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Dartmoor Looking up to Cox Tor on Dartmoor. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon PowerShot SX70 HS |
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Dartmoor A view towards Yes Tor and High Willhays, the highest point on Dartmoor, This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Dartmoor Looking towards Sourton Tors, on the way to Tigers Marsh, Dartmoor This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Dartmoor A Bridge over the River Lyd, on the way up to Tigers Marsh, Dartmoor, This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Dartmoor A Dartmoor pony and Foal, on the slopes of Sourton Tors, Dartmoor This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Dartmoor The lower section of River Lyd, Dartmoor This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Dartmoor A view across Dartmoor, on the way to Tigers Marsh, Dartmoor This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 1 person has added this picture to their favourites |
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Dartmoor Dartmoor Ponies, on our way to Tigers marsh, Dartmoor This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Dartmoor More info about Cowflop Bottom At grid reference SX 614 814 are some old tinners workings in a small gully known as 'Cowflop Bottom' of which Hemery notes the following, "The northern sector of the head basin (Broada Marsh Stream) is adorned by cowflops (foxgloves) and is consequently known as 'Cowflop Bottom'". Other Dartmoor names for the foxglove are: Long Purples, Pixie Gloves, Pop-dock, and Purples. It is thought that the name foxglove came from a corruption of 'folk's glove' which refers to the little folk or piskies, hence also 'Pixie Gloves'. Another tradition suggests that foxglove refers to the piskies tying the flowers over the foxes paws in order that they could tread silently when raiding the chicken coops. I have once heard the story that if ever you hear the flowers or 'bells' ringing then it is an omen of your impending death. I copied this info from Google. We have seen a few Foxgloves over the years there, This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ20 |
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Yes tor Looking over to Yes tor on Dartmoor from Sourton Tors we used to walk all over there, This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Tigers Marsh Bern going to the rescue of the sheep in Tigers Marsh, Dartmoor. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Sourton Down Sourton Down , Dartmoor, the two stones were suppose to be markers for the Kings way , which goes over to Lydford, Dartmoor This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Dartmoor Gren tor with Great Links in the Background, Dartmoor we used to think nothing of walking over there, different story now though This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Tigers Marsh Bern trying to save this poor sheep, Tigers Marsh, Dartmoor This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Tigers Marsh Bern trying to save a sheep that had gone into Tigers Marsh, Dartmoor, but afraid the poor sheep struggled to much so Bern had to let go or he would have gone in the swamp head first, This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Tigers Marsh Our yearly trek on May 27th to place these flags on a crash site, it was through this Site POE, that the some of the family members of the plane crash saw my pic in 2005, so got in touch with me and remain in touch today, But we think this is probably the last year for us old crocs to do it.Tigers Marsh Dartmoor This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ72 |
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Dartmoor Taken a few years ago Dartmoor The Devonport Leat was a leat constructed in the 1790s to carry fresh drinking water from the high ground of Dartmoor to the expanding dockyards at Devonport, Devon, England. It is fed by three Dartmoor rivers: the West Dart, the Cowsic and the Blackabrook. It was originally designed to carry water all the way to Devonport Dockyard, but has since been shortened and the operational part of the leat now stops near the Burrator dam. The water goes via underground pipes to the water treatment works at Dousland with the excess going into the Burrator Reservoir which provides most of the water supply of Plymouth. For part of the route to Dousland the pipes utilise the route of the old Plymouth Leat and the route of the disused Yelverton to Princetown Railway. Prior to the installation of the piped supply to Dousland the water was used for a hydro electric turbine located near Yelverton Reservoir and fed by a 12-inch-diameter (300 mm) pipe. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ20 |
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Dartmoor Taken a few years ago The Devonport leat down over Raddick Hill, Dartmoor This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ20 |
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Dartmoor Taken a few years ago, Fur tor, Dartmoor also known as the Queen of the Moors Bern &John up the top. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ20 1 person has added this picture to their favourites |
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Dartmoor Taken a few years ago, Fur Tor Dartmoor, also known as the Queen of the Moor, Bern nearly up the top. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-FZ20 |
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