Woodman’s Corner

K Scrivener

Woodman’s Corner is the boundary point to one of the busy western entrances to the parish of Burrator. At this corner stands a small stone inscribed ‘Walkn/Plymo/Moor’. An extract from an 1827 report on a bound beating of the parish of Buckland Monachorum refers to the spot as Cross Lanes. And a report of the beating of the bounds of Walkhampton led by Lord of the Manor Sir Mannasseh Masseh Lopes in 1821 mentions a stone at the spot. Is it the same stone? Where did the name Woodman’s Corner come from? If you know the answers, drop us a line.

Editorial

Ted Whitehead

I’m not sure what happened to summer -but I think it is gone!

We are lucky in this area to have a really good round of Fetes, open gardens and Flower shows - plus of course all the friendly coffee mornings where we catch up with old friends and make new ones.

You will see from the Quiz on page 11 that Nathaniel Rookes of Sheepstor won the Golden Jubilee £5 coin for the under 12’s Quiz; but disappointingly we didn’t have a single entry for the 12 to 16 age group with what we thought was a very easy question. This prize will now go to the winner of the final Quiz which is open to all - good luck.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Landlord and Landlady of The Walkhampton Inn, The Royal Oak Inn and The Burrator Inn for all their support over the years with their generous £10 meal voucher prizes. This was much appreciated by the Parish Council and of course by the winners.

The illustration on the front page is the last of our Burrator boundary series. I hope the front-page photo’s of these 4 issues have been a reminder of just how large an area the Burrator Grouped Parish covers. My thanks to Keith Scrivener for taking all the excellent pictures (sometimes in atrocious weather). I now look forward to getting back to a wide range of front-page photos or black and white line drawings.

We have a wealth of talent in this area as the Walkhampton Art show proved and the Beacon would welcome any suitable local illustrations. Articles must reach me by the 16th of November for inclusion in the Christmas issue.

Clerk’s Report

Mike Spry

A very quiet Summer in terms of Council activity, although the Planning Committee have had a steady number of Applications to consider, mainly of a domestic nature. It was a pity that work on the long awaited new playing field at Meavy Primary School was delayed as a result of local objection, even though permission had been granted some years ago and carelessly allowed to lapse by the County Council, which meant a new application was required. This delayed the contractors starting and finishing the work during the school holiday and means that work will be going on when parents and children are using the school. Current applications include a proposed store-room extension to Walkhampton Memorial Hall, for the alterations in use of some of the barns at Holewell Farm, Eggworthy and for two new dwellings off Lake Lane (at the Dousland end). Although the principle of altering the barn/store alongside Walkhampton PO was accepted, the actual design was refused and I understand a new one will be submitted. Planning consent has been given for 8 residential units at The Forge Walkhampton.

During the Summer period the Council use St Leonard’s Hall in Sheepstor. This is a great contrast to the other two Parish Halls as it is comparatively small & cosy and, with a new Hall Committee in place, refinements including a new heating system are being planned which, when added, should mean the Hall’s use being extended throughout the year.

The Finance Committee had the Annual Grants to deal with at the end of July and I am sure most of the Applicants will be well pleased with the support being given, which covers a wide range of activities from Parents & Toddlers to The Samaritans, and all of them very worthwhile in their own right.

Welcome to our new Councillor for Meavy Dr Scott Ferguson - we still have one vacancy for Meavy Ward and one for Sheepstor.

Don’t forget our bargain GREEN DEALS on both Compost bins and Water butts, priced at £12 & £14 respectively and available via The Chairman, Cllr Ellis. These items are sold at cost, to benefit the environment and yourself.

And finally, I am very pleased to be able to confirm on behalf of The Royal Oak Inn Committee & The Parish Council that, having sampled the local brew, as it were, Ann & Patrick Davis obviously liked what they found as they are extending their tenancy of The Inn for at least the next three years. On behalf of all locals, I wish them great & continued success.

Waiting for Broadband

Dr Graham Goddard

If you are a home or business user of the Internet, and there are lots of us around nowadays, then you are probably already aware of the potential benefits of Broadband/ADSL. This new technology offers continuous connection to the Internet (no dialling, no engaged tone) and much faster file download times. Broadband is available now in the more densely populated areas of the Country, but rural areas are being made to wait.

