Our northern gateway The parish of Burrator is of considerable size and extends its reaches from just north of King’s Tor in Walkhampton to as far south as Dewerstone Wood and Cadover Bridge. On its most north-eastern tip Burrator advances to the very gates of Princetown. From there our boundary travels south along to South Hessary Tor and Siwards (Nun’s) Cross. This photograph shows the B3212 approaching Princetown after the Devil’s Bridge bend. Keith Scrivener

Editorial

Ted Whitehead

We are pleased to welcome the new tenants of the Royal Oak Inn, Ann and Patrick Davis, and we say farewell to Chris and Zenna and their family and wish them good luck for the future.

Traditionally the choosing of the new tenants is the prerogative of Councillors living in Meavy parish. A slight change occurred this time when two Councillors from Walkhampton and Sheepstor were invited to be present at the interviews although they could not vote.

We wish Ann and Patrick all success for the future.

Clerk’s Report

Mike Spry

The Royal Oak Inn has seen another change of tenants, the new ones being Ann and Patrick Davis. The Parish Council who own the Inn have had it completely redecorated internally during the changeover; our apologies for the short closure. The Council Chairman Mrs Ann Ellis would like to express her thanks to the Royal Oak Inn Committee for the extra work they have been involved in during this period. We wish all success to Ann and Patrick.

Planning.  Applications are in hand for a number of extensions to properties in Walkhampton & Meavy, and the application for 2 new houses at Meavy is still being considered by Dartmoor National Park.

Vacancies. Following the resignation of councillor Kate Luffingham we have the co-option onto Meavy ward of Bridget Cole, to whom we extend a warm welcome.  With the more recent resignations of Councillors Boylett and Measures there remain two councillor vacancies for Meavy ward.  We also still have a vacancy for Sheepstor ward which has yet to be filled since the death of Councillor Hopson last November. All residents living within three miles of Burrator Parish are eligible to apply, although only residents living within Meavy Parish can serve on the Royal Oak Inn Committee.

Your views sought on Burrator Reservoir

Keith Scrivener

Your views are to be sought on facilities at Burrator Reservoir by South West Lakes Trust which wants to formulate plans for an improvement programme for visitors to the lake.

The Trust held an informal meeting at Burrator Lodge at the end of February, with a view to setting up a Burrator Advisory Group, which was attended by a few interested parties. It was quickly agreed to issue an invitation to a much wider audience of local people, groups and societies which hold an interest in Dartmoor, and Burrator Parish Council, asking them to participate in the Trust’s Advisory Group.

The Trust wishes to call on local authority members and officers, relevant recreation and conservation organisations and local residents with special knowledge to seek advice as it makes plans for improvements to facilities at the reservoir.

The Trust was set up in 2000 to promote public access and recreation around inland waters for local communities and visitors to the South West region. It aims to manage the land in its care for the benefit of the environment. In one of its promotional leaflets it explains: “Many of the facilities we inherited were built in the 1970s or earlier and do not meet the expectation of visitors in the 21st Century”

The Trust hopes to seek partners and supporters to take its schemes forward, but before it does so it says it wishes to enter a period of public consultation.

Anyone wishing to be included in the Advisory Group is invited to contact the Trust’s Head of Countryside Services Mr Lee Hembrow on 01837 871565. Mr Hembrow also hopes to be in attendance at Burrator Lodge on a number of weekends in the near future to listen to, and take note of, the views of visitors to the Lake.

An inaugural meeting of the new Advisory Group is then hoped to take place in the coming Spring.

Parish Footpaths

Chris Morley

The long awaited green light that our footpaths could be reopened following the foot and mouth crisis heralded the revival of the Parish Footpaths Committee. With this came the unexpected appointment for me to lead the team. I have a very difficult act to follow, as I know many of us acknowledge the tremendous progress made by my predecessor Mike Dobson. There are three areas, which we will be concentrating on this year and hopefully you might be able to help.

