash Leat, Longash Brook, explosive stores, Hill 60 Quarry,
Hollow Tor Quarry, Rundlestone, Tor, old prison boundary stone, DCP prison
boundary stone, North
Hessary Tor, TV transmitter, PCWW 1917 inscription on
North Hessary Tor, TA stones,
Tyrwhitt's horse-drawn tramway, Cake Stone, Bronze Age settlement, West Mead
Quarry, Red Cottages.
2012-1-4.
Ringaston ring cairn, cist, Soussons Plantation, South Sands, forest tracks,
orienteering, ridge and furrow ploughing, owl pellet, fallen tree, Red Barrows,
Dartmoor Exploration Committee
2011-12-28. Grimstone & Sortridge Leat, Plaster
Down, Samford Tor or Little Pew Tor, Sampford Spiney Parish boundary stone,
Heckwood Quarry,
feathers and tare, broken trough, Feather Tor, clapper bridge,
Beckamoor or Windy Post Cross, bullseye stone,
abandoned apple
crusher, millstone or feeding trough?, Pew Tow bond marks, WW2 bomb craters.
2011-12-14. Bonehill Rocks, Bel Tor, Haytor Rocks, St Pancras Church,
Cathedral of the Moor, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, rock pans, Chinkwell Tor, Honeybag
Tor, cairns, Thornhill Lane, Sharp Tor.
2011-12-7.
Drinking fountain, RH Hooker, St. Michael & All Angels Church, prisoner of war
grave markers, three soldiers' memorial plaque, Hartor Bottom rifle range, range
marker stones, hut circle, butt or target backstop, Hart Tor, Cramber Tor, South
Hessary Tor, Leeden Tor, Leather Tor, Sharpitor.
2011-11-30.
Gutter Tor, Sheep's Tor, Leather Tor, Sharpitor, Scout Hut, cists, trig. point,
Ditsworthy Warren House, rock pan, Gutter Tor Cross, unfinished apple crusher,
vermin traps,
Elbow Gutter, pillow mounds / rabbit "buries", kennel, ferret cage, honey
fungus, Disney-esque tree.
2011-11-23.
Norsworthy bridge, Bal mine, whim stone, wheel pit, Leather Tor, Sharpitor,
lichens, yellow fungi, Down Tor, Burrator Reservoir, corn ditch, Kingsett Farm,
hut circles, Peek Hill, lomghouse, Newleycombe Lake, Crazy Well (Classywell)
Farm, girt, three cists, Newleycombe Farm, Newleycombe Cross, cist, Combshead
Tor, Cuckoo Rock, Snappers Tor.
2011-11-16.
Silver birch tree, witch's broom, Sticklepath Wood, River Walkham, Roborough
Common, Screw Bridge, Sustrans National Cycle Route 27, moss, new Gem Bridge on site
of Brunel's River Walkham viaduct, bracket fungus, honey fungus.
2011-11-9. A very wet day.
Gibbet Hill, possible sunken lane, bracket fungus, Gibbet Hill, Wheal Betsy, WD1
stone.
2011-11-2.
Belstone, pound, village stocks, memorial stone, well, Ivy Tor, Belstone
Cleave, Walrus Stone, ponies, Ladybrook or Ottery Tor, water works, Irishman's
Wall, River Taw, blowing house, fungi, Massey Ferguson tractor, water pump.
2011-10-26. Pony, rainbow, Bellever Tor, Sawdye's Newtake, Dunna Brook, slotted gateposts,
pintle, Laughter Tor, Loughtor Man, sheepfold, Bill Munro Memorial Stone,
Laughter Tor Cross, Haytor Rocks, Postman's Track, Brimpts North Tin Mine,
Judge's Seat, Smooth newt.
2011-10-19.
Burrator Quarry, Yennadon Crags / Cleag / Claig / Click Tor, Sheepstor, Burrator
Reservoir, Leather Tor, Burrator Halt, oak tree, dam, lichen, Devonport Leat,
beach, Down Tor, Lowery Barn, sett makers' bankers.
2011-10-12.
River Lyd, stile, magic mushrooms, Lydford / Bridestowe-Sourton parish boundary
stone, Nodden Gate, King Way Cross, Rattlebrook Peat Railway, bridge, stepping
stones.
2011-10-5. A misty
walk. RB stones, gate hanger stone, Cox Tor (formerly Cock's Tor), PW stone.
2011-8-31.
Haytor Rock, Low Man, Teign estuary, gorse, heather, Haytor quarry, granite
tramway, Templer Way, Hound Tor, inscribed granite rails, Bonehill Rocks, water
lilies, crane winding mechanism, rowan, wedge and groove, whim stone,
blackberries, Bagtor/Ilsington Manor boundary stone, Fox Moth caterpillar.
2011-8-24.
Round house, medieval lazy beds, Dunstone and Bittleford Downs, Rowden Ball,
French's Lane, slotted gate posts, Devil's Bit Scabious, Alder, Bird Cherry, oak
leaf galls, pig pen, Jordan,
Indian Bean Tree,
linhay, mowhay, wall-built stiles, sheep creeps,
tractor, livestock feeder, gorse and heather, Hutholes, Wind Tor, Honeybag Tor,
Chinkwell Tor, Belted Galloway cow, Two Crosses stone.
2011-8-17. Venford Reservoir, auxiliary overflow, notice, triple mortar stone, nest boxes,
rosebay willowherb, thistle, longhouse ruins, Venford Brook, rainfall notice,
ducks, tree roots, pine cone, RD/H boundary stones, White Wood, Sharp Tor, Mel
Tor, Bench Tor, River Dart, PUDC, 4th Anniversary cake!