BT is following a basic principle of fixing a “trigger level” for each exchange. Until sufficient customers have registered their interest, then rural exchanges will not be ADSL-enabled. According to a recent BT press release, the trigger levels have been set at between 200 and 500 customer registrations.

There is a little wrinkle, though. Customers are not allowed to register their interest directly with BT. Rather, it has to be done indirectly via the Internet Service Provider (ISP). BT has helpfully put a list of ISPs on their web site and has indicated which ones will handle registrations of interest. Not all do.

At the time of writing, trigger levels have been set for 595 exchanges. These do not include Yelverton, which serves all of the Burrator Parish. A visit to www.bt.com/broadband yields the following from BT concerning the Yelverton exchange: “Your exchange is one of 400 sites undergoing a detailed review. The initial review has concluded that enabling your exchange would not seem viable without further knowledge of possible demand.” From the same source it appears that the total number of customer registrations of interest has reached just 24. At this rate, it will be many years before Yelverton is ADSL-enabled.

To change this, we need to bring about a dramatic increase in the number of customer registrations of interest. A factor of ten is required. If you are indeed a home or business user of the Internet, and a customer of BT, then please register your interest in using Broadband through your ISP as soon as possible. If your ISP does not support this, you can instead register using www.plusnet.co.uk . Either way, your action will not commit you in any way but it will send a message to BT that there really is sufficient demand in this area.

Please do take action. Unless enough people register, we will all be stuck with a third class service for a very long time to come.

Contact Graham by email at gcgoddard@southwestconsulting.co.uk 

THE ancient sport of bull-baiting was back on the programme after an absence of 250 years at Sheepstor’s summer revels in August. But unlike the cruel practice of olden days when a live animal was tethered to the ancient bull ring stone in the village’s church field, this time it was very much a ‘dumb animal’ that took the brunt of the abuse. The dummy bull was the source of much knock-about fun for children who threw hoops on its horns and tossed balls at tin cans on the toy beast’s back during a Party In The Paddock organised for villagers, their families and friends, to celebrate the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Year.

It was the first time that a village fete had been held in the field since those ancient days when the church had its own ale house, near which locals would sit on the churchyard wall enjoying a drink to the music of fiddle playing while the women of Sheepstor would attempt to catch in their leather aprons small dogs which had been tossed into the air by the poor tormented bull!

This year, happier games were enjoyed on a sunny Saturday afternoon among the flags and bunting at the village hall Jubilee Jamboree, including straw bale tossing, wellie throwing, sack races, a slippery snake hunt, and a sweet chase for the children.

A beautiful stretch of the nearby Sheepstor Brook provided the perfect water course for a plastic duck race, much to the amusement of all who watched and splashed about; and after this event the Dartmoor Border Morris group from Meavy gave a splendid demonstration of their dances around the village’s famous granite cross in the small square beneath the lychgate of St Leonard’s Church.

Later the 80 or so people who joined in to celebrate the day enjoyed an excellent barbecue and buffet laid on by the joint effort of local families. The evening finished with open-air music and dancing led by the band ‘Mountain Dew’ until dusk fell.

A raffle and other donations meant a profit of just over £200 was raised on the day towards the upkeep of Sheepstor Village Hall. The hall committee wishes to thank everyone who took part or contributed to the party and sends particular thanks to Annie and Patrick for their kind permission to use the private field.

The gathering was such a great success that all who took part are very much hoping something similar can be repeated before another 250 years pass us by.

EARLY on a bright sunny morning in mid-summer while driving across the moor to work I suddenly came across the unusual, yet delightful, spectacle of two fine-looking stoats engaged in playful pursuits on the green dewy grass by the side of the Dartmoor lane a little ahead of me.

I stopped the car, and for a couple of split seconds the furry friends seemed unaware of the metal monster that had pulled up abruptly so close to them. I watched as they tumbled and rolled with each other until suddenly one of the pair raised itself up on its back legs, revealing its white underbelly, sniffed the air from my car and then in total accord the two of them bolted into some unseen hole in the moorstone wall nearby. This pleasant scene occurred on the edge of Ringmoor Down high up at the top of Portland Lane in Sheepstor - a place where I had never previously seen such creatures.

