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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.

2008-11-6. New Waste Gate, Redaven Gulf, Stalldon Barrow stone row, Hillson'd House, cairns, cairn and cist, settlement, hut circles, leat, clapper bridge.

2008-10-14. DPA Fungus Foray at Yarner Wood/Trendlebeer Down

2008-10-9. Nunn's Cross area to Eyelsbarrow tick walk.

2008-9-18. Postbridge, Bellever Forest, Kraps Ring, cists, cairn circles, cairn circles & cists, stone row, Lakehead Hill, Bellever Tor.

2008-9-4. Harford Moor Gate, stone row (small), standing stones, Hobajohn's Cross, Spurrell's Cross, pool, cist, Hangershell Rock, Belted Galloway cattle, stone circles.

2008-8-22 Burrator, blowing house with mould stone, potato cave, River Meavy, potato cave, bridges. old farms, dolls head, aqueduct, sluices for water flow control, Crazy Well Pool, restored cross, old tin mine, worked stone.

2008-8-14 Lookney Tor, Grimspound, Hameldown Tor, Hammel Down Cross, Broad Barrow, Single Barrow, Two Barrows, Challacombe Medieval Village, tin scars.

2008-7-18 Whiteworks solitary cist and tin mine ruins, on a wet day.

2008-6-12 - Scout hut5, Whittenknowles Rocks / Settlement, Drizzle Combe stone rows, Giants Basin, cairns, cist, mine workings.

2008-6-9 Dartmoor Preservation Association walk led by John Howell. Postbridge, Lakehead Hill, stone row, 2 cists, Bellever Tor, stepping stones over the East Dart River, Snaily House, Bellever Clapper Bridge. Laughter Tor. Some of these antiquities are new compared to another walk on another walk on 2007-7-24.

2008-6-3 (3rd June) - High House Waste, lower-slope boggy area. A botanical walk with Dartmoor Preservation Association.

2008-5-29 - Trowlesworthy Farm, cist, leat, Spanish Lake, Great Trowlesworthy Tor, Little Trowlesworthy Tor, possible reave. This walk was based on Walk 7 - "To the time when rabbits were on the moor" in the Dartmoor Rescue Group book "Walking in Southern Dartmoor".

2008-5-22. A leaden sky for a visit to Hound Tor, cairn circle and cist (kistvaen), bluebells, Medieval settlement, Greator Rocks, Holwell Lawn, waterfalls, elusive boundary stone.

2008-5-8 2007-5-8. Batworthy, Kes Tor (or Kestor Rock on the OS map) on Chagford Common, the Long Stone, along the Teignhead Road (Harvey map) north-west wall of Fernworthy Forest, seeing the memorial to a marine along the way, as far as the North Teign River near Teinbridge Farm to see the clapper bridge memorial to FHS again. The return was for the most part back along the same route but diverting to revisit antiquities on Shovell Down. This walk relates to the 2008-4-14_WaternTor walk when Kes Tor was removed from the route.

2008-4-17 Hingstone Hill stone row.

2008-4-14. Batworthy Corner, Teign-e-ver Clapper Bridge, Wallabrook Bridge, Tolmen Stone, leat, Scorhill Circle, Watern Tor, cairn, Manga Hill, Teignbridge farm footbridge (FB5), FHS Memorial Footbridge, Shovel Down, Three Boys Standing Stone (fallen), Long Stone, Kestor Rock, stone rows and Round Pound.

2008-4-19 Finding more boundary stones across Haytor Down

2008-3-6  This walk is really a short GPS exercise to find stones in the Haytor Down area marked on the map as boundary stones. Stones engraved, 6, BB, IJ, Prince Albert and Owlacombe Burrow.

2008-2-18 - Haytor, Haytor quarry, Haytor Down, granite tramway/Templer Way, un-named tor(? but marked as a cairn), Black Hill, cairn, Duke of Somerset's boundary stones, gorse in bud, Rock Inn.

2008-2-11 - Venford reservoir banchmark, woodland track, 2 granite slabs, Lower Bench Tor, Higher Bench Tor, Venford dam, Venford reservoir. This walk completes an earlier walk that was curtailed on 19 October 2007 due to poor light, HERE.

2008-2-6 - East Rook Gate, boundary/leat, Penn Beacon, cairn, reave, Shell Top, Rosalie stone, River Yealm, blowing house, mould stone, Yealm Steps, second blowing house (across the river), Dendle's Waste, High House Waste.