2011-8-3.
DCP - Directors of Convict Prisons marker stone, sundew, ling, cross-leaved
heath, Black Brook, peat tramway remains(?), dung bonnets, modern gate stile,
stonework, thistles, Fice's Well, tick, Prison Leat.
2011-7-27. Bellever Forest, Krap's Ring, stone rows, cairn circles, cist,
Bellever Tor, round house archaeological dig, post hole, tree root, Lich Way.
2011-7-20. Anthony Stile, Rowtor, West Mill Tor, Yes Tor
2011-6-29.
Combestone Tor, pony, foals, wind-shaped hawthorn trees, Sharp Tor, Dart
Valley, Wheal Emma Leat (now dry), clapper bridge, Cumston Farm Leat, Hamlyn's
(Holne Moor) Leat, O Brook
Valley,
Heath
Spotted Orchid, O Brook, foxglove, soft rush, bog asphodel, Horse Ford, Hooten
Wheals tin mine, cist, cairn. Horn's Cross, triple stone row, umbrella tree,
Warren House Inn, Hangman's Pit.
2011-6-22.
Little Staple Tor, Middle Staple Tor, Great Staple Tor, parish boundary stone (Whitchurch/Peter
Tavy), Roos Tor, red flag, stone markers, Duke of Bedford pillars, Cox Tor,
Beckamoor Dip, sundew insectivorous plant, old Sortridge and Grimstone Leat.
2011-6-15.
Merripit Hill, RAF Radio Direction Finding Station, Stannon House, Stannon
Great Newtake, Assycombe Hill, Birch Tor & Vitifer Mine Leat, pound, cist,
whortleberries, slug, Lady's Bedstraw / Heath Bedstraw, stone row, lousewort,
cross-leaved heath.
2011-6-8.
Stone row, cow, cairn and cist, sunken lane, Black Tor, Devonport Leat, clapper
bridge, Red Indian or Turk's doll's head, aqueduct, River Meavy, logan stone,
round house, gate hender, stile, dung bonnets, Stenlake Farm.
2011-5-25. Butterdon rifle range butts, 100 & 150 yards marker stones,
Hangershell Rock, Hobajohn's Cross, cloudscape, the Lazarus stone (formerly
recumbent longstone), Redlake railway track, green hairstreak butterfly, china
clay pipeline inspection pit, Erme valley, Piles Gate, Sharp Tor, bluebells,
early purple orchid, Pile Copse, Hanger Down Clump, hut circles, buttercup,
Money Box, cist, May blossom.
2011-5-18.
A misty, atmospheric day: Burrator Reservoir, spiders' webs, rhododendron
flowers, weirs, water monitoring station, Fyshinge Feast, yellow flag iris,
uncovered submerged
road and
bridge, exposed tree stump, bluebells, sunken lane, wild mint, mystery seedlings
at water's edge, submerged gatepost, stone with square hole, granite troughs,
Longstone
Manor,
cider press, keeves, cast-iron PCWW marker, weeping hawthorn.
2011-5-11.
Station Cottages, Dartmoor Brewery, GWR horse stable, PCWW 1932 stone, station
master's house, piece of rail, Sitka spruce, Sheep's Tor, Leather Tor, Sharpitor,
bridges, sedge, tormentil, buttercup, Foggintor Quarry, crane base, blacksmith's
shop, hawthorn, may blossom, moorland crowfoot, broom.
2011-5-4. A
plethora of bluebells: bull warning sign, sheep creep, sunburnt bluebell leaf
tips, Emsworthy Farm, dried up leat, sycamore tree, slotted gate posts,
Emsworthy Rocks, buttercup, heath milkwort, violet, Haytor, Saddle Tor, cotton
grass, Rippon Tor, Holwell Lawn, bluebells - lots!
2011-4-20.
Willsworthy Ranges, Emperor Moth cocoon, Black Hill, Ring o' Bells cairn, Down
Pool, WD (War Department) boundary stone, WB (Willsworthy Manor) bound stone,
Wheal Jewell leat and reservoir, Mine Leat, firing range scenes.
2011-4-13.
Okehampton Training Camp, training of recruits in various aspects of battle
fieldcraft, appreciation of Dartmoor - its archaeology and wildlife, military
items and mementoes, ponies of various breeds, gorse blossom, Moor Brook, Halstock Bridge, Fitz's Cross, Fitz's Well, St. Michael's Bungalow,
105 mm pack howitzer.
2011-4-6.
Longash Leat, dung bonnets, blocking stones, double stone row, King's Tor,
Little King's Tor, Longstone, Yellowmeade farm, railway track, logan stone,
London Bridge corbels, wooden sleepers, nails, railway platform, blacksmith's
shop, Swelltor Quarry entrance, bridge, Pu Tor, clay sett marker CW 2 stone,
Hucken Tor, Vixen Tor, Great Staple Tor, Pila Brook, hawthorn trees, blossom, TA
stone.
2011-3-23.
Steps Bridge, Dunsford Reserve, Teign Valley Woods, Devon Wildlife Trust, weir,
leat valves, coracles, river-side paths, wild daffodils, wood anemones, oak
tree, dog's mercury, hazel catkins, lesser periwinkle.
2011-3-16.
A superb day with all-over blue sky and sunshine: Four Winds car park, Foggintor
School, Longash Leat, King's Tor, West Mead Quarry, Red Cottages, Great Staple
Tor, Roos Tor, Hill 60 Quarry, Harry's Box, Hollow Tor, Great Mis Tor, North
Hessary Tor, TA stones,
Sir
Thomas Tyrwhitt's horse-drawn tramway, the Cake Stone, settlement, explosive
stores, lichen.