But then, this year seems to us to have been particularly noteworthy for the increased activity in wildlife around our home and a growing number of rare and unusual visitors.

Since springtime we have been treated to the wonderful sight of a pair of roe deer emerging daily from the wood behind our cottage to nibble at the foliage on our backgarden hedge - something we have never witnessed here before. The male, followed by his female companion, appears first in the early morning and then again in the evening to feed on the greenery as they make their regular perambulation through the woods at Burrator.

And this year has seen an absolute proliferation of pheasants. Many of our friends have also reported an abundance of such visitors since the year of foot and mouth which kept us all off the moors and perhaps encouraged the birds to expand their territories down to our gardens and woodlands.

We have had two cock pheasants and a whole harem of their lady-friends regularly calling at our doorstep to be fed with a handful of corn - to the point where we can hardly go into the garden without a pheasant dashing up to our feet in a hurried waddle of enthusiasm.

On the day I saw the stoats, I returned home eager to boast to my wife of the rare sighting I had enjoyed that morning. “That’s nothing,” she said. “I saw one at Yelverton the other day.” In broad daylight she had witnessed a stoat scamper across the green in front of the shops then dash across the road and head off in the direction of Harrowbeer Lane.

Perhaps it had been to collect its ‘divvy’ from the Co-op.

Editor’s note: Are there any unusual ‘goings-on’ in and around your gardens? Share your wildlife notes with us by writing to the Burrator Beacon.

Devon County Council has called for an urgent “round-table” summit to discuss the lack of affordable housing in the county.

The call to bring together housing experts, developers and planning authorities came from the Council’s Cabinet - the Executive Committee - during a debate on revised housing numbers within the Devon Structure Plan.

With house prices booming, the numbers of social housing properties being eroded through “Right to Buy” and large numbers of “second homes” and holiday properties in the county, there is growing concern that local people are finding it increasingly difficult to enter the housing market or find affordable rented homes.

The round-table meeting is expected to take place as soon as possible in the Autumn.

Meavy Parish Hall is holding a Quiz Evening on Friday 11th October at 7.30 pm in aid of Hall funds. A team of four costs just £6 which includes a free glass of wine on arrival. Refreshments on sale on the night.

To book a table please ring Fiona on 854311.

Meet Your Councillors:  

Graham Palmer

I am the third generation of my family to serve on the Council, even though I had no desire to join until I was so vexed once by a Council decision I duly got myself co-opted on, representing Walkhampton. That was 12 years ago.

I am currently the Chairman of the Planning Committee and I am also a Parish Council Emergency Officer for Sheepstor.

After leaving Tavistock school at 16 to work on the family farm at Sheepstor I then gained employment in the motor trade and haulage industry for a number of years. I had just landed a super job working for a truck dealership chain in the USA - intended to give my planned career as a commercial pilot a very large boost - when I was struck down by a severe bout of Glandular fever, which brought me to a grinding halt and my world came crashing down around me.

I returned to the farm while I faced a long and very often painful recovery and eventually I took over the running of the farm when my father died in 1996, only to be left with the long running dispute over tenancy rights with our Landlord, a large well known water company - but I mention no names.

Things came to a head in 1999 when the company seized our cattle and we were forced to call it a day after battling it out for 25 years. I was faced with the heart-breaking task of selling up most of our stock, so now we have just a few sheep and cattle which isn't a very viable option.

It’s funny though how when one door closes another one opens and in the autumn of 2000 I was selected by the United Kingdom Independence Party as a parliamentary candidate for the 2001 General Election. I suppose I have always been a bit of a rebel; if I don’t like something I have a go at changing it, but never just lie down and take it. I didn’t win a seat this time, but as they say, “If at first you don’t succeed they try again” and anyone that knows me will tell you, I’m a very trying person!

My favourite sport is Moto Cross, but these days I tend to ride my horse instead of bikes.