2007-12-14 - Fernworthy Forest, stone row and circle, cairn, cist, Teignhead Farm, bridges, tinner's hut, The Grey Wethers restored double stone circle and nearby pound

2007-11-22 - Scout Hut - Eylesbarrow - cairns - disused tin mine - odd building structure (relates to 23 October walk) - cist

2007-11-15 - Harford Moor Gate - hut circles - Hangershell Rock - cairn - Cist 1 - Spurrell's Cross - Glasscombe Ball - more cairns - stone row - Glasscombe Corner - stone rows - Long Barrow - Ball Gate - Three Barrows - Sharp Tor - Piles Gate - well-preserved cist - plus other views, on a beautiful day

2007-10-29 - Scout Hut car park - track towards Eylebarrow - Plym Steps - previously unseen "Cist-8" and Cists-11 & 12 - Plym Steps blowing house - double mortar stone - ponies - other ruins. This walk was planned to see cists that were not seen on a previous walk.

2007-10-19 - Holne Moor - Venford Reservoir - dry Wheal Emma / Holne Moor leat footbridge - triple stone row (which is hard to see) - Horn's Cross - Combestone Tor - Holne Moor leat - hut circles and a reave - Luckey Tor - PUDC / RD H reservoir boundary stones - Venford Dam.

2007-10-4 - Burrator - Middleworth Farm - Combeshead Farm - Cuckoo Rock - bridleway - blowing house - mould stone - sought-for adit - cist

2007-9-27 - Whiteworks-2 - Nun's Cross - tin ruin - Devonport Leat - boundary stones

2007-9-18 Whiteworks - Nun's Cross - Nun's Cross Farm - Nun's Cross or Plym Ford - Great Gnats Head - Cist-1 (possibly miss-marked on the map or possibly with a second cist close-by that is not on the map) - Calveslake Tor - Cist-2 - Cist-3 - Cist-4 (Grim's Grave) - Cists 5, 6, 7, (8), 9 & 10 (all situated in or along the Langcombe Brook that runs down to Plym Steps) - Plym Steps - Lower Hartor Tor - Higher Hartor Tor - Eylesbarrow Tin mine - back to Whiteworks. Not all the non-cist features were photographed and they will be covered in another walk. The cist locations can be seen on the map at the bottom of the page, and GPS positions 'fixed' on the day are given for each one.

2007-9-4 - Dartmoor Inn, Lydford, River Lyd, stepping stones, ford, footbridge, Doe Tor, Doetor Brook, Bray Tor, Widgery Cross, tin works with buddles, wheel pit, leat etc, Hare Tor, Sharp Tor, Great Links Tor, Arms Tor, Daisy-May (one of the Dartmoor's climbing cows)

2007-7-24 - Postbridge, clapper bridge, Lydgate House, East Dart valley, farm land, by Pizwell, Dury Farm, 2nd clapper bridge, Bellever, through the forest, Bellever Tor, Lych Way, cairn and cist (well preserved), stone row (short), Kraps Ring settlement

2007-7-4 Princetown - From Princetown car park, North Hessary Tor, Roundlestone Tor, Hollow Tor, old enclosures, Tyrwhitt's tramway, Yellowmeade farm, Foggintor Quarry, panorama view of many tors, "Dartmoor Edelweiss"(?), boundary stones, hut circle

2007-6-27 Merrivale - From "Dartmoor Inn" - Grimstone & Sortridge leat - Vixen Tor  - Heckwood Tor - Pew Tor - Sampford Spiney - Ward Bridge (River Walkham) - former Plymouth/Princetown railway - Swelltor Quarry - old London Bridge corbels - Merrivale stone rows.

2007-5-2 Haytor & Saddle Tor

2007-4-18 - From Dunnabridge Pound at SX 64610 74628 via Outer Huccaby Ring, Huccaby Tor, (Huccaby Ring), Huccaby Cottage, Huccaby Farm, Hexworthy Bridge, Forest Inn, Gobbet tin Mine cutting(?), stepping stones (2 sets) and back to Dunnabridge Pound

2007-4-12 - From Shipley Bridge car park to the Avon Dam and back, using a tarmaced track all the way

2007-3-14 Scout Hut (Nattor) car park to Ditsworthy Settlement, stone rows, River Plym, Shavercombe Falls, Hen Tor, Legis Tor, a leat, River Plym again (wider this time!), Gutter Tor, cairn & cist, and back to the car park

2007-3-5 New Waste gate up to the Yealm Steps Waterfall and back. It was curtailed due to the onset of rain!

2007-2-26 from Shaugh Bridge, views of Dewerstone Rocks, West Down wood, North Wood, pipe track, wooden bridge and stile, ladder stile, Cadover Bridge, restored cross, Wigford Down, cairn & cist, Dewerstone tor, cable brake drum house, 19C inclined tramway, Shaugh Bridge

2007-2-21 - Hobajons Cross, Spurrell's Cross, Ugborough Beacon, Butterdon Hill, Black Pool, boundary stones, Western Beacon

2007-2-20 - Sharpitor, LeatherTor, Sheeps Tor, Burrator

A walk with Matthew to Crazy Well Pool (28 Dec 2004)

Please come back later!

When I've done some more walks with the camera .....................