2011-3-9. Mole
hills, pony training circle, Hexworthy, Week Ford stepping stones, Sharp Tor,
Haytor, Saddle Tor, Rippon Tor, Horse Ford Cross, Hexworthy mine office, Hooten
Wheals mine, Hensroost Mine, barracks, bullet holes, clapper bridge, O Brook,
flat-rod track, gerts, reservoir, adder.
2011-3-2. Blackaton / Roman's Cross, Trowlesworthy Tor,
Sheep's Tor, gert, single stone row, rabbit warren, rabbit bury, pillow mound,
hut circle, sheep bridge, The Pulpit stone circle, double stone row, china clay
pits, Spanish Lake, Shell Top, Penn Beacon, possible mudstone, breccia, pony jaw
bones, Hanging Stone, frog spawn, granite constituents.
2011-2-23. Teign estuary, sheep creep, Welstor Common
rifle range, maidenhair spleenwort, quarry, bullet-stop, frog spawn, Wells Tor
or Welstor Rock, Buckland Beacon, Ten Commandments stones, ponies. trees, bird
pellet, parish boundary stones, EFP - Edmund Pollexfen Bastard, Lord of the
Manor of Buckland in the Moor, 1837.
2011-2-16. Dartmeet road bridge, clapper bridge, River
Dart confluence of East & West Dart Rivers, turkey, canoe access point,
Combestone Tor, gorse, Week Ford, stepping stones, St. Raphael's Church,
foxglove plant, snowdrops, mementoes of the old school.
2011-2-9. Longstone Leat, Tharashelcombe = Drasselcombe =
Drizzlecombe, Ditsworthy Bungalow, Dartmoor's tallest menhir, Giant's Basin
cairn, cist 1, cist 2, Drizzle Combe ford, Ailsborough = Eylesbarrow tin mine,
stamping mill, smelting house, blast furnace, reverberatory furnace, flue,
dressing floor, wheel pit, corn ditch, Outholme cist (cist 3).
2011-2-2. Two Crosses, Dunstone manor boundary stone, the
Blue Stone (and the Grey Stone?), ponies, Church Way, cow, Blackaton Cross,
Peltigera lichen, Harchwell sign, stone gate hanger, Langworthy Farm sign, white
heather, sheep creep, Pennywort.
2011-1-26. Magpie or Bedford Bridge, Wheal Franco copper
mine, brick works, Magpie Viaduct, mine shaft, woodland scenes, Horrabridge
Station, bracket fungus, Roborough Down, Screw Bridge, Grenofen Viaduct, Gem
Cottage.
2011-1-19.
A sunny walk on a very cold day, with black ice and an articulated lorry
stuck on the approach road into the forest. Fernworthy Reservoir, round house,
ice crystals, Lowton Brook settlement, Asacombe Hill/Assycombe Hill, double
stone row, blocking stone, Asacombe Brook settlement, Asacombe Farm remains,
pixie's matchsticks, steaming tree trunks, frost crystals on a gate.
2011-1-12. Twyste Farm / Twist, attempted "venville" holding, slotted gate post, sheep
creep, Broadmoor Brook, clapper bridge, layered hazel hedge, Devon U nited Mine
features, leat, buildings, shafts, ponies, Thomson Turbine, hazel catkins, River
Tavy movie, gorse flower, Longtimber Tor, St Peter's Church - Peter Tavy,
restored village cross.
2011-1-5.
Bagtor Down, leat, manorial boundary stone between Ilsington and Bagtor manors,
Bag Tor, rock pan, gert, Bagtor Cottages, stream, clapper bridge, slotted
five-barred gateposts, Happy New Year!
2010-12-15. Sheep, Lydford/Bridestowe/Sourton
parishes boundary stone, Widgery Cross, Bray Tor, Arms Tor, Great Links Tor,
Little Links Tor, King Way, Rattlebrook railway, Great Nodden, newly-found
cross, King Wall, corn ditch, Lake viaduct, cross base, Strollers Christmas
lunch.
2010-12-8. Plymouth Leat, Drake's Leat,
Devonport Leat, clapper
bridge, Clearbrook, The Skylark Inn, pony, South Devon & Tavistock Railway,
Clearbrook Halt, bridges, River Meavy, Yeoland Consols mine, Sheep's Tor,
granite trough, horse drawn tramway, Plymouth & Dartmoor
Railway, Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, Tyrwhitt's Wharf.
2010-12-1.
King's Oven car park, Warren House Inn, Fox Moth caterpillar, V-stones, King's Oven, Water Hill, Hurston Ridge, Assycombe Hill, double stone
row, Kes Tor, Natty's Castle, Four Aces enclosures.
2010-11-24. Bellever Forest, Laughter Hole House,
Laughter Hole Farm, Loughtor, epiphytic lichen, goat, string-of-sausages lichen,
Usnea articulata, Loughtor Gate, blocking stone, Loughtor Man, Haytor,
Laughter Tor, Haytor, sheep measure, Bill Mudge Memorial, Laughter Tor Cross.
2010-11-17.
Shaugh Bridge drying sheds, River Plym, River Meavy, new 2010 footbridge, movies
of the rivers, Shaugh Brick Works, Ferro-Ceramic Company, Brogden-Caspar Tunnel
Kiln, exposed tree bole, Dewerstone Quarry, Count House, embankment, bridge
pier, Urgles Cross, sunken lane, quarry brake drum gear, inclined plane, railway
granite setts with nails and nail holes, crane base, The Pixie, iron mine,
Common Polypody.
