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HTTP/1.1 200 OKDate: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:38:41 GMTContent-Type: text/html; charsetutf-8Transfer-Encoding: chunkedConnection: keep-aliveAccess-Control-Allow-Origin: *Cache-Control: public, max-age0, must-revalidatereferrer-policy: strict-origin-when-cross-originx-content-type-options: nosniffVary: accept-encodingReport-To: {group:cf-nel,max_age:604800,endpoints:{url:https://a.nel.cloudflare.com/report/v4?sV9GaA5BpBvOegOUm3g0cYALrFA5BRgn5arrjvvpfijo49wAhuwFuSUtLAltcG3UwmFePV%2B48wUPqoEk5yOGW1o6FhI0WASNiGx%2FPE8Mas60hYhZZlLKT}}Nel: {report_to:cf-nel,success_fraction:0.0,max_age:604800}Server: cloudflarecf-cache-status: DYNAMICCF-RAY: 9a515736efddc12a-PDXalt-svc: h3:443; ma86400 html xmlns:vurn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml xmlns:ourn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office xmlnshttps://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40>head> TITLE>Dartmoor CAM Walks/TITLE> META NAMEdescription CONTENTPhotographs from walks in Dartmoor National Park, England, including their GPS tracks. (Digdilem)> META NAMEkeywords CONTENTdartmoor, dartmoor national park, walks, walking, dartmoor tor, dartmoor tors, tor, tors> META HTTP-EQUIVContent-type CONTENTtext/html; charsetwindows-1252> LINK REVmade hrefmailto:digdilem@gmail.com> META NAMEauthor CONTENTKeith Ryan> META NAMEROBOTS CONTENTALL /> link relstylesheet typetext/css href/dcam.css> link href/slider/js-image-slider.css relstylesheet typetext/css /> script src/slider/js-image-slider.js typetext/javascript>/script> style typetext/css> } .auto-style16 { border-collapse: collapse; border-style: none; border-color: inherit; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;} .auto-style13 { line-height: 150%;} .auto-style20 { color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline;} .auto-style18 { text-decoration: none;} .auto-style27 { line-height: 150%;} .auto-style25 { text-align: center;} .auto-style31 { text-align: left;} .auto-style30 { border-width: 0px; } .auto-style26 { margin-left: 40px;} .auto-style32 { line-height: 150%; margin-left: 40px;}.auto-style4 { color: rgb(0, 0, 0);}.auto-style28 { background-color: #FFFFFF; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);}.auto-style19 { background-color: #FFFFFF;} .auto-style1 { color: #179004; font-weight: bold;} .auto-style33 { color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold;} .auto-style3 { font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);}.auto-style2 { font-weight: bold;} /style> script defer srchttps://stats99.digdilem.org/script.js data-website-id1edddf22-f5de-4b3a-914c-cb0f34ada387>/script> /head>body> table aligncenter cellSpacing0 cellPadding0 width100% border0 height14> tr> p styletext-align:center> a href/>img src/logo.jpg stylemargin: 20px 0 10px; />/a> /p> /tr> /table> div idwrapper> table aligncenter cellSpacing0 cellPadding0 width100% border0 height14> tr> p styletext-align:center> Welcome to DartmoorCAM - a very large record of walking on Dartmoor. br> i>Sadly, the author, Keith Ryan, passed away in 2023. This site is being maintained by a href/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#47232e20232e2b222a07202a262e2b6924282a>Simon Avery/a>/i> br> a href/CAM/previouswalks/previouswalks.htm>Previous walks/a> a href/CAM/weather/weather.htm>Weather/a> a href/CAM/Links/Links.htm>Links/a> form actionhttps://www.google.com/cse idsearchbox_000161825204118443084:d_csd3lhffq> input typehidden namecx value000161825204118443084:d_csd3lhffq /> input typetext nameq size25 />input typesubmit namesa valueSearch /> Search Dartmoor CAM /form> /p> /tr> /table> !-- Google CSE Search Box Begins --> div idsliderFrame stylemargin-bottom:50px;> div idslider> img srcslider/slider1.jpg alt#htmlcaption /> img srcslider/slider2.jpg alt#htmlcaption /> img srcslider/slider3.jpg alt#htmlcaption /> img srcslider/slider4.jpg alt#htmlcaption /> img srcslider/slider5.jpg alt#htmlcaption /> img srcslider/slider6.jpg alt#htmlcaption /> img srcslider/slider7.jpg alt#htmlcaption /> img srcslider/slider8.jpg alt#htmlcaption /> img srcslider/slider9.jpg alt#htmlcaption /> img srcslider/slider10.jpg alt#htmlcaption /> p> /div> div idhtmlcaption styledisplay: none;> Dartmoor photos from across the National Park /div> /div> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p>strong>This walk:/strong> /p>p styleline-height: 150%>2021-11-25. "Two Bridges Quarry Tor", Longford Tor, Littaford Tor, gateway, Crockern Tor, Stannary Parliament, Parliament Rock (cryers seat), Bellever Tor, Beardown Tors, firing range flagpole, Devonport Leat, Higher White Tor, (Wistmans Warren), Wistmans Wood, Buller Stone, Crow Tor, West Dart River, Cowsic River, 1931 road bridge plaque, Two Bridges Hotel, 1792 turnpike road bridge, HT 94 stone, telegraph marker. D365-(K9), L9, M9. /p>p styleline-height: 150%>a href#Walk details>Walk details below/a> - Information about the route etc./p>p styleline-height: 150%>Previous walks in this area: a href//alpha.