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Old maps: https://maps.nls.uk/view/106005428 25-inch OS Single sheet, Rifle Range
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
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KML LINESTRINGS3.
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Saved GPX files (Option to save to My Places)
Go to Google > Google My Maps .....
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2. Set Base Map > Satellite > Add a layer? - not necessary > Rename layer to map
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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
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and see points etc.
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
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http://maps.nls.uk/os/ e.g.
Ordnance Survey, Six-inch, 1st edition - 1843-1882
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ORDNANCE SURVEY ABBREVIATIONS -
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/resources/maps-and-geographic-resources/map-abbreviations.html#l
Natl. Library of Scotland ABBREVIATIONS -
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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
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Tithe Map numbers are PLOT numbers as used in the Tithe Apportionments
List of Tithe Map dates
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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 -
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DNPA PLANNING REGISTER -
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Dartefacts - Username
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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
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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.
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| Wind chill = "Feels like"
temperature:
https://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-Wind-Chill If using �C and km/h: Wind chill temperature = 13.12 + 0.6215T - 11.37V0.16 + 0.3965TV0.16 Online converter: http://www.mountainsafety.co.uk/Weather-Wind-Chill-aspx mph x �C - good table Online converter: https://goodcalculators.com/wind-chill-calculator/ - includes frostbite times *** |
Corn ditches originate from the time when Dartmoor was a
royal hunting area and there was a need to keep the King�s deer out of the
cultivated land. A stone revetted wall and external ditch faced onto the open
moor which deterred deer and other animals from jumping over, whilst the sloping
grassy bank on the inner face allowed those animals which had entered to exit
again without difficulty. Source:
http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/au_crosspr10
"Kistvaen - A stone coffin, from from the Celtic cist, a chest, and maen, stone, v being used as a mutation of m. (Source: Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, 2nd edition 1912, reprinted 1990, page 22)."
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 *****
HART TOR
| Name | Location |
|---|---|
| The Old Police Station, Princetown A building is shown in this location on the 1880s-1890s Ordnance Survey map. Now a caf�. | Dartmoor Forest |
| Princetown Fire Station Small, modern, purpose-built fire station in Station Road. | Dartmoor Forest |
| Old Fire Station in Princetown Building in Duchy Yard, Station Road which is recorded as an old fire station. The building was demolished by 2013. | Dartmoor Forest |
| The former Railway Inn, Princetown One of the first group of early 19th century buildings to form the village and typical of the changes which occur in a settlement. Extended in the later 19th century. Changed it's name in the mid-1950s to The Devil's Elbow although later in the 20th century it reverted back to The Railway Inn and functioned as a pub until at least 2009. Now a dwelling. | Dartmoor Forest |
| The Prince of Wales, Princetown Depicted on the late 19th century historic maps, the Prince of Wales hotel is thought to have been established around 1845. Still continues as the Prince of Wales inn to present day. | Dartmoor Forest |
| Electricity Generating Station, Station Cottages Road, Princetown Station building was designed in 1923 by Richardson & Gill, the Duchy architects and built in 1924. It was used until 1947, when Princetown was connected to the National Grid. Has been used as a Masonic Hall and is now home to a business producing navel memorabilia. Considered for listing in 2017 but rejected at initial assessment stage | Dartmoor Forest |
| Princetown pocket power station, Station Road This important historical structure was commissioned on 11 December 1959. The output was 3.0 megawatts. It was the site of the world's first unmanned power station. Was still occassionally used up to 2011. The Princetown engine is now installed in the Internal Fire Museum of Power near Cardigan Bay in Wales. Considered for listing in 2017 but rejected at initial assessment stage. | Dartmoor Forest |
| Station building at Princetown GONE *** | Dartmoor Forest |
| Signal box at Princetown Railway Station No longer extant, the signal box at the western end of the station site was constructed in the late 19th century. Depicted on the historic maps, it appears to have been demolished with the other station structures after the closure of the line in the mid-1950s. A modern structure has been built partially over the site of the signal box. | Dartmoor Forest |
| Goods Shed at Princetown Railway Station GONE *** | Dartmoor Forest |
| Engine Shed at Princetown Railway Station GONE *** | Dartmoor Forest |
| Carriage Shed at Princetown Railway Station GONE *** | Dartmoor Forest |
