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Previous walks
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, quarry interface between Devonian rocks (370 million years old) and Dartmoor granite (280 million years old), gorse flowers.
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).
2010-2-10. 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.
2009-1-4. Pixies Cave or Piskie's Cave.
2010-1-2. Raddick Lane, Crazy Well Pool, restored cross, feather-and-tare remains.
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).
2009-10-28. Okehampton Station, railway viaduct, wiers, 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.
2009-9-2. 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.
2009-8-6. East Dart waterfall. The best views are from the north bank although we thought the easiest route was to the south bank. The waterfall can be crossed at its top, providing there has not been heavy rain. A rope might be advisable as a safety precaution.
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.
2009-7-9. Bellever Forest, timber, Bellever tor, trig point, dry stone walls, Laughter Tor, cairn & cist (x2), cist, marker stone of forgotten significance, clapper bridge. This walk completed a quest to see the cists located to the south/south-west of the forest that was cut short on 18 Sept. 2008.
2009-7-2. Jay's Grave and Bowerman's Nose, on a misty day .....
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 Sue 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.
2009-5-27. 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.
2009-4-2. A misty morning became a blue sky day and a walk to the highest point in southern England: Rowtor, West Mill Tor, military field gun emplacements, ponies, Yes Tor, High Willhays (High Willies, locally), cairn, Big Bang - demolition of unexploded ordnance found during military clean-up operations!
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.
2009-3-4. Yennadon / Lowery Cross, approaching hail shower, poetry plaque, Walkhampton church, stone row, frog spawn, Brent Tor, pixies matchsticks (British Soldier Lichen or Cladonia cristatella), Great Mis Tor, Burrator Reservoir, Sheeps Tor, sett makers' bankers, Devonport leat, tree-felling.
2009-2-18. Dartmeet, Badgers Holt, Brimpts Farm, Yar Tor Down, spring, large hut circle - The Monument, re-erected doorway stones now fallen again, Vag Hill rabbit warren with pillow mounds, Combestone Tor, Vag Hill Pit, Warren House, confluence of the East & West Dart rivers at Dartmeet - the Double Dart, ancient clapper bridge at Dartmeet.
2009-1-14. Great Mis Tor, Little Mis Tor.
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.
2008-10-14. DPA Fungus Foray at Yarner Wood/Trendlebeer Down
2008-10-9. Nun's Cross area to Eylesbarrow tick walk.
2008-7-18 Whiteworks solitary cist and tin mine ruins, on a wet day.
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.
2008-5-29 - 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".
2008-5-8. 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
2008-2-11 - 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.
2007-11-15 - 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.
2007-9-27 - 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)
2007-2-26 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
2007-2-20 - 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 .....................