2010-11-10.
Sharp Tor, reave, Yar Tor, cairn, Corndon Tor, Cathanger Rock, Money Pit, Cave-Penney Cross,
Belstone Bible, Honeybag Tor, Chinkwell Tor, Bell Tor, Mel Tor, gatepost memorial to CNG,
large hut circle.
2010-11-3. William Rees Jeffreys, Grimstone &
Sortridge leat, Vixen Tor, cist, SB/WB parish bound stone, Sampford Spiney
parish and Whitchurch parish bounds, Heckwood Tor, feather & tares, broken
trough, clapper bridge, Feather Tor, lichen, apple crusher / cider press, fungi,
Windy Post or Beckamoor Cross, Bullseye Stone, wooden wedge marks, Barn Hill,
Blacksmith's Shop, Whitchurch Common, wheelwright's form, aqueduct, longhouse.
2010-10-27.
New Bridge, River Dart, Rock Pavement, Deeper Marsh, Leigh Tor, Iron Age pound,
crab apples, oak tree, spangle galls, woodland views, holly with berries,
unidentified flower, Leigh Tor Pumping Station, granite seat, puffball, lichen,
Victorian Lily Pond.
2010-10-20. River Plym,
Spanish Lake, Trowlseworthy Tors (saddle between), �The Drum�, settlements,
Trowlseworthy Warren farm.
2010-10-13.
Hexworthy, cows, Yellow Brain Fungus, O Brook valley, gorse roots, Horse Ford
Cross, Hexworthy mine buildings, wartime bullet holes, views of track, quartz, O
Brook, bridges, leat, Hensroost gert, reservoir, Skir Ford Cross.
2010-9-29. Postbridge clapper bridge, road bridge, mould stone, Kraps Ring hut
circle, Lakehead Hill cairn circle, fallen willow, short stone row, cairn circle
and cist, Bellever Tor, ragwort, second cairn and cist, Yellow Stag's-horn
Fungus, Fly Aharic, Cep or Penny Bun Mushroom, unidentified fungus.
2010-9-22.
A misty day! New Waste, Stall Moor, Stalldown stone row, Stall Barrow, Hillson's House,
Fox Moth caterpillar, Erme, Tristis Rock, PRDC marker.
2010-9-15.
Bronze Age round house, hut circle, Sharpitor, Fox Moth caterpillar, Steven
Spielberg film company, Leeden Tor, Sweltor Quarry, dung bonnet toadstool, cist,
ponies, Ingra Tor, Western gorse, Ingra Tor quarry, disused railway track, Ingra
Tor Halt station platform, cattle creep, Bronze Age enclosures/pounds.
2010-9-8.
Venford East car park, South Devon cows, Dry Channel, Hamlyn's (Holne Moor) Leat,
Tormentil, fallen tree, gulley, gert, trench, Ringleschutes Mine, engine house
area, collapsed chimney, cairns, RD/H - PUDC catchment area boundary stones,
Holne Town Gutter,
gorse, spider -
Araneus quadratu.
2010-9-1.
Willsworthy Firing Range notice, H stone, troop shelter, leat from Wallabrook to
Wheal Jewell mine, target apparatus, Hare Tor, rusty tracked vehicles, target
railway, Great Nodden, Bray Tor, Great Links Tor, renovated newtake wall, WD
stone.
2010-8-18.
Bellever Forest, car park, stinkhorn fungus, Bellever Farm, Bellever bridge,
C-stone, East Dart River, clapper bridge, grooved clapper stones, Whiteslade
Farm / Snaily House, string-of-sausages lichen, pixie's matchsticks, maidenhair
spleenwort, rowan, gorse, sitka spruce, Pimms.
2010-8-11. Billy Bray
(Methodist preacher), Tavy Cleave, old milk churns, Old School House, Hill
Bridge Weir, Wheal Friendship Leat, Creason Wood, waterwheel, River Tavy, Common, English or Pedunculate
oak, sycamore, sluice, Woodland Trust, Black Tor, leat, Herb-Robert, hazel
nuts, meadowsweet, red campion, old tin miners' cottage, house martins, farm
yard, Methodist chapel, burial ground, hay meadow, monkey puzzle tree.
2010-8-4.
OPB - Okehampton Parish Boundary stones, Cullever Steps, ford, Black-a-ven
Brook, East Okement/East Ockment River, stepping stones, Scarey Tor, wooden
wedge rock splitting, unfinished mill stone, East Bowden or Higher Halstock
farm, Tarka Trail, Belstone Tor, Nine Stones, Irishman's Wall, cairn circle,
kistvaen, pixies' or devil's matchsticks, WD stone.
2010-7-28. Toadstools, Cholwich Town
Farm Cross, Tolchmoor Gate, ragwort, Cholwich Town Bottom, Ridding Down, Lee Moor, bumble bee, chamomile, Derriford
Hospital, Broomage Farm, maidenhair spleenwort, well, clover, branched
tree-bole, clay settling pond, Mr Toad, bullrush, Pen Beacon, mushroom, Headon
Down Clay Works, Hanger
Down Clump, Maurice Steer's seat, Delamore House, blackberries.
2010-7-21.
Belstone stocks, memorial monolith, pound, telegraph office, Zion chapel, The
Tors Inn, St Mary the Virgin Church, font, Belstone incised cross, Belstone
Cleave, Ashbury Tor, Moor Brook, East Okement River, Halstock Bridge & stepping
stones, Black Hut / Watchet Hill Cottage, Exmoor, Yes Tor, riders, Nine
Maidens, Belstone Tor, Higher Tor, bench mark, Tarka Trail, water works.