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2009-6-3_WistmansWood/wistmans.htm>strong>3 June 2009/strong>/a>, a href//alpha.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2009-10-8_Higher_White-Tor/higherwhite.htm>strong>8 October 2009/strong>/a>, a href//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2015-2-4_TwoBridges/TwoBridges.htm>strong>4 February 2015/strong>/a>,a href//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2016-2-3_TwoBridges/TwoBridges.htm>strong>3 February 2016/strong>/a>,a href//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2016-11-3_TwoBridges/TwoBridges.htm>strong>3 November 2016/strong>/a> /p> p> Reconnaissance walks: a hrefhttps://drive.google.com/open?id1NdJZ8fBAIuBOc4EXOjAMy7x4cQpy796Z&uspsharing> strong>29 January 2020/strong>/a>, a hrefhttps://drive.google.com/open?id1qTuINRQDgwDLBP5sVHwRsDV8Ug1paHfI&uspsharing> strong>5 February 2020/strong>/a>, a hrefhttps://drive.google.com/open?id10f8ntCi8mJuSU53zT5gXd17ys4q8cC_G&uspsharing> strong>21 February 2020/strong>/a> - the 29th Jan, has all the labels./p> ul> li>try zooming in with the mouse thumbwheel and "dragging" the map to see points of interest /li> li>click on the place-markers to read their label - they are most accurate at the highest zoom level /li> li>try "mousing" over the list of placemarks on the left of the screen, highlights their place on the map /li> li>use browser back arrow or Alt key and left-arrow cursor key together to return to normal web page./li> /ul>p styleline-height: 150%>This walk used the strong>29 January 2020/strong> GPS track is used on the map at the bottom of the page - it was the longer 4� mile walk, going along the "tops" before dropping into the Valley at the far, north end.The GoogleSatellite view of the route is here: a hrefhttps://drive.google.com/open?id1NdJZ8fBAIuBOc4EXOjAMy7x4cQpy796Z&uspsharing> strong>29 January 2020/strong>/a>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7758.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> "Two Bridges Tor" - this granite formation in the car park opposite the Two Bridges Hotel./p> p styleline-height: 150%> This feature is said to illustrate how the tors of Dartmoor were formed - the rock is eroded underground. The hypothesis being that the rain-water was acidic, further enhanced by the soils, causing the erosion i.e. "rotting" of weaknesses in the rock to form horizontal and vertical joints, leaving them filled with soft growan and sand. The growan and sand becomes removed in geological time i.e. millions of years as the nascent tor becomes exposed to the atmosphere by the erosion of the overlying soils. Source: Ken Ringwood, em>Dartmoors Tor and Rocks/em>, University of Plymouth Press, 2013, page 9 ..... /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7759.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> A closer view: the quarry is one of many roadside pits developed for sand, gravel and stone by roadbuilders ...../p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150% classauto-style16> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/SCANofTwoBridgesQuarry.jpg>br>strong> span classauto-style18>Copyright permission sought - no longer the publisher (since 2005), rightsholder unknown/span>/strong>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> Drawing of the Two Bridges quarry car park from John W Perkins (1972), em>Geology Explained: Dartmoor and the Tamar Valley/em>, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, p.81. /p> p styleline-height: 150%> a hrefhttps://www.cardiff.ac.uk/obituaries/obituary/john-perkins> strong>John W Perkins 1935-2008 Obituary/strong>/a> - a Devonian/p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7761.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> Zoomed view to Longford Tor, SX 615 779, elevation 507 metres (1663 feet), seen from the high ground near Two Bridges ..... /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7763.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> Zoomed view to Littaford Tors, SX 61620 76916, elevation 444 metres (1456 feet), also from high ground near Two Bridges./p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7765.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> a hrefhttps://www.gallowaycattlesociety.co.uk/>strong>Galloway cows/strong>/a> seen near Two Bridges. The farmer said that some years ago he had them with a dun Galloway bull and that occasionally a dun ("blond") calf is born as a "throwback". There is one present now, in January 2020. Before meeting the farmer feeding them (5th Feb. 2020), I was trying to decide if they were a hrefhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_cattle>strong>Dexters/strong>/a> (seen near Hound Tor) or a hrefhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_cattle>strong>Angus/strong>/a>, with them being all-black. I always thought Galloways were a hrefhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belted_Galloway>strong>"belted" Galloways/strong>/a>. Moral - never judge a book by its cover! /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7867.