Burrator BEACON Summer 2005

Following the Dartmoor National Park presentation on the proposal to make the village of Meavy a Conservation Area, a survey was undertaken by Burrator Parish Council. The Park had asked the Council for its view. Councillors felt that the only fair way of giving a view on this was to find out what the residents thought. The survey was delivered to all residents within the larger potential boundary, shown as B below.

1. Do you support the proposal for the Village of Meavy to be designated a Conservation Area?
2. Which of the two potential conservation area boundaries do you support, either (A) the smaller or (B) the larger?

The Conservation Area was discussed at the council meeting in May. Amanda Steers, who had championed the case for the conservation area attended the meeting but declined the invitation to speak to the councillors. Given that the majority of residents who responded were in favour, the council agreed to support the proposal.

Editorial

Ted Whitehead

See the picture below showing the old mill at Meavy. Michael Parle has researched its fascinating history for the article below. What a pity the wheel wasn’t retained.

Please let me have articles for inclusion in our series “People of the Parish” - all contributions welcomed.

Among our newest advertisers is Abbey Taxis, which recently started in this area. Rob Moule of Dousland saw the need for a local facility and from personal experience I can confirm they provide an excellent service.

Clerk’s Report

Lucie A Luke

On Planning, the application for local needs housing in Walkhampton was eventually refused much to the relief of the local residents. Apart from that, we have seen a steady flow of standard applications being submitted, including the renovations to the The Burrator Inn at Dousland, - the Parish Council are pleased to see this vast improvement taking place.

Meavy - A Conservation Area? A presentation recently took place in Meavy Hall by Deborah Griffiths, from the Dartmoor National Park Authority. The Parish Council have since conducted a short survey within the area concerned, to gain the residents’ views of the proposed conservation area, (see article on page 8. Editor).

The old Oak Tree on Meavy Green will shortly be reviewed by the Dartmoor National Park Authority as to any cropping that may be required to ensure the continued safety of the area.

The new seat for Meavy Green will be placed in due course, and the seat originally made for Walkhampton Green will now be used to replace the Dousland Redhill seat which is beyond repair.

As most of you may already know, Anne and Patrick Davis will be leaving the Royal Oak Inn in October. Recent advertising has gained considerable interest and interviews of the short listed applicants will be held in June.

Vacancy - There is another vacancy on the Parish Council for the Meavy Village ward; notices are displayed on the boards for any interested members of the parish.

Chairman’s Report

Michael A. Parle

At the Annual General Meeting of the Parish Council in April, the then chairman Cllr. Keith Scrivener indicated that he did not wish to be re-elected chairman. I was elected to be chairman for the coming year. On behalf of our councillors I would like to thank Cllr. Scrivener for all the hard work he has done for the council during his two-year term as chairman.

Recent resignations from the council resulted in three vacancies. Two of these have now been filled, but one remains for the Walkhampton (Dousland) ward. The three councillors who resigned are Scott Ferguson, Gerry Falvey and Daphne Button. Our thanks to all three for the very valued contributions they made and the help they gave to running the council.

Two new councillors were co-opted to the parish council at the May meeting. They are Stephen Dey and Helen Startup. Both will represent Walkhampton (Dousland) ward.

Bid to catch Burrator poachers

Keith Scrivener

Poachers who have been shooting deer in the woods around Burrator Reservoir have been warned that they face prosecution.

Police and residents of the parish are joining forces to establish a rural form of the ‘neighbourhood watch’ scheme to keep an eye out for illegal gunmen in the area.

This follows the discovery of a number of deer carcasses in the woodlands this spring. In one particularly distressing incident two deer were shot but not killed outright and the wounded animals ran into cover where they died a slow and painful death. Their bodies were found by residents from Sheepstor. One villager who did not wish to be named said: “We heard the death cries of one of the deer in the night. The following morning its body was found in the woods just a few yards from our home. It was very upsetting.”

Deer have become a familiar sight in the woods around Sheepstor in recent years and the thought that poachers or ‘cowboys with guns’ are shooting very close to village homes is alarming.

A public meeting was called at Sheepstor Village Hall in May to discuss the problem. It was attended by a number of residents, farmers, landowners and the local Neighbourhood Beat Police Officer.

It was agreed that a careful note would be taken of unusual activity in the Burrator Reservoir area, particularly at night and in the early morning. Drivers acting suspiciously would have their car number plates noted and information would be passed on to the police.

Local gamekeepers have also been made aware of the poaching activity and they would be stepping up their observations in the area.

