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This walk: 2010-6-19. A wet, misty day: cockchafer (May bug), oak, bluebells, Yeo Farm, 1610 lintel, Burrator Wood, step stile, string-of-sausages lichen, Sheeptor church, Sheeps Tor, walling, gorse, Cuckoo Flower aka Lady's Smock, ponies.

Walk details below - Information about the route etc.

 

Seen outside the backdoor on the way to the walk - a cockchafer beetle, May bug, Melolontha melolontha.

 

Fresh, young oak leaves (English or Common oak, Quercus robur aka Q. pedunculata) - the leaves are lobed at the base where they join the petiole (leaf stalk) - see top left area of the photo.

 

A view along the path near the car park.

 

Bluebells, Hyacinthoides non-scripta, seen on a hedge.

 

Bluebells - close-up.

 

Yeo Farm.

 

An old lintel - 1610 AD, with IW and T below.

 

A sunken lane near Yeo Farm.

 

Bluebells in Burrator Wood.

 

Bluebells in Burrator Wood.

 

Bluebells in Burrator Wood.

 

Bluebells in Burrator Wood.

 

Bluebells in Burrator Wood.

 

A rare white variant of the bluebells in Burrator Wood.

 

Bluebells in Burrator Wood.

 

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Bluebells in Burrator Wood

 

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A well-made step stile over a hedge.

 

String-of-sausages-lichen, Usnea articulata, a fruticose lichen (branched shrub-like thallus, attached by a holdfast).

 

As previous.

 

Looking back to the step-stile, in the corner of the field.

 

Sheepstor Church in the mist, with Sheeps Tor behind.

 

Another view of the church at Sheepstor.

 

An example of walling.

 

Gorse - with raindrop on the camera lens! This is probably Western gorse, Ulex galli, judging from the low, branching nature.

 

Gorse flowers in the mist .....

 

Gorse flowers.

 

As previous photo.

 

A recent piece of wall repair.

 

Cuckoo Flower (Lady's Smock), Cardamine pratensis.

 

As previous photo.

 

A hazard of parking on Dartmoor - ponies!

 

As previous photo.

 

Walk details

MAP: Red = GPS satellite track of the walk.


Ordnance Survey © Crown copyright 2005. All rights reserved. Licence number 100047373.
Also, Copyright © 2005, Memory-Map Europe, with permission.

 

The walk was accessed via Yelverton > Dousland > near Meavy or Plympton > Cadover Bridge direction. Car parking was at the small disused quarry indicated by the yellow cross on the map known as Ringmoor Cott.

 

Statistics
Distance - 3.4 km / 2.13 miles
 

 

 

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