| Railway stables at Princetown Dates to the early 20th century, this building is not shown on the late 19th /early 20th century historic maps but was constructed by 1926. Only surviving structure at the old railway station. | Dartmoor Forest |
| 1-8 Station Road Cottages, Princetown Two sets of terraced houses were built at Princetown for branch line staff at Princetown; the first (Nos 6-8) around 1905 and a later group added in the 1920s (Nos. 1-4). They site either side of the Stationmaster's House and just to the north of the site of the platform / passenger station building (now demolished) | Dartmoor Forest |
|
Stationmaster's House, Princetown
The Stationmaster's House at Princetown lies just to the north
of the site of the platform / passenger station building (now
demolished). Unclear whether it was built at the end of the 19th
century, or the beginning of the 20th century The Great Western Railway built houses for some of its branch line staff at Princetown in 1905, adding more in the 1920s. The houses were terraced and were to the north of the station site, at the end of a private road leading to the station from the centre of Princetown. |
Dartmoor Forest |
| Tinners' building above Devil's Elbow A small building with stone walls, measures 2.0 by 1.5 metres internally. Located at the north-western end of a 3.0 metre wide terrace which extends around 7.0 metres from the building to the south-east. In an area of extensive tinworks, it probably dates to around 1800 or earlier. | Walkhampton |
| Stone north-east of South Hessary Tor Boundary stone on Walkhampton Common; one of a group marking a straight line between North and South Hessary Tors. Also lies on the line of the Walkhampton / Dartmoor Forest Parish boundary. | Dartmoor Forest; Walkhampton |
| Boundary stone on Walkhampton Common Boundary stone on Walkhampton Common; one of a group marking a straight line between North and South Hessary Tors. Also lies on the line of the Walkhampton / Dartmoor Forest Parish boundary. | Dartmoor Forest; Walkhampton |
| Bank Boundary stone on Walkhampton Common; one of a group marking a straight line between North and South Hessary Tors. Also lies on the line of the Walkhampton / Dartmoor Forest Parish boundary. | Walkhampton |
| The Plume of Feathers, Princetown Thought to be the oldest building in Princetown, the inn was likely built shortly after Thomas Tyrwhitt started construction of Tor Royal in 1785 and has been in use as a public house ever since. Stone rubble wall construction, slate hung and colour washed at the front. Slate roof, hipped at either end of central block, gabled to front of wings. Listed. | Dartmoor Forest |
| MDV4919 ut circle V in settlement north of Hart Tor 36 stone hut circles and an irregular aggregate field system forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 450m north of Hart Tor. |
|
Hart Tor Rifle Range
Rifle Range surviving as a line of low granite posts about 600mm
high beside a footpath leading to Hart Tor. Each is marked with
its distance (in yards) from the target. It is suggested that it
was constructed for use by guards at the nearby Dartmoor Prison. Rifle Range established in the 19th century comprising seven granite posts incised with their distance from the target. The range is traditionally said to have been used by army warders before civilian guards took over at Dartmoor prison. Jones states that it must be an army range as it is at least 600 yards long, whereas prison warders would only have had to train to about 300 yards. |
Walkhampton |
| Hart Tor Rifle Range Target Remains of target comprising a heap of stone and earth with some large slabs forming the edge facing the firing line. Behind is a rectangular stone-lined pit, now filled with rubble, which would have served as a shelter for those placing targets on top of the heap. | Walkhampton |
|
Hart Tor Rifle Range Second Target
Substantial flat-bottomed scoop, 7 metres by 5 metres by 1.6
metres deep. This may represent a second target and it is
interesting to note that the line of distance marker stones lead
directly to this hollow rather than the nearby target. Gerrard, S., 1998, Hart Tor Prehistoric Settlement (Article in Serial). SDV254969. Immediately south-south-east of an upright stone standing 2.4 metres from the target pit, which is thought to have formed part of a communications system, is a substantial flat-bottomed scoop, 7 metres by 5 metres by 1.6 metres deep. This may represent a second target and it is interesting to note that the line of distance marker stones lead directly to this hollow rather than the nearby target. |
Walkhampton |
| Milestone in the Parish of Walkhampton Milestone on the north side of the road by a small pull in at 'devil's bridge' erected c1812 & inscribed plymouth 14 miles & prince town 1. A survey in 2003 found the 56cms high small stone in good condition. The stretch of road from yelverton to princetown & from princetown to moretonhampstead known as the 'trans dartmoor route' was built & maintained jointly by the tavistock & moretonhampstead trusts in 1772. The boundary of the trust seems to be close to the 'warren house inn' (jenkinson). | Walkhampton |
| Jubilee lamp standard, Princetown Lamp standard. Dated 1887. Large granite plinth with shields in panels. Pink granite octagonal shaft with base. Surmounted by cast iron lamp standard with ladder bars. 4 pink granite moulded bollards at the base of each corner | Dartmoor Forest |
"PLYMOUTH 14 MILES / PRINCE TOWN 1 B3212 Dartmoor & Roborough Turnpike Road 1812, 7 miles, Dartmoor Tombstone designmarkers. This was the Dartmoor & Roborough Turnpike Trust, 1812 (starting from Princetown). There is another such marker on the hill below Sharpitor and before the car parks, marked "PLYMOUTH 12 MILES / PRINCE TOWN 3". And a third one just left of the entrance to the lane to Peekhill Farm, Dousland, marked PLYMOUTH 11 MILES / PRINCE TOWN 4.