Anyone who has any information about this illegal activity or spots any suspicious behaviour is urged to contact PC Bob Bone at Tavistock Police Station via 08452 777444.

DCC’s Chairman of Farm Estates Committee

Cllr Alan Hosking

Councillor Alan Hosking was appointed Chairman of Devon County Council’s Farm Estate Committee at the Annual Meeting of the Council held at County Hall, Exeter on Thursday 26th May.

Cllr Hosking is the local member for Yelverton Rural. He was born in Plymouth, worked abroad, served on a District Council in Essex, but always maintained his connection with Devon through close family ties and moved to Tavistock in 2003.

He said, “I hope to work closely with Parish Councils in building bridges between the County and local communities. I have enjoyed meeting several hundred residents in Yelverton Rural and I hope to develop more close contacts in the months ahead”.

Burrator Twinning Association

Mme. A.M.Ruffier

The following is the speech made in Walkhampton Village Hall by Mme. A.M.Ruffier, Chairwoman of the French Twinning Association on 7th May 2005.

First of all, I would like to say how sorry we are that Nick has been unable to join us as he is such an important member of your twinning. On behalf of all the French visitors, we would like to wish him well and we hope to see him again soon.

Once again, you have surpassed yourselves to welcome us and entertain us. We greatly appreciated being taken to Plymouth by coach with a very pleasant and well-informed driver. Thank you also for arranging a guide, as well as Mr and Mrs Crosbie’s son, to show us round the dockyards of Devonport. This visit was quite enriching. It was interesting to hear about the submarines and the warships which are the pride of your Royal Navy. The driver was eager to show us most of Plymouth (the Barbican, the Breton area, the lighthouse, St Charles Cross church and so on) and to give us plenty of information about this town. We all enjoyed lunch at the Royal Albert Bridge Pub. The food and the atmosphere were excellent.

Today, we had a beautiful walk in the Moor. That was wonderful. There must have been hundreds of photos taken as the scenery is so unique. Tonight, you have offered us a delicious meal. We guess the amount of work that has been done for this evening and we are very grateful to you all for treating us so well.

Now I would like to thank the families for welcoming us with such warmth and kindness. It’s so encouraging that you have been prepared to take us as guests into your homes. It’s becoming rare to find this quality of relationship nowadays. It’s again proof of the strong link which has been established between our communities.

Many thanks to all the members of your twinning committee and especially to Jim whom we know is very busy, for organising this successful visit. It’s a big challenge for Jim to have to deal at the same time with this visit, the visit of his schoolchildren to France at the end of May and the visit of the French schoolchildren to Walkhampton in June, in addition to everything else. I think he deserves a long and peaceful retirement.

We’ll be sad to leave you tomorrow morning but we shall be looking forward to welcoming you at the end of May and we are already very much looking forward to welcome you to Mathieu next year for a joined celebration of the 30th anniversary of our twinning.

The Mill at Meavy

Michael A Parle

Earlier evidence of a mill in Meavy is shown in a document relating to supply of water to Plymouth dated circa 1670: “There hath been diverse years and diverse times the great want of water to the leate called Plymouth-leate: which have had water spared them by William Stroode from his Mills at Meavy.”

Tythe maps of the early 1800s show Edward Tregillas as tenant of the mill, with the owner Sir Thomas Drake. The mill was then a part of Meavy Barton farm.

In 1831 a Mrs Bray, visiting the village, describes “an over-shot mill in the village that would form a sweet picture.”

The date 1834 shown high up on the front of the mill is a restoration date. I believe the mill had been destroyed by fire in 1832 or 1833.

The mill leat begins in a weir opposite the foot of Burrator Falls, the point where Sheepstor Brook meets the River Meavy. The remains of the weir can still be seen, as can remains of the leat for most of its run to the mill. The mill leat also supplied water to Meavy Barton. The stone lined leat is still evident in the garden at the rear of the mill. In winter and other times of very high rainfall water still flows along this part of the leat, the water passing via an adit under the old stables and the lane to emerge in the meadows and drain into the River Meavy.

The miller was considered an important member of the parish, supplying flour for bread, feed for cattle and malt for brewing. The range of supplies can be gauged from a record of supplies to the Estate of Captain Hodge bought from E. Vanstone: maize, maize meal, oats, crushed oats, bran, barley meal. In its last years before WWII the mill catered for local needs, providing barley meal for farms and shops. The last Miller of Meavy was Jack Vanstone.

1861: Miller in business, Edward Tregillus (age 61) and wife Jane (age 54) with three servants as ‘carters’.