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> The site of Muddilake Brook Head, SX 61225 75796, near enough the "X" made by the track going across the wet trace of the stream. There is a "mirey" area just left of this, with some stones. The gate in the next photograph can be seen in the wall behind, slightly to the right./p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7768.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> First gateway, at SX 61164 75347, note the iron gate-hangers. Through here and turn right for Crockern Tor ..... /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7769.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> Approaching Crockern Tor, meeting place of the Stannary Parliament, SX 61560 75778, elevation 400 meters (1312 feet) ..... the famous Parliament Rock formation is down to the right ..... /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7775.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> A view of the Parliament Rock, near the bend in the Two Bridges / Postbridge road. This is presumably the em>"high corner stone for the cryer of the Court"/em> as described by Hemery (p.432). There were also the Judges Chair and Judges Table - both removed to Dunnabridge by a Mr Leaman, usingem> "12 yoke of oxen"/em> - I take this to mean a team of 24. There is an oval area below this that could have sat 80-100 "em>jurats/em>" or members of the Parliament. The mighty covered Judges Chair is now the prominent attraction at Dunnabridge Pound. /p> p styleline-height: 150%> The Stannary Parliament was the Great Court of the Devon Tinners: the court gatherings were really legislative meetings to discuss and enact the statutes that governed the tin industry of Devon. There were four ancient stannary towns where tin was weighed, assayed and tax paid: Ashburton, Chagford, Plympton and Tavistock. There are records of some of the meetings at em>"Crockerentorre" /em>which are believed to go back to 1300 AD. There is a book by Tom Greeves & Phil Newman (2011), em>The Great Courts of Devon Tinners, 1510 and 1710/em>, Dartmoor Tinworking Research Group, Exeter./p> p styleline-height: 150%> See a href/CAM/Tin_on_Dartmoor.htm>strong> Tin on Dartmoor (notes)/strong>/a> - between 1100 and 1650 AD some 26,000 tons of smelted, white tin were extracted from Dartmoor - the work involved a tremendous amount of ground disturbance, especially in the river valleys. strong>The most productive year was 1524 AD, when 252 tons of white i.e. smelted metal were produced./strong>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7778.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> A stone table! There are said to be other identifiable items that might have been used here "back-along" ..... /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7780.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> Another view of the imposing Parliament Rock, or "Court Cryers Chair". /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7781.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> Zoomed view to Bellever Tor - the sun didnt shine on it all day! /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> strong>Several features can be seen from high ground near Crockern Tor (these bearings from SX 61565 75841 using Memory Map)br>- based on Hemerys list on page 426. /strong>/p> p> /p> table aligncenter classauto-style1 stylewidth: 500px> tr> td classauto-style3 stylewidth: 202px>strong>Feature/strong>/td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px>strong>Bearing �/strong>/td> td classauto-style19>strong>Distance (miles)/strong>/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style4 colspan3>Nstrong>orth ...../strong> /td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Cut Hill /td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px>344�/td> td classauto-style19> 4.4/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Black Ridge /td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px> 346�/td> td classauto-style19> 6.2/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Whitehorse Hill /td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px>359�/td> td classauto-style19> 6.0/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Quintins Man /td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px> 2�/td> td classauto-style19> 5.1/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 colspan3>Littaford, Longaford & Higher White Tors closer/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Siddaford