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https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=3388498&resourceID=1972 Milestone, Devil's Bridge, by small pull-in Milestone, Devil's Bridge, by small pull-in, B3212, N side, on grass verge. Carved stone post, Dartmoor granite tombstone design, erected by Dartmoor & Roborough turnpike trust, 19th century. Inscription reads: // PLYMOUTH / 14 MILES / PRINCE / TOWN / 1 // |
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B3212 |
Princetown to
Yelverton |
Prince Town |
SX |
590 |
734 |
DVWD |
DARTMOOR FOREST |
Princetown, jct of
Plymouth Road road to Prison |
was the Roundhouse |
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; ; Turnpike Trust
Returns 1824; |
Dartmoor and
Roborough |
Jenkinson T. & Taylor
P. (2009), "The Toll-houses of South Devon", p98; 1871 census |
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B3357 |
Princetown to
Tavistock |
Ruddlestone |
SX |
576 |
749 |
DVWD |
DARTMOOR FOREST |
Ruddlestone jct |
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Returns 1824; |
Dartmoor and
Roborough |
Jenkinson T. & Taylor
P. (2009), "The Toll-houses of South Devon", p98 |
In the Milestone Society Database, 4 milestones are identified on the B3212- all in a design known as Dartmoor Tombstone. Based on Trust mileage, would expect 7.
The milestones here are similar to others, on the
roads of the Tavistock Trust on
HEMERY
Jobber's Road (Tavistock Branch from Plym Steps) - main road was from Sheepstor to Buckfastleigh, carrying wool from Tavistock and the north - along which the later TA Trackran (TA stones, post-Medieval, around 1669)). Medieval packhorse track.
Eric Hemery (1986), Walking Dartmoor's Ancient Tracks, Robert Hale, London. Track 3, Jobber's Road or Cawse, pp. 60-73, and Track 4, Jobber's Road (Tavistock Branch) Tavistock-Plym Steps, pp. 74-78. 60
Mike Brown 58/72
'Plymouth 14 Miles Prince Town 1� milestone, in layby near Devil�s Bridge. There used to be a small farm at this spot, a relatively short-lived and probably largely unsuccessful smallholding established in the late nineteenth century, and about which very little is known. Little remains to be seen of it today � although some ruined field walls and a small building remain on the higher side of the bend (q.v. grid square 5873) � and most of the abandoned buildings which might have still been standing at the time were probably finally demolished when the road was realigned in 1960.
There used to also be a small mining venture here, about which
records are as equally scant as for the farm. The only reference to it
which I have ever come across is an entry in the Walkhampton vestry
minutes when, on 21st September 1876, the parishioners resolved to
�summons the Manager of the Devils Bridge Mine for the sum of �2 5s 10d
the amount due for rates from the Company�. The valley bottom both above
and below the road embankment is heavily streamed � as might well be
expected along almost any Dartmoor valley � but it is interesting to
also note that there are faint vestiges of structures possibly
associated with later periods of mining activity in the marshy valley
floor above the road. The most distinctive of these is a low banked
enclosure which has two or three small rectangular pits within, which is
situated next to a circular pond which might perhaps represent a capped
shaft.
Dartefacts
SX 58088 72879 .....
The Devils Elbow Water Tunnel, SouthThe Devils
Elbow Water Tunnel, South
SX 58053 72884 .....
Milestone B3212 No.01 �PLYMOUTH / 14 MILES / PRINCE / TOWN / 1� (336 m)
Steve Grigg, Facebook
25-inch zoomable map OS .....
600 yds - SX 58124 72665
550 yds - SX 58127 72619 plus hut at SX 58117 7262
hut at SX 58137 72599
500 yds - SX 58130 725743
hut at SX 58133 72513
hut at SX 58135 72484
400 yds - SX 56135 72480
300 yds - SX 58141 72391
250 yds - SX 58144 72345
200 yds - SX 58147 72297
150 yds - SX 58150 72253
Target - SX 58150 72127
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
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).
©Jeremy Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, 1993, Vol. IV, fig. 53.9, p. 30.
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.
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