Footpaths Register
We have 9 footpaths in Meavy, 3 footpaths and 7 bridleways in Sheepstor and 12 footpaths and 12 bridleways in Walkhampton.

The paths are looked after by DNP for the County Council. The Parish Council assists to keep the paths open and reports any problems. We are required to walk each path at least once a year but ideally as many times as possible. We have a small register of surveyors who I hope will agree to continue to provide reports, but it would be helpful if all the paths could be walked by many different people. Please let me know if you would like to become a surveyor. The Parish Clerk or myself can let you have a full list of parish paths for you to consider and then choose which one(s) to “adopt”.

Path Guides
Our parish paths are there for the use of residents and visitors. We therefore want to produce guides which describe the individual paths with basic reference points together with details of interesting features along the route. If you would like to adopt a path(s) and prepare some information for us, this could then be incorporated, with full accreditation being given for your contribution. Some work has already been done on 2 footpaths and 1 bridlepath in Walkhampton. If you would like to have copies to see the style of format we are considering, please let me know.

We want to also take this opportunity to record as much history as possible relating to the parish paths and bridleways, their historic names, past use and so on. Please let us have your thoughts.

Parish Walks
The other objective we hope to promote this year is the opportunity for us all to meet and walk some of the footpaths and maybe learn from each other a little more about the area they pass through. We propose doing perhaps 3 walks during the summer to see how they go. Provisional dates are the last weekend in May, the first weekends in July and September perhaps on a Sunday morning or even a Friday evening particularly during mid summer, this being dependent on the routes we finalize. All suggestions gratefully appreciated.

Please watch the parish notice boards and our website for further information.  Join us if you can.

Contact Chris by telephone on 01822 855145 or 852180, or by email at crmorley@town-farm.com  

St Peter’s Church, Meavy

The Parochial Church Council is very pleased to announce that the restored Drake door is now in place. We are very grateful to Mr Matthew McCann for his excellent work.

It is hoped that work will have commenced on repairs to the Lych gate roof in early March, to be completed by Easter. Further work to the paths and steps in the churchyard, and internal work to the Church will go on throughout the rest of the year.

Fund-raising for the Fabric Appeal will continue with the following event which we hope you will be able to support.

Open Gardens in Dousland  Saturday 25^th May  from 2.00 to 6.00pm.
There will be teas and stalls and the new Meavy tea towel will be on sale.
Please see posters for details.
Enquiries to Douglas Henderson (01822 855383) or Sarah Gordon (01822 854298)

A Fond Farewell

Keith Scrivener

Nearly all the residents of Sheepstor village turned out to say a fond farewell to one of the community’s most popular couples at a goodbye party in the village hall. Gerald and Sheila Taylor are leaving the village after living in the area for over 40 years. 

Gerald is a churchwarden at St Leonard’s Church and before his retirement was Woodland Ranger for the water authority at Burrator. He and Sheila lived for over 30 years at Burrator Lodge before moving to Moor Cottage at Sheepstor. Friends and neighbours raised a glass to wish them well on their forthcoming house move to Horrabridge.

Meet Your Councillors:  

Nicholas Waterhouse

The setting up of the Health Service brought me to Meavy in 1949, when my Father became Deputy Secretary to the SW Regional Hospitals Board, who in those bright and shining days before centralisation opened an office in Lockyer Street just off the Hoe. Not that I was a stranger to Devon; although I was born on the Sussex coast I had lived in East Portlemouth during the war, a remote village opposite Salcombe.

I have regarded Meavy as my home ever since, although the need to support a large family kept me in London in the early years. Then when Mother left to join the rest of my family in Australia, we gritted our teeth, bought Meavy House from her, and set out to make it work. My last two children were raised here and went to local schools; my daughter was the last Meavy Oak fair Queen before political correctness killed off a charming and harmless old tradition. She married a soldier and is away and gone, but her brother and two of my thirteen grandchildren are still not far away in Horrabridge. Luckier than a multitude of young people of the village who have been exiled by house prices (a problem which I still struggle on the Park Authority to reduce if not to solve - watch this space!)

