Category: Mills

  • Metheral Hill Contour Leat

    Metheral Hill Contour Leat

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    Murray Oates
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    Discovered by myself but jointly investigated with Stephen Holley in late 2024. The leat comes off the Small Brook and would have flowed east to west following the contour for about 770 m. It’s about 1.2 m (4 feet) wide and in places (guessing) the leat bank is 1.2 m wide and about 0.5 m…

  • A Napoleonic Venture in the Newleycombe Valley

    A Napoleonic Venture in the Newleycombe Valley

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    Tom Greeves
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    The Newleycombe Valley, extending more or less west-east from Burrator Reservoir to the Devonport Leat tunnel below Nuns Cross, has some of the most extensive and ancient evidence of tinworking to be found on Dartmoor. At its upper end there is a confluence of two streams, one descending from the north-east from Older Bridge and…