2010-7-14.
Dartmoor Inn, Merrivale Quarry, Middle Staple Tor, marsh thistle, dung bonnets,
Grey Dawn Quarry, fern (Broad Buckler?), Vixen Tor, yellow flower (Shrubby
Cinquefoil?), hen, gate hanger, gate post
holes, Little Wonder Bridge, Pila Brook, picturesque path, cow wheat, sedum, Hucken Tor,
Usnea,
King's Tor, funnel web, Labyrinth spider, railway tracks, logan stone, Staple Tors, Great
Mis Tor, Little Mis Tor, Four Winds, Yellowmeade Farm, Marsh St John's Wort, TA stone, stone rows,
cist, round house/hut circle, millstone.
2010-7-7. On a grey,
misty day - Rowtor, gun emplacements, targets, Moor Brook, Yes Tor, dung
bonnets, High Willhays, benchmark.
2010-6-30. Cadover
Bridge, River Plym, Sundew, Cadover Cross, cairn, Wigford Down, Ringmoor
Cottage, Sheep's Tor, cows, hawthorn tree, lichen, longhouse, Dewerstone Rock,
inscriptions, Cadworthy Tor, cairn circle, cist.
2010-6-23.
Arboretum, Burrator Reservoir, filled-in gateway, Sharpitor, Leather Tor,
Sheep's Tor, heather flowers, Gutter Tor, Scout Hut, Yellowmead Down multiple
stone circle, Down Tor, Roughtor Plantation, Combshead Tor, Cuckoo Rock,
Sheepstor Church,
Feather Bed,
Altocumulus undulatus, Pixie's Cave, pillow mound, climbers, Maiden Tor, Chinook helicopter,
granite trough.
2010-6-16.
Lych Way or The Way of the Dead, Bellever Forest, The Hairy Hand of Dartmoor,
Sitka spruce, animal clamp, Princetown, Bellever Tor, Laughter Tor, Bellever Tor
letterbox, prehistoric settlement, Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust ponies, Rough
Hawkbit.
2010-6-9. Hawthorn blossom, bluebell,
Teign estuary, WWII bullet stop, EPB 1837 boundary markers, milkwort, Dartmoor
ponies, sheep creep, Buckland Beacon, The Ten Commandments Stones, Wells Tor (Welstor
Rock), WWI rifle range, lime-loving ferns growing
on old mortar - maidenhair
spleenwort, black spleenwort.2010-5-26. Venford
Reservoir, commemorative plaques on the dam, RD H / PUDC stones, Pipe Walk,
hawthorn blossom, Grey Willow, Sharp Tor, charcoal loading bay/small quarry,
charcoal burning area, water pipe, "Deb'n vylit" (possibly wood dog violet), bluebells, Dr
Blackall's Drive,
Bell Tor, Lady's Bedstraw, slotted gatepost, flower-1, bird pellet. flower-2,
Bench Tor, Dartmoor ponies, Yar Tor, Corndon Tor, Venford Reservoir, Medieval
square fields, Bronze Age strip fields, round house, reeve.
2010-6-2. Middleworth
Farm, shippen, hayloft, Heath Speedwell,
track towards Deancombe, approach to Deancombe Farm, possible pigsty, granite
trough, Deancombe Farm remains, String of sausages lichen
(Usnea articulata),
Spotted Wood
butterfly,
rare giant
granite mushroom - otherwise known as staddle stones, grinding stone for
sharpening farm implements and tools, Cuckoo Rock, unknown plant, second set of staddle stones at Deancombe, a conifer tree growing in / on an oak tree,
Narrator Brook, bluebells, mortar stones, Heath Spotted Orchid, orange fungus,
Outholme Farm, shaped granite mullion; Down Tor, Leather, Sharpitor, Combeshead Farm cave, cache, growan,
hawthorn blossom, Hingston
stone row, cairn circle, Burrator reservoir,
sheep.
2010-5-19. 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.
2010-5-12.
Smeardon Down car park, emergency shelter, Boulter's Tor, Great Combe Tor,
bluebells, tormentil, Colly Brook, Wedlake or Peter Tavy Brook, wild flowers, Spanish bluebells, dovecote, red valerian, Church of St. Peter,
Peter Tavy,
village cross, scaly male fern, gatepost, Longtimber Tor, River Tavy, Mary Tavy hydro-electricity power station, mould stone, mill stone, cider press,
Thompson turbine, mining artefacts of Devon United South Mine.
2010-5-5.
Postbridge clapper bridge, road bridge, dippers, East Dart river, moorland
crowfoot, willows, Hartland Tor, Braddon Lake, Roundy Park, The Sheepfold, Beehive Hut,
fissured granite, grasses, frog, Whinney's Down Brook, lichen,
Birch Tor and Vitifer Mine Leat, Higher White Tor,
Broadun Ring, cist.
2010-4-28. Stitchwort,
primrose, 1840 farm plaque, trees, trees. more trees, Cholwich Town China Clay
Works, ivy on tree trunk, rhododendron, blackthorn blossom (Sloe - Prunus
spinosa), deer hide, pat work cirrocumulus cloud, lined
leat, common or creeping
wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella), possible carriage drive bridge, common
liverwort (Pellia epiphylla).
2010-4-21.