Tor /td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px>12� /td> td classauto-style19> 4.6/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style4 colspan3>strong>North-east ...../strong>/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Sheepfold /td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px>28�/td> td classauto-style19> 3.6/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 styleheight: 26px; width: 202px> Hartland Tor /td> td classauto-style19 styleheight: 26px; width: 152px>30�/td> td classauto-style19 styleheight: 26px> 3.1/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Caroline Farm /td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px> 43�/td> td classauto-style19> 4.6/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style4 colspan3>strong>Central Basin landmarks ...../strong>/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Powder Mills/td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px> 45�/td> td classauto-style19> 1.1/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 styleheight: 26px; width: 202px> Bellever Tor /td> td classauto-style19 styleheight: 26px; width: 152px> 76�/td> td classauto-style19 styleheight: 26px> 1.8/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Brimpts Plantation/td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px> 112�/td> td classauto-style19> 3.3/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Stennats (Swincombe)/td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px> 148�/td> td classauto-style19> 2.5/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>all with Ryder Hill beyond /td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px> 145�/td> td classauto-style19> 5.0/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style4 colspan3>strong>East ...../strong>/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Cherry Brook peninsula/td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px>----/td> td classauto-style19>----/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Hameldown /td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px> 60�/td> td classauto-style19> 6.2/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Hey Tor/td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px> 83�/td> td classauto-style19> 8.8/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Saddle Tor/td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px> 86�/td> td classauto-style19> 8.4/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style4 colspan3>strong>South-east ...../strong>/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Corndon Tor/Hill /td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px> 102�/td> td classauto-style19>4.5/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Sharp Tor/td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px> 110�/td> td classauto-style19>4.7/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Yartor Down/td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px> 111�/td> td classauto-style19>4.3/td> /tr> tr> td classauto-style2 stylewidth: 202px>Double Dart Valley >>> /td> td classauto-style19 stylewidth: 152px>----/td> td classauto-style19>----/td> /tr> /table> p> /p> p> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7783.JPG>/p>p styleline-height: 150%>A view of two of the Beardown Tors - the right-hand one has the firing range flagpole ..... /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7784.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Flagpole at SX 60527 77396./p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7786.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Looking across from high ground after Crockern Tor towards the plantation on Beardown Hill, the area where Devonport Leat is said to "run uphill". It is hard to photograph properly without a tripod and a spirit level ..... more below./p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7793.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>A view of Littaford Tors (near), Longford Tor (left) and Higher White Tor, at SX 61980 78571./p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7796.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Another view of Littaford Tors with Longford Tor behind (in shadow). /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7802.