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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
LIDAR

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).
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Google Earth - "Image from Google Earth (c) 2016."

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 - 11.37V^0.16 + 0.3965TV^0.16
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 ***

M BROWN

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A stone inscribed �P� stands beside the wall at Lawns Corner. Presumably referring to Peter Tavy parish it does not, however, actually stand on either the present or any historical boundary. Discovered in relatively recent times built into the nearby wall, it may in fact be some distance removed from its original site.

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This area on the west flank of Roos Tor is known as Roos Tor Pits.

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The spot known as Stephen�s Grave is a small pillar mounted on triangular slab bearing the letter �S�, marking the grave of John Stephens who committed suicide by poisoning himself in 1762.

A contemporary (but unfortunately incomplete) written account of the background to the incident was reproduced by Revd Baring-Gould in an article in TDA 1901, of which the following are the essential particulars �

John Stephens lived with Mr Roger Chubb at the Farm of Godsworthy...A Man of...Good Character as A Farmer�s Servant He had formed some intimacy with one Mary Bray...the duaghter of Andrew and Mary Bray who was farmers ar Whedlake & when the ware brought acquanted with the said Courtship the became all to geather agenst it...worked such influence on the Daughter as to very nearly to break off all intercourse between them which proved fatel to the said John Stephens it appeared to have taken such a great impression on him so much that he was heard to say about A Week beore it took place that he should be down in Peter Tavy Churchyard before that Day Week and seem Quite lowe in Spirits as well as in maners in the same Week it happened to have been Michaelmas Fair at Tavistock...the said Mary Bray was...seen Walking with Another young man which andautetelly in Creased his Jeluesly and Praumpt him to Commit so rash A act...he whent to a Drugesters Shop and Purchest some Paisenas..it was sopposed that he twok some of it before he came out of Town as it was proved at the Inquest he went to Mr Caunday�s house...and thare he was taken very onwell urgin and vomiting but it pas A way hafter some time...left the house...got in the Company of the said Mr & Mrs and Mary Bray and Came home with them as far as Redge...went on to geather as far as Yellan Corner where the Parted Companys...John Stephens for Godsworthey whare he arrived about Ten O�clock at Night...taken very hill urgen and vomiting at A furious Sight which throwed all the People of the house in A great confusion...Mr Chubb Rode hafter the Doctor but before the Doctor came he was dead as soon as he had seen the Bodey he perceived that he had been Paisened as it bard every mark of it swelling and descollaring...Next morning the smill was so bad the carried him oup in A corner of A field and put him in A hole...ware he remeined before he was buried an Inquest was held...the Jury returned A verdict that the Bodey should be buried at the first four Cross ways and he was fourth with buried near Broadamore Corner...reported...that hafter he was buried that he was seen at Godsworthey and at Whedlake...the People of each farm howse was freckenley alarmed by an yawsel noises and ratling of the things of the howse...the said Mary Bray...was never Married...she lived till the 3rd May 1816 when she dropt of her Chair...and Instantly expired in the 72 year of her age...

BUTLER Vol 2 The North - Map 31

7 - Roos Tor North West fig. 31.3

Many cairns

Twist - My wife�s GG Grandparents William & Grace Maddock lived there between the1860s and the 1880s.

READ HEMERY

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 *****

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

Walk details

MAP: Red = GPS satellite track of the walk.

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