Jimmy Bickle's Lane, step stile, church stile, Horrabridge, Pew Tor,
Great Staple Tor, Vixen Tor, IngraTor, lesser celandine, violets,
dandelion, dry leat, halo around the sun, dismantled Plymouth & Dartmoor
Railway, poetry
plaque, stone row, spring, Black Brook, cattle "creep",
new-born lamb, Gipsy Rock, daffodils, crustose lichen, Dartmoor longhouse.
2010-4-14.
Bel Tor Corner, Bel Tor, Venford Reservoir, Sharp Tor, Mel Tor, slotted gate
posts (two types), Dr Blackall's Drive, Double Dart River, common gorse,
Blackthorn blossom (Sloe - Prunus spinosa), with lichen, Leigh
Tor,
elder tree, oak tree, wild sweet violet, Dartmoor ponies.
2010-4-7. Grimstone &
Sortridge Leat, bullseye stones, Sampford Spiney parish boundary stones, Pew
Tor, Prowtytown Rocks, Windy Post, also known as Windy Post Cross, Windystone
and Beckamoor Cross, Feather Tor, feather-and-tares,
abandoned granite mill
stone, "hot-cross bun" Pew Tor marker stones, Dartmoor ponies, WWII bomb crater,
Brentor and marker stone, daffodils.
2010-3-31.
Willsworthy Firing Range notice at Lane End car park, moss-covered hedge shrubs,
pennywort, Willsworthy Manor Pound, Will cottages (1816), WD 40 stone, WD 38 stone, WD 37
stone, Baggator, Round Wood / South Common Plantation, stiles,
Willsworthy
Brook, laid hazel hedge, hard fern, maidenhair spleenwort, common polypody,
filled-in gateway.
2010-3-24.
Widecombe-in-the-Moor, yew tree, brew or ale house, Church House, The Old Inn,
lych gate, coffin stone, 15" naval shell, National Trust signs, St Pancras
Church - The Cathedral on the Moor, snowdrops, wild daffodils, Widecombe cross,
the Widecombe sign (monolith), Uncle Tom Cobley etc., village green, gatepost
with an incised cross, "wedge-and-groove" marks, crystals, sunken lane, Dartmoor
ponies, lichens, swaled gorse, slotted gateposts, fungus on fallen tree trunk,
sundial, church screen inserts, two-way plough, Tucker Stone, bell clappers,
stained glass windows, church kissing gate.
2010-3-17.
Burrator quarry, granite road posts, Drake's Leat/Plymouth Leat, oak tree,
Burrator Dam, hazel catkins, commemorative plaques, suspension bridge anchor
points, Longstone Manor, windstrew, cider press, keeves, air raid shelter, growan, quarry interface between Devonian
Period rocks (370 million years old) and
Dartmoor granite (Permian Period, 280 million years old), gorse flowers.
2010-3-10.
Princetown Brewery, North Hessary Tor TV transmitter, Dartmoor ponies, River
Meavy head, frog spawn, Sheep's Tor, Leather Tor, Sharpitor, Sir Thomas
Tyrwhitt's horse-drawn Plymouth & Dartmoor Railway, Princetown, hut circles,
reeve, PCWW 1917 Burrator Reservoir water catchment area boundary stone,
Foggintor Quarry, Great Mis Tor, "TA" stones between Tavistock and Ashburton
parishes, PCWW 1932 stone, railway stables.
2010-3-4.
Pixies Matchsticks, Sheep's Tor, Down Tor, Newleycombe Cross, Burrator
Reservoir, Hingston Hill stone row, Devonport Leat, Driveage Bottom, clapper
bridges, water works hut, weirs, sluice gate, Devonport Leat Cross (also
known as
Hutchinson's Cross), Devonport Leat tunnel, the old smithy, Nun's Cross (aka
Siward's Cross).
2010-2-24.
Plymouth Leat - also called Drake's Leat, clapper bridge, gorse flowers, breached leat
wall, Roborough Down Lane, site of the body under the bridge (2001), Sir Thomas
Tyrwhitt's Plymouth & Dartmoor Railway (a horse-drawn tramway), tramway
stones, Iron Age Earthwork, trig. point, Devonport Leat.
2010-2-10.
A wintry walk - freezing on the high moor above Okehampton. Row Tor, West Mill
Tor, East Mill Tor, gun emplacements, steel target, target railway, Yes Tor,
Winter Tor, New Bridge, East Okement Farm, OP22 - Observation Post 22, old
Lydford boundary stone.
2010-2-3.
A misty walk to see Gutter Tor, army lorries, rock basin, four vermin traps, newly-found unfinished
stone cross, nearby abandoned apple-crusher, rabbit buries (pillow mounds), Ditsworthy Warren House with many features
incl. dog kennels and ferret cage,
River Plym, weir head for the Bottle Hill Mine leat or Lee Moor leat to the Big Pond, Ware's Garden,
Drizzlecombe stone rows, Scout Hut.
2010-1-27.
West Black Down, boundary stone, Was Tor, frozen water on the track, Southern
Railway line, calf, mine shaft, mine workings, Brent Tor, Brentor church, Gibbet
Hill, triangulation point.
2010-1-20. Grimstone and Sortridge Leat, clapper bridge, Vixen Tor, Merrivale Quarry, sett
makers' bankers, pixies' matchsticks, Middle Staple Tor, Little Staple Tor and
sign in the Rees Jeffrey's car park
2009-12-16. Fox & Hounds
Hotel, beech trees with extensive roots, old railway, cycle route 27,
platelayer's hut, gorse, wayside seats, shoe-tree, black sheep, Widgery Cross,
Bray Tor, King's Way, Boundary Stone - Bridestowe, Sourton & Lydford parishes.