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>The main pile at Littaford Tors. Down to the left, this side of the rocks, is a very long rabbit bury ("pillow mound") that is part of strong>Wistmans Warren/strong> - 108 metres (118 yards). It is a lot of brown tussocky grass in brown tussocky grass and does not photograph well! According to the HER record below there are, variously, 12, 17, 15 and 16 +8 probable pillow mounds. Slightly confusing. /p> p styleline-height: 150%>strong>strong stylecolor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;> a hrefhttps://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uidMDV14156&resourceID104> Devon & Dartmoor HER - MDV14156 - RABBIT WARREN in the Parish of Dartmoor Forest/a>/strong>/strong>a hrefhttps://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uidMDV14156&resourceID104> /a>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> According toEric Hemery (1983), i>High Dartmoor/i>/span>, Robert Hale, London, p.456, the warren was built in 1895 by James Saltroun of Powdermills as an endeavour, after the closure of the gunpowder factory at Powdermills. There was a game keeper and a butcher from Tavistock took a weekly delivery of rabbits for meat. The keeper lived in a wooden shack but joined the prison service at some point, the shack was a ruin before the start of WW1. /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7805.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Overview of the Beardown Tors./p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7813.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Devonport Leat, running across the photograph down from the skyline. The slope of the valley bottom and the West Dart River, falling to the left, and the slope of the hill, also falling to the left, give the illusion that Devonport Leat (the thin dark line across the view), flowing to the left is actually running uphill. /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7818.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Looking back up at Littaford Tors./p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7819.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>A low-angle view of the Buller Stone, at SX 61246 77352, taken on arrival in not-so-good light (there are better-lit photographs below). This is to compare with the following photograph ..... /p> p> /p> p classauto-style16> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/OldBullerStone-DartmoorArchive.jpg stylewidth: 1000; height: 597>br>Image reproduced with permission from strong> a hrefhttps://dartmoorarchive.org>Dartmoor Archive/a>/strong>br>See the image online strong>a hrefhttps://dartmoorarchive.org/record/3084>HERE/a>/strong> /p> p styleline-height: 150%>This Dartmoor Archive photograph was taken in 1889, 130 years ago, when the tree next to the stone seems not to have been there. There are old photographs that show the wood has changed shape over the years. /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7831.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Crow Tor, SX 60632 78791, elevation 501 metres (1643 feet); also known as Crewtor and Crowter ...../p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7835.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Zoomed view./p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> hr> p styleline-height: 150%>strong>Further up the valley - Wistmans Warren House/strong> ...../p> p styleline-height: 150%> a hrefhttps://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id442777#aRt> strong>Pastscape Monument No. 442777/strong>/a> - strong>click "Related Text"/strong> - it was intended to include this site in the walk, but the clitter path is perhaps beyond our group. Another link to the site is a hrefhttps://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/wistmans-warren.htm> strong>Legendary Dartmoor - Wistmans Warren/strong>/a>. /p>p styleline-height: 150%>William Crossing (1912, reprinted 2001), i>Crossings Guide to Dartmoor/i>, Peninsula Press, Newton Abbot, page 115 ...../p> table aligncenter stylewidth: 75%> tr> td>em>"About a third of a mile above the higher oak grove, which is due W. of Longford Tor, is Wistmans Wood Ford on the Dart, and to this we shall now direct our steps. On our way we pass a small deserted dwelling, constructed of wood, once the abode of a warrener, and in which readers of strong>The River /strong>will recognise the home of Nicholas Edgecombe."/em>/td> /tr> /table> p styleline-height: 150%> em>strong>The River/strong>/em> refers to the a hrefhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Phillpotts>strong>Eden Phillpotts/strong>/a> book, published in 1902. /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> hr> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7838.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Zoomed view down to the West Dart River. The East Dart runs through Postbridge, under the iconic clapper bridge, before they join together at Dartmeet. /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7843.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Returning to Wistmans Wood, with some sunshine ..... the Buller Stone again ...../p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7844.