Meavy is still a lovely place and the place where I belong, but it has seen many changes in the last 50 years, some of which I greatly regret. I still travel abroad to see strange and wonderful places but I return refreshed to put on Meavy, like an old and comfortable pair of slippers. Meavy has been good to me, and I have tried to repay a little of what I owe, in my (not necessarily popular) fashion. I currently serve on West Devon Borough Council and Dartmoor National Park Authority as well as Burrator Parish Council's Royal Oak Inn and Finance Committees.

Jacky Moorhead

My family and I have lived in Dousland since 1987, having moved from Horrabridge where I still run our Hardware shop.

I joined the Council about 10 years ago and have served on the Finance and also the Planning Committees, and for some time I have been the Chairman of the Royal Oak Inn Committee.

My interests include cooking, gardening and walking with our 2 dogs.

I particularly enjoy the tranquillity of the Burrator area and would not like to see it changed in any way.

Obituaries

It is with regret that we record the passing of the following;

Mrs Mary Louise Brown formerly of Sheepstor who died on January 13^th.  
Mr Paul Chesbrough of Walkhampton who died on January 15^th.
Mr Steve Davies of Dousland who died on January 26^th.
Mrs Beatrice Alice Shaw formerly of Sheepstor who died on February 2^nd.

Their contributions to the parish will be greatly missed.

Our condolences go to their families.

Holy Week Services

Maundy Thursday March 28^th

7:00 pm  Eucharist of the Last Supper at St. Paul’s Church Yelverton followed by Vigil/Stripping of the altars

Good Friday March 29^th

10:00 am  Liturgy of the Cross at St. Paul’s Church Yelverton

10:00 am  Family Service at St. Peter’s Church Meavy

10:30 am  Liturgy of the Cross and Eucharist at St. Mary’s Church Walkhampton

Together at the Cross

1:00 pm  Walk of Witness begins at Burrator Reservoir

1:30 pm  Short act of Worship in St. Leonard’s Church Sheepstor then walk to the top of Sheepstor where the cross will be set up as witness over the holiday period. On return, tea and Hot Cross Buns in Sheepstor Hall.

Holy Saturday March 30^th 

5:00 pm  St. Paul’s Church Yelverton, Lighting of the New Fire, Renewal and giving of the “Little Eggs”. Easter Garden is completed

Easter Sunday March 31^st

8:00 am  Holy Communion at St. Peter’s Church Meavy and St. Paul’s Church Yelverton (Prayer Book)

9:30 am  Easter Eucharist St. Mary’s Church Walkhampton

9:45 am  Easter Eucharist St. Paul’s Church Yelverton (+egg-rolling!)

10:00 am  Easter Eucharist St. Peter’s Church Meavy

11:15 am  Easter Eucharist St. Leonard’s Church Sheepstor (Prayer Book)

6:00 pm  Service of Easter Carols St. Peter’s Church Meavy

HE IS RISEN INDEED, ALLELUIA!

Meavy Friendship Group

Fiona Eastel

We would like to thank all the very kind people who donated prizes, and those who helped to run the Christmas whist drive, which was in aid of St Lukes Hospice. And our grateful thanks to all those who gave donations. The total amount raised was £340.

Earlier we held a jumble sale, the proceeds of which were £210. This went to the Meavy School Renewal fund.

The Committee would like to thank everyone who helped to make the events through the year such a success, and wish everyone a very happy new year for 2002.

Devon Social Group

Cathy Dent

We are not a commercial company – simply a big “group of friends” – and a community organisation.

We provide friends for people to go out with and on holiday with, and we try to provide a good social life for everyone in the local community. We do a lot of good work to help people who are isolated and lonely.

Couples and singles. All ages. We have many hundreds of people in the group!