2009-12-9.
Venford Reservoir, dam, leat, Medieval field system, Dart Valley, Bench
Tor, Sharp Tor, charcoal burner's wotsit, witch's brooms, water pipe,
wind-shaped Rowan, bracket fungus, lichen.
2009-12-2.
Shaugh Moor Bowling Green car park, WWII signaling post, unidentified fungus,
"H" boundary post, burned gorse, Hawk's Tor, wedge and groove rock
splitting method, Golden Plover, Saddleborough Cairns stone circles,
rediscovered stone row (small stones).
2009-11-25. Hemsworthy
Gate, Stittleford's (Stentiford's)
Cross, Haytor, Saddle Tor, boundary stones "A 1793" stone, Pil Tor, Top Tor,
mill stone, cairns, reeve, Teignmouth, mill stone incised with a cross, a rough
cross, rainbow, moss, lichen, Pixies Matchsticks, fungi.
2009-11-11.
Parke (National Trust - leased to Dartmoor National Park Authrority), apple
tree, mistletoe, walled garden, fungus, ant's nest, honeycomb, river views,
Canute's Throne, weir, old railway track, specimen trees, Haytor tramway rails
as fence posts, mushrooms, Parke House, hay wagon, Dartmoor pony sledge, Haytor
tramway truck, Devon cart.
2009-11-4.
Yennadon Down, Burrator Halt railway station, Burrator Dam, Sheep's Tor, mill
stone, Burrator Lodge, corrugated iron building, Lowery threshing barn,
Devonport Leat, sluices, clapper bridge, Honey Fungus.
2009-10-28.
Okehampton Station, railway viaduct, weirs, East Okement River, stepping stones,
clam bridge, Moor Brook, salmon spawning pool, Belstone Tor, Higher Tor, iron
age settlement ditch, cheese factory, Lower Halstock Farm,
Row Tor,
West Mill Tor, Yes Tor, Army Camp. Photos c/o Peter.
2009-10-21.
Pentillie Castle, East Cornwall.
2009-10-14.
Burrator Reservoir PCWW 1917 catchment area boundary stone, Nun's Cross, Nun's
Cross Farm, Sluices, Devonport Leat, Fox Tor Mire, Northmore's Cross, Whealham
Bottom Cross, clapper bridge.
2009-10-7.
A wet, misty day. Bennett's Cross, small clapper bridge, World War I lookout
post, VB marker stone, Hookney Tor, Grimspound, Headland Warren Farm, ponies,
Birch Tor.
2009-9-30.
Gutter Tor, Sheeps Tor, anti-deer wall, boundary work, Outhome cist, Fox Moth
caterpillar, Combshead Tor, Down Tor, Cuckoo Rock, PCWW 1919 marker stone,
Longstone Leat, Yellowmead multiple stone circle, Leather Tor, Sharpitor, fly agaric
fungus.
2009-9-23.
Shapley Common, hut circles, stone walls, West Coombe Newtake, rowan
berries, highland cattle, West Coombe farm block work, ash house, large
granite gate posts, Mariner's Way, slotted gate post, Leapra or Leeper Cross,
2009-9-16.
Dartmoor ponies, Bellever Tor, Laughter Tor, Beardown Tors, Longaford Tor,
Brimpts Mine Leat, old 5-barred gate with slotted and grooved gateposts, clapper
bridge, ling, more Dartmoor ponies and Dunnabridge Pound.
2009-9-2.
Wheal Jewell Reservoir, drained for cleaning and re-sealing, and Wheal Betsy.
2009-8-12. Swallerton Gate, old
drinking trough, old cross used in a wall, Jacob's sheep, Dartmoor ponies,
Bowerman's Nose, "lick" box, Haytor, Saddle Tor, lichen, bell heather,
common
ling, yellow flower, thistle, Jay's Grave.
2009-8-5. Holming
Beam, firing range warning signs, Cowsic River, Lydford Tor, Beardown Tors, Crow
Tor, Devil's Tor, Longaford Tor, Higher White Tor, river bridge, Long
Plantation, Princetown, stable for Range Officer's pony, Devonport Leat
take-off point, Sundew, cross-leaved heath, bell heather.
2009-7-22.
Swincombe Valley, Dolly Trebble's House, John Bishop semi-dressed walling, Belted Galloway cattle, dry Wheal Emma leat, Swincombe Bridge, Swincombe Ford
Bridge, Fairy Bridge, John Bishop's
House, Cladonia cup lichen, medieval Tavistock-Ashburton pack horse track, horse and foal, crazing mill
stones, mortar stones, moould stones, wheelpit.
2009-7-15.
Princetown, drinking fountain, structure from the overhead ropeway for bringing
logs from from Brimpts to the railway(?), Blackbrook River, Devonport Leat, Batchelor's Hall, sheep, Conchie's
Road, Crock of Gold cairn circle and cist, Blakey Tor East cist, Blakey Tor.
2009-7-1.
Yelverton, yellow flower, Harrowbeer airfield (site of), Plymouth-Tavistock
railway, bomb-rolling platform, seat plaque (Wonnacott), Walkhampton, Higher
Dittisham, Kilroy, Magpie viaduct, foxglove, Wheal Franco adit, bridge construction, wall
stonework, National Cycle Route 27 (see
previous walk). Finally, a special "Thank you" to Sam for hospitality
afterwards.
2009-6-24.