David Hooper

Though both my parents were Devonians, I was born at Gravesend in 1938 where my father was a Customs Officer. Being in the Naval Reserve he was called up at the start of the war and my mother, sister and I went to stay with relatives in Salcombe where we spent the war years and I started my education.

At the end of the war we returned to Gravesend but in 1953 we came to Plymouth. By this time I had decided that I wanted to join the Merchant Navy as an Engineer Officer and the route to this ambition lay through the Dockyard where I would obtain the necessary grounding in heavy engineering. I completed my apprenticeship in 1959 and joined the Merchant Navy as a Junior Engineer.

In the early 60’s I met and married my wife who at the time lived in Tavistock. Initially we lived in Plymouth but returned to Tavistock in 1971 and by this time I was a Chief Engineer Officer at sea. In 1980 I was offered a management post at Chatham and we moved to Portsmouth where unfortunately my wife was killed in a road accident.

In 1985 I was transferred to Bath but my son remained at Portsmouth where he is married with one daughter. After a period at Bath in 1989 I was transferred to Plymouth and bought my present home in Dousland with Jill. However things are never settled and I was moved back to Bath in 1994 and only returned home at weekends until 1998 when I retired. Since retiring I have resumed walking on Dartmoor, which I started to enjoy during my apprenticeship, and gliding with Dartmoor Gliding Society at Brentor.

I was co-opted onto the Parish Council in 2001 and I am currently serving on the Royal Oak Inn Committee and also the Finance and Planning Committees; I am a Council representative on Meavy Hall Committee and a Parish Emergency Officer.

Obituaries

It is with regret that we record the passing of the following:-

Dorothy Lucas - Buried at Walkhampton on June 25th.

William (Bill) Humphrey Grant Sprott - Service held at Walkhampton Church on August 16th followed by cremation at Efford.

Graham Ledger - Thanksgiving service at Meavy Church August 20th

Doris Piper - Funeral Service at Sheepstor Church September 13th

Our heartfelt condolences go to their families.

Winter practice starts at Meavy Parish Hall on Wednesday September 25th at 8pm. New dancers would be very welcome. No experience necessary, the only qualification required is a sense of humour! We would also welcome new musicians - don't be shy, you can come and make your mistakes with us! We guarantee no one will notice - we are all too busy making our own mistakes!!

For more information, call Lis Richards on 01822 853850, or Steve Newland on 01822 610412. No commitment to dance or play - just come and watch, or join us in the Royal Oak pub after a session (at about 10pm) for a chat and a drink.

Also visit our Web site  www.dartmoorbordermorris.internet-today.co.uk;
or email us at dartmoor.border@internet-today.co.uk.

Dartmoor Border Morris in action at the Sheepstor Jubilee Jamboree

Photo taken by Keith Scrivener

Letters to the Editor

From Stella Shaw

Nothing to mark the Queen’s 50th Jubilee

I write as a 74-year-old parishioner of Meavy who was born and lived there until just 6 years ago. I was Post Mistress of Meavy for 34 years, Chairman of Meavy Ladies Committee for well over 20 years, and I served on the Parish Hall Committee, Parish Council, School PTA, and the Oak Fair Committee.

I want to express my great disappointment that the Parish of Burrator did nothing to mark the Queen’s 50th Jubilee. In the past, similar events have been celebrated in Grand Village style, with children first and foremost in people’s minds. They have received mugs to commemorate Royal occasions, provided by the Parish Council, and teas have been organised. I have happy memories of celebrations in 1937, 1953, and 1977, when local children had great fun.

I really feel that by overlooking this milestone of the Queen being on the throne for 50 years the Parish Council has let the community down, especially as such a small village as Sheepstor could manage a grand celebration.

If the Council had called an open meeting before the time, people would have all got together and organised something.

I have no doubt that if Elizabeth Hopson and Sue Delooze had still been on the Council, things would have turned out very differently.

The Council Chairman Ann Ellis replies

I feel that Mrs Shaw has articulated the views of several members of the parish. Therefore, the topic will be discussed at the next full Parish Council meeting, at the end of September.

The year is not over yet, so it is still possible to mark the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. Well done to the people of Sheepstor who held their own celebrations for the event.

