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  • Haytor and Bagtor Walk

    Haytor and Bagtor Walk

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    David Eeles
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    Leaders S. Holley and D. Eeles (helped by P. Watson) These mines are among the most interesting on the moor, featuring as they do the largest dam, longest tramway and largest waterwheel on the moor as well as puzzling features which, unusually, we were able to go some way to demystifying. After parking cars at…

  • 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…