Some people come looking to make friends, some hoping to find romance, and others are keen to have more to do. We go out to restaurants and get-together at pubs and all sorts of other locations almost every day all year round! Just lots and lots of great social events to go to-meals, walks, drinks nights, parties, activities, theatre, cinema, boat trips, BBQs etc! We know all the best places to go out to!

From time to time people also have the chance to try their hand at everything from quad biking to horse riding to bowling to canoeing! Abroad, we’d been river rafting, on an elephant safari, camel riding, scuba diving, snorkelling, jet-skiing, etc. We also visit historic houses, go on behind the scene tours, visit art galleries, arrange vineyard tours, do wine tastings, and lots more cultural events too.

Most of all we just want people to come out and enjoy themselves.

Contact us

Mrs Cathy Dent, Senior Co-ordinator, Devon Social Group, “Group of Friends”
Rose Cottage, Mary Tavy, Tavistock, Devon PL19 9PR

Email:  info@devonsocialgroup.com  
Website:  www.devonsocialgroup.com  

Letters to the Editor

From Jane Waterhouse  23^rd Dec 2001

Burrator Environmental Open Day

I did not visit the Environmental Open Day on 27^th September, nor did I do so for the days it took for the advertising signs to be removed. When I next walked through the lodge grounds I had expected all signs of the open day to have been tidied away. They had not-nor have they been in the last three months, except marginally by autumn gales. It is hard to imagine what “country crafts and rural activities” required copious use of black plastic bin liners, yards of Sellotape  (or was it Blue Peter double-sided sticky tape?), vast sprays of dead fir and large lumps of rotting wood – and how the organising “conservation bodies” could belie their name by leaving all this non-biodegradable mess littered over the attractive grassy area.

I, like many local residents, walk this area at least once a week and have done so for many years. Unlike “honeypot” areas we seldom see litter or damage to the environment. Those who come appreciate the area, bring no alien objects and take their rubbish home. Could not South West Lakes Trust have educated our youngsters to do likewise?

If South West Lakes want to know why they are so mistrusted here, they should take a look at the area below the Lodge where they hosted their “Environmental Open Day”! What price the environment in their hands?

PS  30^th Dec 2001 
Snow on Christmas night and bright sun on Boxing Day brought out the crowds to Burrator. By the weekend the area below the lodge had plastic drink bottles and sweet and biscuit wrappings in addition to the earlier litter. Rubbish breeds Rubbish!

PPS   9th Jan 2002 
Today the grassy area is (almost) restored to its pre-“Environmental” state. Residual litter is minimal and the scarring of the grass will recover. I thank those who instigated the clear-up.
Cause and effect of letters - or pure serendipity?

From Evelyn Stacey

The Director of South West Lakes Trust replies

Those who came to the Open Day witnessed outstanding creativity from primary school children using windfall materials gleaned from the immediate area - all of which are biodegradable. Sellotape and string were used to bind their sculptures together

The children were very keen that their “works of art” should remain for as long as possible and our Education Officer decided to leave them in situ so that next spring’s young visitors can look at what breaks down naturally and what does not. The string and Sellotape that caused offence would then be disposed of safely, of course. Any black plastic (unrelated to the sculptures) which blew across the grass has been removed. We hadn’t anticipated causing problems by the educational use of this area, which has padlocked gates and where the general public is currently not invited.

We’re a young environmental, recreational and educational charity, proud of our many achievements as we come to the end of our second full year, managing fifty sites across Devon, Cornwall and West Somerset. In the last twelve months, we attracted a total of 480 volunteer days assisting with conservation work at Burrator. I’m proud of what we do and I hope that you and many other local people will be able to attend our next environmental open day on 22 June 2002. In this way it will be possible to make judgements on the Trustees’ and employees’ capabilities at first hand.

I am actually very easy to contact - telephone 01837 871565 or Email Estacey@swlakestrust.org.uk. If parishioners ever have similar concerns about day to day matters at Burrator, telephone our local ranger, Stuart Ross, on 01822 890310 or Lee Hembrow who runs our Countryside Service, also on 01837 871565.