Any suggestions, ideas or stratagem would be appreciated and can be conveyed to your local Councillor, or the Clerk, or by attending the meeting.

Though the Council is always willing to support such activities, it is helpful for some community initiative, to get the ball rolling.

From K. Maurice

Could I just put a reminder to people in your magazine that on a fine sunny day, neighbours may not always relish the smell of smoke from a bonfire ruining either the children’s picnic in the garden or the al fresco meal. Having to pick in a lineful of washing at 11 o’clock in the morning and close all house windows doesn’t go down very well either!

So I would ask local residents to be more considerate and light the bonfires as late in the day as possible so that we can ALL enjoy the fine weather.

Walkhampton Show 2002

August Bank Holiday Saturday

Mike Dobson

This year’s show was not only blessed with magnificent weather but also with the largest number of entries ever recorded. Despite the pessimistic pronouncements of local gardeners over the poor weather early in the season, exhibits in the Vegetable classes were at the same level as last year, while those in the Flower classes were up by more than 40%. Large increases were seen in the cookery classes as well.

The village Hall was filled with entries of a very high standard and the Show was supported by a Village Fun Day and a cricket match on the Memorial Field. At the end of the Show cups and prizes were presented by the joint Presidents of the Cottage Garden Society, Mr. George Eggins and Miss Dorothy Eggins.

The Society would like to thank all those who helped in the success of this year’s Show - Exhibitors, Visitors, Helpers and a very good Committee who worked so hard not only to keep the Show going but to make it such a success.

We are pleased to announce that we are presenting an additional show in aid of Walkhampton Church and Dartmoor Rescue Group. This will be held in Walkhampton Memorial Hall over three days - 29th, 30th November and 1st December.

Both these local charities are close to the community and always in need of funds. The Rescue Group is currently funding the provision of a Desk Top photocopier for the team’s Rescue Control vehicle and for further IT equipment. The church is in need of funds for repairs to the floor of the Bell Tower.

Local artists, Robin Armstrong, Alan Clark and Alan Kingwell have kindly agreed to donate examples of their work which will be raffled in a Grand Christmas Draw to be held on Sunday 1st December at the show.

There will be a preview evening on Friday 29th November with wine and cheese from 8pm. Tickets will be available from us and other local sources for £5 a head.

Many Christmas craft goods including decorations and cards should be available and a choice of over 450 pictures - gifts for your friends or perhaps a special self indulgence!

Please come along and help to support local causes.

For further information contact Michael D’Oyly  on Tel. 01822 852268, or Bud Francis on Tel. 01822 855062.

Ted Whitehead

Burrator Parish Councillors were invited to attend the Open Day held at Burrator Lodge on 26th June. Councillors Ellis, Button, Palmer, Moorshead, Scrivener and I enjoyed an excellent buffet lunch and agreed it had been a most interesting and informative day.

Stalls and marquees were erected on the lawn and children from Bere Alston, Shaugh Prior, Princetown and Salisbury Road Schools were able to take part in various rural activities.

I was asked to judge the wildlife pictures drawn by the children and the winners were; (1)Steven McKenzie (Bere Alston) - Stonefly Nymph, (2)Kathryn Williams (Bere Alston) - Pond Snail, (Joint 3rd) Tammi Ferguson (Bere Alston) and Olivia B (Salisbury Road - my old School!) - Water Stick Insects. Their pictures were later framed by South West Lakes Trust and presented to them at their respective schools.

The Chairman Mr. James Cairns Boston said a few kind words in memory of Elizabeth Hopson, remembering her as somebody who cared passionately about Burrator and had devoted many years of unstinting hard work to the area. He said she would be sorely missed and they proposed to erect a seat in memory of her.

Meavy Flower Society

Margaret Duffy (Hon Sec.)

The programme for the rest of 2002 is as follows:

Harvest Festivals

St. Mary's Walkhampton
Sunday 29th Setember
11 am  Harvest Eucharist
Followed by shared lunch and an auction

St. Peter's Meavy
Thursday 3rd October
7 pm  Harvest Thanksgiving
Followed by supper in Meavy village hall

St. Leomard's Sheepstor
Friday 4th October
7 pm  Harvest Thanksgiving
Followed by supper in Sheepstor village hall

Backalong

Mary Stanbrook’s book “Old Dartmoor Schools Remembered” (Quay Publications 1991) contains fascinating accounts of 2 former schools in the Parish.

