Geograph - photograph every grid square

Abundance of trees with autumnal colours...fast approaching winter

Looking along a country road.

Haytor Quarries on Dartmoor were opened circa 1820 and a means of transporting the granite to New Quay, Teignmouth – whence it was shipped to the metropolis and used in the construction of London Bridge, now in Arizona – had to be devised.... (more)

This is next to one of the best remaining section of the Haytor tramway, that took granite from quarries around Haytor to the Stover Canal and River Teign from 1820 to 1858. The rails themselves were granite, cut with outer flanged edges.... (more)

This looks very like Acaena novae-zelandiae between the car park and the Woodcock Stream at Yarner Wood. The plant, which has hooked spines on its bur-like fruit, was imported from the Antipodes in sheep's wool. But this seems a... (more)

Recently built by the look of it. Used I think for education purposes.

The Granite Railway was built in the first quarter of the 19th century to carry stone from Dartmoor to water-borne transport (canal, river & sea). Horse drawn carts followed grooved stones; some of the milestones remain.

Looking at SX7878 : Junction at Reddaford Water from a different angle gives a view along the road to Bovey Tracey. Bovey Tracey Bridleway 16 leaves through the gate on the right.

Built of granite blocks in 1820; carried granite quarried by Haytor to the Stover Canal for shipping to London and other sites from the quay at Teignmouth

A modern prefabricated building with a stone wall around it

National Nature Trail in Yarner Wood, viewed from Shaptor Rock.