Letter to the Editor

From Bill, Sybil, Stephen, Janet and Madeleine

Elizabeth Hopson

As our lives begin to fall into a new pattern without Elizabeth we realise what a gap she leaves in our day to day existence, each of us missing her for very particular reasons.

As part of the return to some form of “normality” we want and need to say “thank you” to all those of you who have expressed your condolences. From your cards and letters, and from those anecdotes you treasure and have shared with us, we begin to appreciate the regard with which Elizabeth was held.

We felt that it was important to have the service of thanksgiving, enabling everyone to join us to celebrate her life and to remember her as she would have wished; - as an active person in and for the local community, as a good friend or respected adversary, and as a champion for her family and other causes! Your generosity enabled us to send substantial donations to PACE and to a local animal charity.

Whilst so many have been supportive we would especially like to thank the following for their particular help: Anthony, Enid and Mike, Keith and Sue, Don and Ted, Drinda and Tim, Sheila and Gerald, Sue, and Annie and Patrick, and last but by no means least, Richard. We thank him for his counsel, support and understanding. This parish is the richer for his ministry here.

Looking for a Childminder?

Rebecca Young

Registered childminders can provide good quality, flexible, affordable and consistent childcare in a safe, caring and nurturing home-based environment.

Devon Childminding Association is highly motivated, independent and a registered charity, representing all registered childminders and parents of minded children in Devon, Plymouth and Torbay. Devon Childminding Association provides support, information, advice and training. We work together with childminders, parents, Local Authorities and other Children’s Organisations to enhance the quality and status of childminding.

If you would like to receive more information concerning childminding, availability of childminders or becoming a childminder yourself, please contact Rebecca Young, Area Development Worker, Devon Childminding Association, Tel: 01822 854097

Nuisance Trees

Ted Whitehead

You may have read about the “Million Pound Tree” in the National press. It was reported that Westminster City Council would have to pay nearly one million pounds in costs to the owners of a building, the foundations of which have been damaged by the roots of a single plane tree owned by the Council. “Hedgeline”, of which I am a member, was delighted to inform me that The House of Lords ruled against Westminster and found in favour of the current owners of the affected property. This will have implications for all owners whose trees affect neighbouring properties - even listed trees. It can include damage to walls, foundations and boundaries.

At last it would appear that the law courts are putting people’s rights above those of trees, and new Government legislation is keenly anticipated to deal with the dreaded Leylandii!

Meavy Flower Society

Margaret Duffy (Hon Sec.)

The programme for 2002 is as follows:

Backalong

Nicholas Waterhouse

Writing my profile for the Beacon (Meet Your Councillors) brought back memories of Meavy as a much different village than the one we know today. It was a closer community in the late 40’s, early 50’s. Mr Godfrey senior, the lengthsman, lived in number 1 The Green and our roads have never been the same since he left us. We still had a post-office doubling as a shop. Oak Fair had queues for tossing the bale and bowling for a pig. The Meavy Drama Society performed regularly in the Hall, which was alive with Whist Drives, Flower Society and a host of other activities now low key or gone altogether.

At Christmas the Handbell Ringers came round and rang carols and drank Newcastle Brown. In summer the judges for the Bellringing Festival sat all day at my bedroom window while we crept around the house like mice to avoid breaking their concentration.

The Church was packed on Armistice Day and the great festivals. When All Things Bright and Beautiful was sung no-one thought to omit the verse about “The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate”. “PC” still meant the local copper, and he hadn’t yet got four wheels. After Church on a Sunday you were out with ferrets and nets or watched others at it. In those pre-myxomatosis days the rabbit was a scourge to whose repression all were expected to contribute; serious social strains developed when one household in the village took the view that Beatrix Potter Rules OK and made their property a rabbit sanctuary! On the other hand rabbit was known as the poor man’s chicken. Since the disease, alas, rabbit stew has been off our menus, even though the rabbits are back.