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>A closer view of the Buller Stone ...../p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSC00049-3-6-2009.JPG>/p> p>The Buller Stone inscription ..... photographed on 3rd June 2009, there is more lichen growth on it today .....br> /p> p classauto-style16>strong>BY PERMISSION OF HRH THE PRINCE OF WALESbr> WENTWORTH BULLERbr>ON SEPT 16th CUT DOWN A TREE NEAR THIS SPOTbr>IT MEASURED ( 9 IN ) IN DIAMETERbr>AND APPEARED TO BE ABOUTbr>168 YEARS OLD/strong>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7845.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Wistmans Wood is a place I have never taken a pleasing photograph of - it is so cluttered and "busy", although I had some decent lichen photos a few years ago and in the mid-1970s, in the a hrefhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkormat>strong>Nikkormat/strong>/a> Era ...../p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7846.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>The rocky "floor" almost precludes any walking in the wood. There used to be a Nature Conservancy notice about the area./p> p styleline-height: 150%>strong>WISTMANS WOOD/strong> - There is discussion in the literature about the origin of the name . To save excessive text, this quotation from Mike Brown suffices ...../p> table aligncenter stylewidth: 75%> tr> td>em>Altogether a remarkable place, said by early antiquaries to be the home of the druids, supposing Wistman to be a corruption of �wise man�. But, quite aside from the reality that there is no evidence whatsoever to associate these white-bearded priests with Dartmoor, this supposed derivation of the name is incorrect. There are two more plausible explanations for the name, either that it is derived from Welshman�s Wood, �Welsh� or �Wealas� being the Saxon word for �foreigners�, or that it comes from the Devon word �wisht� meaning �haunted�. /em>/td> /tr> /table> p>Source:Mike Brown (2001), i>Guide to Dartmoor/i>, CD-ROM, Dartmoor Press, Grid Square 612 774span stylecolor: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px>./span>/p> p>Also: Mrs Bray (a hrefhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Eliza_Bray>strong>Anna Eliza Bray/strong>/a> or Mrs A. Eliza Bray) (1836), em>The Borders of the Tamar and Tavy,/em> Vol 1, John Murray, London.em>strong> /strong> p.57, 73, 97-102. /em>/p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7847.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Looking from Wistmans Wood down the valley towards Two Bridges - the sun had "gone in" ...../p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7850.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Similar to the previous photograph but zoomed, showing the West Dart River ...../p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7852.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>As previous photograph./p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7854.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Looking back at Wistmans Wood, where the slopes of the valley floor and skyline of the hill make it appear that the Devonport Leat (the thin dark line running left/right) is running uphill, towards the left./p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7856.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>View from the modern road bridge at Two Bridges, opened 1931, showing the Cowsic River (largely hidden by overhanging tree branches, lower centre in photograph) running into the West Dart River ..... /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7857.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Plaque on the 1931 Prince Edward Bridge ..... there is supposed to be a "C stone" here somewhere but it has eluded me so far! span classauto-style20 stylecolor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;> These date from thespan> /span>/span>a hrefhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridges_Act_1530 styletext-transform: none; color: rgb(23, 144, 4); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;>strong>Bridges Act 1803/strong>/a>span stylecolor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none> /span>span stylecolor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;>(see down the article) which included: "/span>span stylecolor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 19.1875px; float: none; display: inline !important> /span>span stylecolor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 19.1875px; float: none; display: inline !important;>..... namely, the County Surveyor of the County responsible for the upkeep of subject bridges, and the roads over them for 100 yards past the ends of the bridge ....." Prior to this, bridges were subject to thespan> /span>a hrefhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridges_Act_1530 styletext-transform: none; color: rgb(23, 144, 4);>strong>Bridges Act, 1530/strong>/a>span> /span>andspan> /span>a hrefhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridges_Act styletext-transform: none; color: rgb(23, 144, 4);>strong>several others/strong>/a>span> /span>that have come and gone. T/span>span classauto-style20 stylecolor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;>hose on Dartmoor are listed onspan> /span>/span>a hrefhttps://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/county_stone.htm styletext-transform: none; color: rgb(23, 144, 4); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;>strong>Legendary Dartmoor - The County Stones/strong>/a>span stylecolor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;>./span> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7861.