Drakes (Plymouth) Leat, Sheeps Tor, Peek's Hill, Sharpitor, various wild flowers
- incl. foxglove, meadow buttercup, dog rose, bindweed,
National Cycle Network,
Route 27,
site of Shaugh Platform, Smokies Tunnel,
Bickleigh Vale Phoenix
Mine - also known as Tunnel Mine, River Meavy, shrub roses, ling or common
heather. Finally, a special "Thank you" to Celia and Alan for hospitality during the
walk.
2009-6-17.
Crownhill Down, Lee Moor china clay works, Headon Down clay works, Broomage
Farm, Whitehill Tor, Crownhill Tor, a brick, Mumford Cottage, a stile for
giants, gatepost, stone circle, tree lichen, Lee Moor boundary post, wild
thyme?
2009-6-10.
Grenofen, River Walkham, woods, trees, trees, trees, wild flower etc.
2009-6-3.
Crockern Tor, Bellever Tor, Littaford Tors, Beardown Tors, West Dart valley,
Wistman's Wood, fern, moss, lichens, Usnea (Beard Lichen or Tree Moss), Greater Stitchwort,
Sedum, inscribed Wentworth Buller stone, Crow Tor.
2009-5-27.
From Long Ash Garden Centre, Yelverton, wet moorland, wet grass, wet bracken,
wet paths, wet trees, wet sheep, wet cows, wet walkers, wet bluebells,
whitebells,
Iron Age
settlement, fort or pound with surrounding ditch ("Castle Field"), Berra Tor / Burra Tor / Beara Tor, badgers sett.
2009-5-13.
Plymbridge woods, canal, tramway, viaduct, peregrine falcons, trees .........
2009-5-6. Hound
Tor, cairn circle and cist, Haytor, dew pond, grass (Carex species), Greator Rocks, reave,
Holwell Lawn, bumble bee, Holwell Tor, pixie land, Harvey's jump, lichens
blowing in the wind, laurel flowers,
Medieval
village, longhouses, drying barns for corn, the witch.
2009-4-29.
Boulter's Tor, Setters Tor, settlement and White Tor, Great Combe Tor,
lichens, sundew, sheep moving, haycutter and scuffler, new-born lamb, Brentor, Peter Tavy, swimming pool, gorse,
lousewort,
cuckoo flower (Lady's smock), Colly Brook/ Wedlake/ Peter Tavy Brook, bluebells, ramson (wild
garlic), Red Devon cattle.
2009-4-22.
Two Crosses, Wind Tor, common gorse, western gorse, violet, Drywell crossroads,
Drywell Cross, early purple orchid, pink purslane, Dockwell, Hutholes
medieval
village, longhouses, cooking pit, drying kilns for corn, National Park
information board, May blossom / hawthorn, slotted gatepost, water crowfoot.
2009-4-15.
Sharpitor, Stanlake Plantation, Stanlake Farm, Devonport Leat, clapper bridge,
Indian doll's head, River Meavy, aqueduct, Black Tor, Logan Stone, double
stone row, cairn, cist.
2009-3-18.
Burrator, dam, gorse, suspension bridge anchor points, earth dam, Longstone Manor,
cider press, cider keeves, windstrew - raised threshing floor, slotted gate post, wild
daffodils,
bracket fungus - all on a
clear, blue-sky day with some haze in the distance.
2009-3-11.
Harefoot Cross car park, Top Tor, Pil Tor, Blackslade Down, cairn and cist,
Whittaburrow and cairn, Tunhill Rocks, hut circle and homestead,
Widecombe-in-the-Moor, frog spawn and Bovey Rock.
2009-2-25.
Sharpitor, hut circles, reeve, Leedon tor, Ingra Tor, quarry, circular crane
bases, railway halt.
2009-2-18.
Dartmeet, Badgers Holt, Brimpts Farm, spring, large hut circles, re-erected
doorway stones now fallen again, rabbit warren pillow mounds, Combestone Tor,
confluence of the East & West Dart rivers at Dartmeet, ancient clapper bridge at
Dartmeet.
2009-2-11. Smeardon Down, Boulters
Tor, Twyste Farm, grooved 5-bar granite gate post, sheep creep, granite roller,
Bronze age settlement with round houses/hut circles below White tor.
2009-1-28.
Parking near the Warren House Inn for King's Oven, Vee-stones, unfinished mill
stone, Water Hill cairn, Caroline Farm, disused mine shaft.
2009-1-21.
Blackaton Cross and Trowlesworthy Tors, with views to Leather tor, Sharpitor,
Sheeps Tor, Hexton Tor, Hen Tor.
2009-1-14. Great Mis Tor, Little
Mis Tor.
2009-1-7.
Middleworth Farm, Deancombe Farm, granite mushrooms, "Eeyore's
House", hut circle, frozen Burrator Reservoir, Down Tor, Snapper's Tor,
Norsworthy car park tin mine features.
2008-12-17. Walkhampton and
surrounding area, church, views, panorama of far tors, finishing with the
Christmas lunch in The Walkhampton Inn.
2008-12-10.
Bedford Bridge car park (Horrabridge), Roborough Common - in the Walkham
Valley, Grenofen viaduct.
2008-12-3.
A beautiful, cold day with an almost cloudless blue sky. Combestone Tor, Sharp
Tor, Wheal Emma dry leat, Holne Moor leat, clapper bridges, Bronze Age field
boundaries, Witches Broom(?), Holne track, West Dart River, Luckey
Tor, Medieval field features, small aqueduct.
2008-11-20. A very
grey day - Princetown, GWR stable, Princetown Brewery, Devils Elbow, Rifle
range, hut circles, Hart Tor, lichens, fungus, red moss, South Hessary Tor.
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