Things have changed at the Inn, too. Gone are the days when you could get a game of cards most evenings, and on Sunday evenings never less than three tables, each with at least one couple waiting to play. A Ladies’ Darts team and two Men’s, helping to bond the generations. A succession of great characters -Freddie Peek, Gerry, Derek Butland, Del Delooze and a host of others. My best achievement in Meavy was to win the New Year’s Eve Fancy Dress Competition Two years running. Nothing to beat that on the box…

Never mind, no doubt in the Ice Age someone was always moaning that the kids were all getting into this new cave - painting business, and you just couldn’t get up a party for a sabre-toothed tiger hunt these days!

Things change, but Meavy remains as always a wonderful place to live in. I am so pleased we can call it home.

Walkham Valley Cricket Club

The Club is looking for new members for the season ahead. Our home ground is here at Walkhampton and we also play at some wonderful venues around Dartmoor and the South Hams. The club is committed to playing just for the fun of it! You will be welcomed regardless of age, fitness or level of skill. Anyone interested should contact Chris Long at Walkhampton Stores on 01822 853212.

Yelverton Art Group Exhibition

In aid of the Devon Wildlife Trust 

Saturday 27^th July  10:30 am to 4:00 pm at St Paul’s Church Hall, Yelverton  

Stalls, Handicraft, Refreshments Entrance Free

Trip to Eden

Advice from Tavistock Citizens Advice Bureau

Care in Residential and Nursing Homes

From October 1^st 2001 all residents of nursing homes get free nursing care, even if you are paying your own fees. People in residential homes or still living at home already got free nursing care.

“Nursing care” has been defined as care by a registered nurse in providing, planning and supervising care in a nursing home. It does not include time spent by other staff in providing care, but it does include time spent by a nurse in supervising and monitoring care delegated to other staff.

People in residential and nursing homes will still be charged for accommodation and personal care such as dressing, bathing and help with eating.

Paying for care is a very complicated matter.

“Fed up with junk mail and unwanted telephone sales calls?”

There is a scheme for stopping a lot of these.

For letters, write to: 
The Mailing Preference Service, Freepost 22, London W1E 7EZ   (Tel: 0845 7034599)

For phone calls, write to: 
The Telephone Preference Service Ltd., 5^th Floor Haymarket House, 1 Oxendon Street, London SW1Y 4EE   (Tel: 0845 070 0707)

For faxes, write to:  
Fax Preference Service – same address as for phone calls. (Tel: 0845 070 0702)

Wills

If you die without making a will your estate (all your money and goods) is split up according to strict rules which may result in members of your family whom you have not seen for years getting something and the one you actually like getting little or nothing.

This applies particularly to a partner you were not married to (whether of the opposite sex or a gay partner) who is unlikely to have any rights at all unless there is a will.

You may also wish to draw up an “Enduring Power of Attorney” while you are still fit and well. This will enable someone to deal with everything if you are unable to attend to your own affairs.

Contact us: for more information on any of the above.
Tavistock Citizens Advice Bureau Kingdon House North Street Entrance, Tavistock. Tel: 01822 612359

The Committee

Oh. Give me your pity, I’m on a committee,
Which means that from morning to night,
We attend, and amend and contend and defend,
Without a conclusion in sight.

We confer and concur, we defer and demur,
And reiterate all of our thoughts
We revise the agenda with frequent addenda,
And consider a load of reports.

We compose and propose, we suppose and oppose,
And points of procedure are fun!
But though various notions are brought up as motions
There’s terribly little gets done!

We resolve and absolve, but we never oppose
Since it’s out of the question for us;
What a shattering pity to end our committee,
Where else could we make such a fuss?

(Anon)

Quiz

The winners of the Winter quiz are Mr Bill Hopson of Sheepstor and his daughter Sybil. They submitted 6 amusing lines, the one chosen being:- “Then Emma’s slave happy to work”.

The gift of the framed William Spreat limited edition print of St Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum was presented to them by Councillor Gerry Falvey who also donated it.  Congratulations to Bill and Sybil.

