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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2010 9:45:15 GMT
At a guess... Near a mine? Somewhere in Devon? Well done, Leigh. There's already at least one grammar school clever b*****d on this site... (and, as like you, I don't use those "face-thingies" you'll appreciate that no offence is meant to any grammar school clever b*****ds who may be reading this). You're getting warm, of course, in your guesswork.... |
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Post by Budleigh on Jun 26, 2010 10:29:09 GMT
My dear wife was looking over my shoulder as I wrote that answer and informed me that sarcasm was one of my least endearing features!!
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Post by Dave on Jun 26, 2010 11:51:21 GMT
Knowing that you often walk around Kingsteighton I would have guessed somewhere close by, but I have never seen such a mine around those parts and so my guess is Hemerdon Mine, Nr. Plymouth.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2010 20:10:25 GMT
Knowing that you often walk around Kingsteighton I would have guessed somewhere close by, but I have never seen such a mine around those parts and so my guess is Hemerdon Mine, Nr. Plymouth. Spot on, that man! There's been talk in recent years about it re-opening but absolutely no sign of that on yesterday's evidence. |
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Post by Dave on Jun 27, 2010 8:31:17 GMT
Carrying on the theme of this thread and as Barton Downs has walked so many places in Devon I ask where is this cross?  |
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Post by stefano on Jun 27, 2010 8:54:15 GMT
Carrying on the theme of this thread and as Barton Downs has walked so many places in Devon I ask where is this cross? Spurrell's Cross on Piles Hill?  |
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Post by Dave on Jun 27, 2010 9:10:28 GMT
Bloody hell that was quick Stefano and poor Barton never even got a chance to look at the picture  Your are correct sir Spurrell's Cross - This medieval cross marks where the Monks’ route from Buckfast Abbey to Plympton Priory met the Wrangaton to Erme Pound track. The cross has been repaired with a 20th century shaft. |
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Post by Dave on Jun 27, 2010 9:15:35 GMT
What are these remnants of ?  |
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Post by chelstongull on Jun 27, 2010 9:28:01 GMT
The Granite Tramway near Haytor?
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Post by Dave on Jun 27, 2010 9:42:59 GMT
The Granite Tramway near Haytor? No sorry Phil you are not correct, but you are on the right TRACK |
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Post by merse on Jun 27, 2010 11:23:49 GMT
 Is that the quarry behind Haytor from which London Bridge and other famous landmarks in the capital was hewn from? Many years since I visited that spot, but it looks familiar.
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Post by Dave on Jun 27, 2010 11:38:29 GMT
No sorry merse not right I'm afaid. take a look again and what does the track look like? and take a closer look at the rocks for they hold the bigger clue.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2010 19:41:46 GMT
If you took the picture on the same day you visited Spurrell's Cross it could be the Redlake tramway (but I can't guess the purpose of the rocks). Lovely day on Dartmoor today and there were plenty of cyclists between Princetown and Postbridge between 1030 and 1100. Later I was at the place below - anybody recognise it?  |
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Post by Dave on Jun 27, 2010 20:31:37 GMT
They are indeed remnants of the red lake railway.there's a few pieces of the railway track embedded in the concrete so I expect they were once laid over a ditch or a small stream?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2010 21:09:29 GMT
First thought for that little village was Clearbrook but then I realised Barton was going in the other direction. The ridge behind looks like the one where you go from Tavistock to Sourton, but although I am sure I will have been there can't pick the village out!! I think I've unintentionally misled you, Stefano, as I was actually heading from Postbridge towards Princetown and beyond. I was to the south west of Dartmoor and the ridge in question isn't entirely natural. They are indeed remnants of the red lake railway.there's a few pieces of the railway track embedded in the concrete so I expect they were once laid over a ditch or a small stream? I first walked the Redlake Tramway c1971 on a school sponsored walk. From memory sponsored walks were a relatively new thing at the time and it always struck me as a rather un-grammar school thing (for those days anyway) to allow the boys a day away from the hard grind of the examination factory. I'm sure my O levels suffered as a consequence. I remember us being transported by double-decker bus to between Bittaford and Ivybridge. Other tramways in the area included the Lee Moor and the Zeal Tor. Then, up the Tamar Valley, you had the Devon Great Consols network. It's amazing to think of the mineral wealth of the Tamar Valley - and Cornwall, of course - at their peak. On Dave's topic of disused railways I was in the Plym valley today close to the former Tavistock line which is now a cycle/walkway from pretty close to Clearbrook down towards Plympton. It's a lovely valley and you could be miles from Plymouth. Trying to think of other cycle paths along old Devon lines I've come up with Lydford-Meldon, the Tarka Trail between Meeth and Barnstaple (as we discussed last week), Barnstaple-Braunton and sections between Budleigh and Exmouth. |
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