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Reconnaissance walks:

Google Satellite map + GPS track of the walk

1. Save track as a GPX file on Memory Map
2. You can use Google Earth to convert a GPX file to KML
- import from GPS unit using Google Earth Tools > GPS > Import
- or drag GPX from Saved GPX Files or from Desktop
- OR FILE OPEN Saved GPX Files
Options - create KML Tracks + Adjust altitudes to ground heights - DO NOT CREATE KML LINESTRINGS3.
3. Get the BLUE track on Google Earth - right-click and Save Place As KML (NOT AS KMZ) to Saved GPX files (Option to save to My Places)

Go to Google > Google My Maps .....
> https://www.google.com/maps/d/?pli=1
1. Create a new map
2. Set Base Map > Satellite > Add a layer? - not necessary > Rename layer to map title > Import - GIVES THE ACTIVE IMPORT WINDOW !!!
3. Import using File-Open OR drag file from Desktop
4. Add place marks as appropriate
5. Click on Share > change to Public - anyone can view but NOT edit
6. Copy the LINK TO SHARE > "Google Satellite map + GPS track of the walk" on the web page.
7. Can REMOVE "SPIKES" at this stage, click on to make "thick" and see points etc.

try zooming in with the mouse thumbwheel and "dragging" the map to see points of interest
click on the place-markers to read their label - they are most accurate at the highest zoom level
try "mousing" over the list of placemarks on the left of the screen, highlights their place on the map
use browser back arrow or Alt key and left-arrow cursor key together to return to normal web page.

Convert Google Earth KMZ / KML to GPX Online for Memory Map use

Convert Google Earth KMZ / KML routes to GPX Online for Memory Map use

Old OS maps - http://maps.nls.uk/os/ e.g. Ordnance Survey, Six-inch, 1st edition - 1843-1882 ??????????
ORDNANCE SURVEY ABBREVIATIONS - https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/resources/maps-and-geographic-resources/map-abbreviations.html#l
Natl. Library of Scotland ABBREVIATIONS - https://maps.nls.uk/os/abbrev/
More map abbreviations - https://rosdev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/79RM/pages/76155645/P15.5+Abbreviations+used+on+Ordnance+Survey+Maps
Old OS maps - Upper numbers: FIELD numbers in surveyor's notebook; lower numbers acreages to three decimal places.
BGS Coordinate converter - BNG >< Eastings & Northings
TITHE MAP - Tithe Map numbers are PLOT numbers as used in the Tithe Apportionments
List of Tithe Map dates
PASTSCAPE - no copyright permission
HERITAGE GATEWAY
SAMPLE: Devon & Dartmoor HER - MDV103325 - Burrator Reservoir - a good short history of the reservoir
HISTORIC ENGLAND - SEARCH
DCMS - Dept. for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport - search for military and more?
DARTMOOR WALKS RESOURCE - HER (Historic Environment Records) and NMR (National Monument records)
Archaeology Data Service - useful?
DNPA PLANNING REGISTER - http://www.dartmoor.gov.uk/planning/planning-application-search - Enter a property and click "View Map"
HUNDREDS OF DEVON
Dartefacts - Username - KeithRyan - Westbourne@123#
MINING
MINES DATABASE
Graces Guide - 1856 Mines in Devon & Cornwall
Aditnow.co.uk
Geology - Sandatlas.org
Domesday Book - where Doomsday meant the final authority re. taxation purposes
Grace's Guide to British Industrial History
Domesday Book
Forgotten Relics of an Enterprising Age
Plymouth Data web site - ARCHIVED, Old Plymouth, Old Devonport, Old East Stonehouse
Archive.org - old books in PDF form and others
British Library Simple Search
British Library Advanced Search
ISBN and ISSN - Getting one for your own publications
Bible quotations
Slotted gate posts & Slip Gates,^[1] also known as Stang Stoops,^[1]^[2] Yatsteads ^[3] or Stang Pole Gateways^[4] are a form of simple gate that once commonly in Europe controlled access to fields, lanes, etc. using removable cross-bars and two fixed posts, often of stone. Slotted Slotted gate posts on Youtube

Further reading
BOOKS?

Permissions

HER. - "Information from the Devon & Dartmoor Historic Environment Record"-- USE THIS
Dartmoor Trust - ""Photograph used by kind permission of The Dartmoor Trust Archive" - (ref. Simon Butler. email 13 Feb. 2017).
Devon County Council - unless otherwise stated, apart from the Devon County Council Crest, copyright protected material may be reproduced free of charge in any format or media without requiring specific permission. This is subject to the material being reproduced accurately and not being used in a derogatory manner or in a misleading context. Where material is being published or issued to others, the source and copyright status must be acknowledged: http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/copyright.htm
Google Earth - "Image from Google Earth (c) 2016."

Start with car park slotted gateposts !!!

HER Results - Roundy Park

Heritage Gateway - Search

https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/advanced_search.aspx

Tavistock to Moretonhampstead road A road running across the moor between Tavistock and Moretonhampstead; a result of the Duke of Bedford's turnpike act of 1772. It was known as Carter's Road after the name of the contractor. Dartmoor Forest

Postbridge Road Bridge constructed in the late 18th century on the formation of the turnpike road between Tavistock and Moretonhampstead. Dartmoor Forest

Postbridge Clapper Bridge Dartmoor Forest

Drift lane from Postbridge to Rowtor Gate Ancient trackway leading to broadun must have been well used in prehistoric times, for it yielded a large number of flint objects, including two small broken arrowheads Dartmoor Forest

Cairn with cist on Chittaford Down Dartmoor Forest

Cairn with cist on north-western side of Roundy Park enclosure Dartmoor Forest

Roundy Park enclosure, 560 metres north-east of Archerton Dartmoor Forest

Smelting House at Postbridge Dartmoor Forest

Archerton Searchlight Dartmoor Forest

https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV20484&resourceID=104

MDV20484 Drift lane from Postbridge to Rowtor gate

Roundy Park kistvaen - unlike any other on Dartmoor in that one side is of two stones and the other is of three stones. Also, there are two capstones (Hemery, p.542).