The Spring Quiz is

Close to the north-eastern tip of Burrator, just south of the B3212 and only a short distance from Princetown, there is a small hollow on the moor often filled with water. This is the sad place where a Corporal of the 7th Royal Fusiliers perished in a blizzard in February 1853 – only a few yards from the safety of town. The bodies of two Privates who were attempting to follow him back to Princetown were found nearby at a place known as Double Waters where a little stream runs under the road. In his famous guide to Dartmoor, William Crossing noted how this tragic event was recorded on a tablet in Princetown Church.

Question  Can you name the spot where the Corporal died?

The prize for the Spring quiz is a £10 meal voucher kindly donated by Ann and Patrick Davis of The Royal Oak Inn, Meavy.

Answers please to the Editor by the end of May 2002. The Editor’s decision is final.

LOGS & GARDEN

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Walkhampton Post Office and Stores

Telephone  01822 853212

There's a lot more going on down at the village stores than you might expect.  In addition to all the usual goods and services you might expect, we also offer a great deal more!

At Walkhampton Stores we are bucking the trend.  We are proving that a local store, serving the local community can succeed in an environment dominated by the supermarkets.

Thank you for your support

GO GREEN

COMPOST BINS FOR SALE  --  £12

WATER BUTTS  --  £12

GOOD VALUE AT THIS SPECIAL PRICE 

Contact Ann Ellis on 01822 854383

The Walkhampton Inn

Walkhampton, Nr Yelverton, Devon PL20 6JY

Telephone 01822 855556

Your hosts: Roger & Jan Sawyer

Email:   info@walkhamptoninn.co.uk

Abbey GARDEN MACHINERY

Sale, Service and Repair of Garden Machinery

Unit 22, Pixon Lane, Crelake Industrial Estate, Tavistock, Devon  PL19 8DH

WRIGHT WINDOWS

Terry Wright Sharpitor Burrator Road Dousland Yelverton PL20 6NE Tel. 01822 852275 wrightwindows@freeuk.com

FOR ALL YOUR DOUBLE-GLAZING REQUIREMENTS WINDOWS, DOORS AND CONSERVATORIES IN UPVC EST: 1983

MOORHEAD

Telephone: Day 01822 853610 Emergency 01822 854800

Mobile No: 07967 877489

DUSKHUNTER DOG GROOMING

Professional Caring Service with over 20 years experience

Clipping, handstripping, trimming, bathing etc. Terriers & Gundogs a speciality

For all details and appointments: Tel Linda Minett on 01822 855445

Home of the Duskhunter ‘West Highland White Terriers’

TERRY LEYTHORNE
DOUSLAND FUELS

For all coal and smokeless fuel requirements

Also Pressure Washing – Houses, patios, Drives etc

Telephone: 01822 853973

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 to be sent to the Editor by the end of month prior to publication. Next edition published in June.

Advertising

The charge for adverts is £10 per advert per single issue or £24 per advert four 4 issues. One full page advert costs £30 per issue. Adverts must be booked and paid for in advance. Cheques made payable to Burrator Parish Council and sent to the Editor (address above). We have 800 copies distributed free of charge to every household in the Burrator Grouped Parish. The Burrator Beacon is also on the parish council website, so why not take the opportunity to publicise your business.

Please contact the Editor with any enquiries or adverts in writing. Please include any illustration preferably in the form of a clear line drawing.

Burrator Web Site

Apart from providing information from the council, the web site can be used by any business within the parish to advertise and attract new business. This service is provided free of charge to all council tax and business ratepayers within the parish.

We have many businesses that could benefit from the national and international coverage that World Wide Web provides. If you are interested in taking advantage of this offer get in touch with either the clerk Mike Spry or councillor Michael Parle.

The opinions expressed in the Burrator Beacon are not necessarily those held by Burrator Parish Council. Every effort is made to ensure that information in these pages is accurate. However, the Council cannot be held responsible for errors or omissions. Including information does not imply recommendation.