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2024-03-29T00:26:16+00:00text/html2007-03-20T03:15:21+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7208Brett Sutherland50.953213 -2.333794ST7617 : King's Mill, Nr. Marnhull
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A fine early C19th mill on the river Stour south of Marnhull.text/html2007-03-20T03:06:22+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7208Brett Sutherland50.962153 -2.380278ST7318 : Village Pump, North Stalbridge
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A rather forlorn pump on the side of the road in this pretty village.text/html2007-03-20T02:57:29+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7208Brett Sutherland50.956504 -2.375391ST7317 : South Pump, Stalbridge
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The southern of the two pumps on the village green. This one appears to be more for the benefit of horses.text/html2007-03-20T02:51:13+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7208Brett Sutherland50.957131 -2.376108ST7317 : North Pump, Stalbridge
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One of two pumps situated on the north side of the village green. Mid-late C19?text/html2006-09-21T22:12:06+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7208Brett Sutherland50.522278 -3.959400SX6171 : Ruined Building, Whiteworks Tin Mine
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One of the many ruined dwellings and shelters to be found amongst the remains of a once busy Tin Mine. Whiteworks was a 'modern' mine, operating in the 19th century, with most of the ore mined underground via the deep shafts that litter the site.text/html2006-09-21T21:53:07+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7208Brett Sutherland50.557621 -4.048401SX5575 : Disused Bridge at Merrivale, Dartmoor
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The turnpike bridge over the River Walkham at Merrivale. This bridge is now disused, having been superseded by the road bridge built in the 1950's with stone from nearby Merrivale Quarry. The bridge is often visited by patrons of the Dartmoor Inn, 50 yards behind us.text/html2006-09-20T00:57:11+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7208Brett Sutherland50.515653 -3.978874SX5970 : Deep scars on Dartmoor
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The deep scarring left by Tin Miners hundreds of years ago. Known as 'Gerts' or 'Guts', there are many of these across the whole of the moor and were caused either by digging into the soil and rock with picks and shovels to extract the Tin ore in an 'open cast' manner or by diverting water in the form of 'leats' to wash the ore out from the surrounding gravels.text/html2006-09-17T02:26:22+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7208Brett Sutherland50.514610 -3.987294SX5970 : Newleycombe Cross
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This Monastic Way marker was repaired and re-erected in 1915 by the Reverend H. Hugh Breton (who also repaired near-by Crazy Well Cross). You can see where the original head has been attached to the new shaft near the top. There is a further repair at the base of the shaft carried out in 1989.text/html2006-09-17T02:14:48+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7208Brett Sutherland50.515291 -4.000018SX5870 : Crazywell Cross
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This Cross, repaired and re-erected by a clergyman in 1915, is a well preserved marker for the Buckfast to Buckland Monastic Way. It stands a dozen or so yards east of Crazywell Pool.text/html2006-09-05T01:58:47+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7208Brett Sutherland50.512177 -3.971676SX6069 : Tinners Hut at Nun's Cross workings
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The remains of a "Tinners Hut" at streamworks near Nun's Cross farm. There are plentiful remains of spoil heaps and gullies associated with the mining of Tin ore at this site just west of the farmstead. The hut remains in relatively good condition, having been adapted as a leat cutter's shelter and then as an outbuilding for the farm.text/html2006-09-05T01:47:19+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7208Brett Sutherland50.526780 -4.011791SX5771 : Black Tor Blowing House
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The remains of a Blowing House on the East bank of the River Meavy. Situated just below Black Tor, this building was used to smelt tin from its ore. It probably dates from the 13th century and would have had a water wheel powering a set of bellows. The bellows provided a draught to heat a furnace packed with charcoal and crushed cassiterite (tin oxide) which was dug up from the surrounding valley. This example is unique in that it has the door lintel still in situ.text/html2006-08-26T02:25:35+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7208Brett Sutherland50.559294 -4.055533SX5475 : Rotting Crane, Merrivale Quarry
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This former 35 ton Derrick Crane, built by Butters Cranes Ltd. of Glasgow in 1972, was used to shift the quarried stone. The quarry closed in December 1997 and much of the cutting machinery remained in the decaying sheds in this picture until contractors removed all the scrap metal, including the crane in late 2007. The deep flooded pit and huge spoil tip dominate the landscape here now.text/html2006-08-26T02:05:16+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7208Brett Sutherland50.540719 -4.037789SX5573 : Rotting railway sleepers, Swelltor branch line
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Rotting sleepers on the Swelltor branch line. The line ran off the Princetown railway to serve Swelltor Quarry. These are some of the last "non-granite" remains of the trackway. If you look closely, you can see some of the bolts that secured the fishplates. The track was lifted in 1957 after 73 years of servicetext/html2006-08-26T01:49:39+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7208Brett Sutherland50.539869 -4.034930SX5573 : Ruin of the Blacksmith's Shop, Swelltor Quarry
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This is the best preserved building on the site of a once very busy Quarry.text/html2006-08-26T01:32:19+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/7208Brett Sutherland50.546037 -4.042253SX5573 : Disused Princetown Railway Bridge, King's Tor
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A sturdy bridge carrying the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway as it approached Little King Tor. A couple of Dartmoor ponies are taking shelter from the wind in its archway. The line, which opened in 1823, was constructed as a tramroad to carry stone from Foggintor Quarry off the moor. It was later adapted in 1882 as the GWR branch line from Yelverton to Princetown. The line finally closed in March 1956 due to dwindling use (prior to the Beeching cuts), and the track removed a year later.