Sheepstor supported its own school from at least 1870 to 1923 - there had been Dames’ establishments before that. The purpose-built school, on the site of 2 cottages used as poorhouses, was organised by Sir Massey Lopes and funds included donations from the Rajah of Sarawack. The post of mistress (salary £15-20 pa) changed a number of times until at the turn of the century Mrs Arabella Evans and her daughter took over and the standard of education improved. Records show that spelling was sometimes unusual (famalies, ricitation, measels) but the overall care of the 34 pupils was exemplary. However numbers declined to 18 when houses were flooded by the building of Burrator Dam and families had to move away. A frequent absentee was Percy Ware, from Ditsworthy Warren, who stayed at home during the rabbit season and was away one Spring for 29 weeks! During the Great War numbers dropped to 10 and closure threatened as an economy measure but Inspectors continued to give positive reports. However the school was forced to close in 1923, and villagers were left with memories of “this happy little family”. The building remains as a peaceful private dwelling.

By contrast Walkhampton Foggintor school opened in 1915, spacious and well built, with woodblock floors and central heating (ideal for drying the children’s clothes and keeping their pasties warm). The 55 children and 3 staff however had a constant battle against the elements; when snow threatened they were sent home early in groups, each one having a rope, with the eldest at the front and smallest at the rear. The log - book contains fascinating entries - “Albert Mead was bitten by a viper during dinnertime”, 9 children absent due to the making of a Picture Film in the District, the girls’ afternoon lessons abandoned for instruction on “how to turn out a bedroom”. In 1932 the first of several scholarships to Tavistock Grammar School was gained but declining numbers meant that the school was closed in 1936. The building was privately owned for a while but was demolished in 1964/5 and its stone used to straighten the corner at Devil’s Bridge. Some remains can be seen beside the main road today.

A troubled Devon farmer whose fields were near the coast was walking in one of his cliff-top pastures one day, deep in prayer and thought. After a while he softly moaned aloud: “If only the Lord God would grant me one wish.”

Suddenly the clouds in the sky above him parted and as a ray of light shone down the Lord spoke to him in a booming voice saying: “Because you have always tried to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you one wish.”

So the farmer said: “Lord, build me a private motorway bridge over this sea to France. I am sure I could use it to sell all my vegetables and produce there at a profit and end all my troubles.”

The Lord replied: “Your request is very materialistic. Think of the logistics of that kind of undertaking. The supports required would need to reach the bottom of the English Channel. The concrete and steel it needs would be of huge proportions. I could do it, but it is hard for me to justify such a desire for worldly things. Take a little more time and think of another wish - a wish that you think would honour and glorify me.”

The farmer thought about this for a while longer. Finally he said: “Lord I have never taken a wife to help me in my troubled life. Help me to understand women. I want to know what they are looking for in a man, how they feel inside, what they are thinking when they give us the silent treatment or giggle, why they cry, what they mean when they say nothing and how I can make a woman truly happy.”

Now the Lord was quiet for a moment, but after a while he answered: “Did you want two lanes or four on that bridge?”

Quiz

The winner of the Summer Quiz is Master Nathaniel Rookes aged 8 of Sheepstor who sent in the correct answer (2nd June 1953). Congratulations to Nathaniel, he will shortly be presented with a £5 Jubilee coin by the Parish Council Chairman.

As there were no entries for the 12 to 16 age group the prize of a £5 Jubilee coin will now go for the final quiz which is open to everybody.

Answers to the Editor by the 16th of November please. The Editor’s decision is final.

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Burrator BEACON Editor  Ted Whitehead, 
Moorland House, Golf Links Road, Yelverton PL20 6BN  Tel. 01822 853435

Editorial Team  Anne Ellis, Keith Scrivener   Internet Edition Editor  Michael Parle

Published and issued quarterly, free of charge by Burrator Parish Council. Copy for the December edition to be sent to the Editor by 16th November. The December edition will be published a week before Christmas.

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