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Two Bridges Hotel ...../p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150% classauto-style16> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/1840TitheMap-TwoBridges.jpg>br> strong>span classauto-style18>Image reproduced with permission: /span>/strong> em> span classauto-style1 stylecolor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; float: none; display: inline !important;>a hrefhttps://new.devon.gov.uk/copyright/>strong> span classauto-style18>Devon County Council/span>/strong>/a> /span> /em>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>In the a hrefhttps://www.devon.gov.uk/historicenvironment/tithe-map/lydford-forest-of-dartmoor/> strong>1840 Lydford (Forest of Dartmoor) Tithe Map/strong>/a> the Two Bridges Hotel was the Saracens Head Inn (from bottom left corner, 1/3rd the way in and 1/3rd the way up). Also on the a hrefhttps://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom18&lat50.5583&lon-3.9655&layers168&b1> strong>1888-1913 Series 25-inch OS map/strong>/a>. p styleline-height: 150%>strong>Saracens Head Inn:/strong> a booklet to mark its 225-year history records that "em>By 1772 the Turnpike bridge had been constructed across the Dart at Two Bridges and by 1794 Francis Buller had constructed the inn near the site. The inn bore the name of strong>The Saracen�s Head/strong>, a familiar name for pubs at the time but likely also connected to the fact that the Buller family crest was a Saracens head affronte, couped, proper"./em> Source: Alex Mettler (2015, rev.edn. 2018), em>Air Like Champagne: A short history of the Two Bridges Hotel, Dartmoor/em>. Published by Two Bridges Hotel, Dartmoor, Devon, page 2. /p> p styleline-height: 150%>The name "strong>Two Bridges Hotel/strong>" seems to first appear after a change of landlord in May 1849 in an advertisement in the em>Western Morning News/em>. In 1885, the name em>The Saracens Head Inn/em> appeared in an advetisement to let including "em>that well known Inn House The Saracens Head ..... with buildings, stables, sheds and appurtenanes etc"/em>. The em>Two Bridges Inn/em> was destroyed by fire in late May 1866, as reported in the em>Exeter Flying Post/em>. The old name continued to be used for some time. /p> p styleline-height: 150%>Wentworth Buller, who cut the tree in 1868, was no doubt related to Sir /span>Francis Buller, who had built the inn by 1794, some 74 years earlier? A web page about a hrefhttps://boveytraceyhistory.org.uk/people/buller/ relnoopener noreferrer target_blank> strong>The Bullers of Bovey Tracy/strong>/a> mentions Capt. Thomas Wentworth Buller (1792-1852); Wentworth William Buller (1834-1883). There is a Wikipedia entry for a hrefhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Francis_Buller,_1st_Baronet#Moorland_improver relnoopener noreferrer target_blank> strong>Sir Francis Buller/strong>/a> that includes em>"He also built an inn, named the Saracens Head after the Buller familys crest, at Two Bridges, on a site now occupied by the Two Bridges Hotel." /em> This was citing: William Crossing (1902),em> A Hundred Years on Dartmoor,/em> 5th edn, The Western Morning News Co. Ltd, Plymouth, p.53. a hrefhttps://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Bovey_Tracey_Pottery_Co> strong>Wentworth William Buller/strong>/a> was much involved with the a hrefhttps://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Bovey_Tracey_Pottery_Co>strong> Bovey Tracy Pottery Company/strong>/a>./p> em> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7859.JPG>/p> /em> p styleline-height: 150%>The earlier 1772 turnpike road bridge that runs past the hotel door./p> p styleline-height: 150%>strong>The history of the roads in the area/strong> is not easy to follow. a hrefhttps://www.turnpikes.org.uk/Devon%20-%20Rodborough%20Dartmoor.htm?LMCLKPR5VP> strong>Tavistock Turnpike Road Trust/strong>/a> (created 1762) included the road through Two Bridges to Moreton Hampstead. a hrefhttps://www.turnpikes.org.uk/Devon%20-%20Tavistock%20Plymouth.htm> strong>Plymouth and Tavistock Turnpike Road/strong>/a> (created 1772) and a hrefhttps://www.turnpikes.org.uk/Devon%20-%20Moretonhampstead%20Road.htm?LMCLgMh_Yg> strong>Moretonhampstead Turnpike Trust/strong>/a> (created 