Benchmarks: Types of bench mark - http://www.jochta.com/maps/types.htm

http://www.justusuk.com/2010/01/cut-marks-bolts-and-flush-brackets.html - bench marks, levels etc.

http://www.arc018.com/article/designing-the-angular-logo-part-1 - design of the top of trig. pillars

25 years since the last OS benchmark - blog post dated 1st May 2018

Surveying online slide show: https://www.slideshare.net/jswindel/land-based-surveysslideshare

Ordnance Survey blog - Bench mark or trig pillar: what's in a name?

Ordnance Survey blog - A History of the Trig Pillar - the BEST DIAGRAM *****

Plymouth Data
https://web.archive.org/web/20130821203233/http://www.plymouthdata.info/index.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20130705181132/http://www.plymouthdata.info/BurratorReservoir.htm

Snipe fly (Rhagio species - there are several)

Fox Moth caterpillar (common during July-October), up to 8 cm (3 inches) in length. It feeds on heather, bramble and bilberry. It will be fully grown by the autumn and will then hibernate, to emerge next spring to pupate without feeding, in March/April, and be on the wing in May. Click here for: a photo of an adult.

Cider mill: edge runner stone and basal pound stone

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AK Hamilton Jenkin (1974), Mines of Devon: Vol. 1: Mines of Devon: The Southern Area, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, page 113

Bray Mrs (Anna Eliza Bray or Mrs A. Eliza Bray) (1879), The Borders of the Tamar and Tavy, 2nd edn, Vols 1 & 2, Kent & Co, Paternoster Row, London. Vol & pp?
Books written as letters (each forms a chapter, 38 in total, in 2 vols) to Robert Southey, Lakes poet (1774-1843). Mrs Bray lived 1790-1883.
First published 1836, in 3 volumes, entitled: A description of the part of Devonshire bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy.
She compressed the work herself, leaving out material she considered of no value to the current reader. Much of the book is material from her husband, Mr. Bray's Journals - Reverend Edward Atkyns Bray (1778-1857).

Crispin Gill (1970), Dartmoor - A New Study, David & Charles, page 132.

Dave Brewer (2002), Dartmoor Boundary Markers, Halsgrove, p. 158.

J. Hayward (1991, reprinted 2009), Dartmoor 365, Curlew Publications, page 136.

Eric Hemery (1983), High Dartmoor, Robert Hale, London, page 126.

Kath Brewer (1997), The Railways, Quarries and Cottages of Foggintor, Orchard Publications, Chudleigh, Newton Abbot, map p. 81.

Helen Harris (1968, 1st edn), Industrial Archaeology of Dartmoor, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, page ??

Helen Harris (1986, 3rd edn), Industrial Archaeology of Dartmoor, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, page ??

Image � J Butler 1994. Reproduced by kind permission (ref. 29 Sept. 2012).

Butler 1993 Vol. IV, page 74 - format for any repeat reference

Jeremy Butler (1991), Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, Vol. 1 - The East, 10: Buckland Common and Pudsham Down, (fig. 10.1) pages 63-64.

Jeremy Butler (1991), Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, Vol. 2 - The North, 9: Hurston Ridge stone rows (figs.25.2,3), pages 30-31..

Jeremy Butler, 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Vol. 3 - The South-West, 3: Raddick Hill West enclosures and cairns (fig. 46.3), pages 55-56.

Jeremy Butler (1994), Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, Vol. 4 - The South-East, 2: Tristis Rock (fig. 54.1), pages 38-39..

Jeremy Butler (1997), Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Vol. 5 - The Second Millenium B.C.

Kath Brewer (1998), The Railways, Quarries and Cottages of Foggintor. Orchard Publications, Newton Abbot.

Ken Ringwood (2013), Dartmoor's Tors and Rocks. University of Plymouth Press, Plymouth.

Mike Brown (2001) Guide to Dartmoor, CD-ROM, Dartmoor Press, Grid Square 5358 7473.

Paul Rendell (2007), Exploring Around Burrator - A Dartmoor Reservoir, The Dartmoor Company, Okehampton, page 24.

R Hansford Worth (1967), Worth's Dartmoor, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, pages 397-402.

William Crossing (1912, reprinted 2001) Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, Peninsula Press, Newton Abbot, page ???

W. Keble Martin (1969 edn), The Concise British Flora in Colour. Edbury Press, Plate 2.

Dartmoor CAM movie. TIPS .....

once viewing, make movie viewer "Full Screen"
click the loop or "continuous play" icon (if there is one)
press F11 to make more "Full Screen", remembering to press it again to regain Normal Screen.

A movie of Meldon Reservoir well and truly overflowing after the recently announced official drought!

Click the photo to download

File size: 2 MB.
Length 18 secs

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Tavistock to Moretonhampstead road A road running across the moor between Tavistock and Moretonhampstead; a result of the Duke of Bedford's turnpike act of 1772. It was known as Carter's Road after the name of the contractor.	Dartmoor Forest
Postbridge Road Bridge constructed in the late 18th century on the formation of the turnpike road between Tavistock and Moretonhampstead.	Dartmoor Forest
Postbridge Clapper Bridge	Dartmoor Forest

Cairn with cist on Chittaford Down	Dartmoor Forest
Cairn with cist on north-western side of Roundy Park enclosure	Dartmoor Forest
Roundy Park enclosure, 560 metres north-east of Archerton	Dartmoor Forest