1772) cut the new road across Dartmoor (Tavistock to Exeter). The road from Two Bridges to Moreton Hampstead a hrefhttps://www.turnpikes.org.uk/map%20Devon%20turnpikes.jpg> strong>was built in 1780/strong>/a>. The a hrefhttps://www.turnpikes.org.uk/Devon%20-%20Rodborough%20Dartmoor.htm?LMCLKPR5VP> strong>Roborough and Dartmoor Turnpike Road Trust/strong>/a> (created 1812) also seemed to have been involved. They all seem to have Two Bridges mentioned in their descriptions. /p> em> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7862.JPG>/p> /em> p styleline-height: 150%>Old mill stone in the garden ...../p> p styleline-height: 150%>/p> table aligncenter cellpadding5 cellspacing5 stylewidth: 100%> tr> td classauto-style16> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7873.JPG stylewidth: 380px; height: 285px> /td> td classauto-style16> /td> td classauto-style16> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7879.JPG stylewidth: 380px; height: 285px> /td> /tr> tr> td> p classauto-style13>HT 94 - Henry Trinaman - the Saracens Head Manager from 1893-1917. The Saracens Head went on to become The Two Bridges Hotel. He moved in around 1893 and completed an extension in 1894, no doubt marked by this stone in the tarmac outside the main entrance, to the right at the far end of the picnic tables. There were later extensions. /p> /td> td> p classauto-style13>/p> /td> td> p classauto-style13>A a hrefhttps://dartefacts.co.uk/classifications/telegraph-markers/> strong>GPO Telegraph Marker Plate/strong>/a> in the hotel car park, across the way from the main entrance on the bend going out to the old turnpike road bridge. The E-R marking implies it was installed after 1953. These date back to a hrefhttps://www.telegraphpoleappreciationsociety.org/images/userImages/gpo/markerpost.jpg> strong>Queen Victorias era, marked V-R/strong>/a>. They had loose plate inserts giving the distance to underground telephone cables. See a hrefhttps://www.canterbury-archaeology.org.uk/gpo/4590809492> strong>HERE/strong>/a>. /p> /td> /tr> /table> p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%> img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/DSCN7866.JPG>/p> p styleline-height: 150%>Notice at the main hotel entrance, across the road from the quarry car park entrance. /p> p styleline-height: 150%> /p>p styleline-height: 150%>b>a nameWalk details>Walk details/a> /b>/p>p styleline-height: 150%>MAP: b>font color#FF0000>Red/font>/b> GPS satellite track of the walk./p>p styleline-height: 150% classauto-style16>img src//beta.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2020-2-25_DPA_WistmansWood/WistmansWood-map.jpg stylewidth: 1055; height: 1344>br> font size2>� Crown copyright 2016 Ordnance Survey Licence number 100047373br> Also, Copyright 2005, Memory-Map Europe, with permission./font>/p>p styleline-height: 150%> /p>p styleline-height: 150%>span stylecolor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;>This walk was reached by following the B3212 from Princetown and parking in the quarry opposite the Two Bridges Hotel, at the yellow cross//span> b>span stylebackground-color: #0000FF>font color#FFFFFF> P/font>/span>/b> symbol on the map/p>p styleline-height: 150%> /p> p styleline-height: 150%>b>Statistics/b>br>Distance - 7.5 km / 4.6 miles/p> p> /p> p aligncenter>b>All photographs on this web site are copyright a href/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#781c111f1c11141d15381f15191114561b1715>© Simon Avery/a>. br>All rights reserved - please a href/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c4a0ada3a0ada8a1a984a3a9a5ada8eaa7aba9>email/a> for permissions/b> br> i>Site history/i> ul> li>To 2022, this site was built and maintained by Keith Ryan, who took all the photos and wrote all the walk guides./li> li>Keith then passed the site onto Simon Avery to look after when he became too ill to do so himself, and shortly afterwards died./li> li>Simon moved this and some other of Keiths sites onto his own servers on Dartmoor and hosted them./li> li>September 2024+, Simon split the site so it could benefit from the faster speeds of being hosts on Cloudflares Pages system. The amount of page bots accessing the site including a rise by AI page scrapers started to overwhelm the rural internet connection this site was running on, to the extent that rate limit needed to be applied and that was impacting legitimate visitors too.br> Splitting the site was necessary as Pages has a 20,000 file limit, and Dartmoorcam comprises of 28,000 files, mostly pictures! Updating the URLs took quite a long time, but hopefully there arent too many broken pages. Some images were found to be missing and likely were before, and a handful of large movies had to go too, again because of Cloudflares limits. But they are hosting it for free, and they have our thanks for that. 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