1871: Miller, Courtney Lavers, from Shaugh Prior, (age 31) and wife Thirza (age 22), living at Mill House (presumably what is now known as Mill Cottage), Miller, Edward Tregillus (age 70) and wife Jane (age 64), living at Merchants.

1881: Millers, Emma Vanstone (age 46), a widow, and her son William (age 18), both from Buckland Monachorum. Emma had 5 other children, the youngest John being age 1, plus a nephew James Smale (age 18) who was labourer in the flour mill.

1891: Miller and Farmer, Emma Vanstone (age 56) and her son William (age 28), Mill and Farm servant. Also Edwin Brown (age 19) a farm servant.

In 1943 Bill and Emlen Vanstone bought the mill as part of Meavy Barton farm property from Captain Richard and Sir George Meyrick for £4,333. I believe Bill Vanstone was a tenant before purchase. Meavy Barton had been owned by Baroness Seaton until her death in 1937, and Henry Earnest Bowden was the tenant. A rates valuation list of 1928 shows Ernest Bowden to be the tenant and owner Lady Seaton.

The mill was converted to a dwelling house by Jack Toop (of Dousland) in 1949, and Jack and Edie Vanstone moved in. Fiona and Ken Eastel then lived in the mill. In 1978 Bill Vanstone sold the mill to John and Pauline McLaughlin, for the sum of £9,250. In 1985 they moved and sold the mill to Audrey Lee who, following her marriage to Michael Frost took the name Lee-Frost. In 1994 they moved to North Bovey and I bought the mill.

Exactly how the mill looked following the restoration is difficult to discern. The only evidence I have been able to find of what the mill looked like between 1834 and 1949 is in a postcard of 1900 shown to me by Ken Eastel. This postcard is of the whole village, with Mill Cottage on the left stretching to Meavy House on the right. The Mill is shown but with little detail. You can see an image of this postcard on the internet at www.meavy.org.uk. Following close examination of an enlargement of this picture, Jackie Goddard came up with an artist’s impression of The Mill circa 1900. This is the picture that is shown above and on the front cover of the printed edition of the Burrator Beacon. You can see a larger image of this picture here. My thanks to Jackie for permission to publish this picture.

Walkhampton Cottage Garden Society

This year’s show will be held on Saturday 27th August commencing 2-30pm. at the Memorial Hall in Walkhampton. We have classes for Vegetables, Flowers, Flower Arrangements, Produce, Cookery, Home Brewing, Art & Craft and Photography with a wide range of children’s classes including pictures by computer graphics, photography and cookery.

All entries for children in their own classes are free. We have a really great number of trophies to be won as well as special awards for outstanding entries.

The aim of our Committee is to keep the show going and to do this we need your entries. So please come along and support it. On show day we also have a tea tent where you can enjoy good home made food at a reasonable price.

If you are interested in joining the Society please give a call to one of the members listed below. We would be delighted to see you.

Show schedules will be on sale at various shops and Post Offices around the Parish but if you have any problems finding one, or any queries about the Show or how to enter, then just give a call to one of the following members, who will be pleased to help.

Mike & Sue Dobson, Joint Show Secretaries, Tel: 852937
Wendy Swinburne, Tel: 853765
Mary Geen, Tel: 855887
Trish Spry, Tel: 854046

Walkhampton Fayre

Pam Kitchen

The Fayre held on June 11th to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the donation of Walkhampton field by Lord Roborough was a great success. It was opened by Revd. Nick Shutt in the absence of Lord Morley, who was indisposed. Everybody enjoyed a good day out in fine weather and the afternoon was rounded off with a ram-roast. A total of over £1,700 was raised. All proceeds will be shared between Walkhampton Hall, the Playpark, and Walkhampton Church. Our thanks to all helpers and visitors for supporting us.

Walkham Valley Cricket Club

This year the Walkham Valley Cricket Club celebrates its fifth year as a going concern. During that time, something like 40 people from the parish have represented the club, or have officiated at games, home and away, whilst many others have participated in its social activities. As most parishioners will well know, the home venue is the Walkhampton Memorial Hall field, where the cricket square in the course of the years has been transformed into a very handy playing surface, which attracts positive comment from visiting teams and first-timers alike. It goes without saying that on a fine summer evening, with the backdrop of the church and the tors, the location is magnificent. So much so that, in recent years, many of the opposition teams, particularly those based in the city of Plymouth, have asked to play both fixtures on our ground!

We play this quintessentially English game under a Scottish skipper! Our ethos is to enjoy the game, and while we all like to win if we possibly can, it really is the taking part that counts, however anachronistic that might sound in this day and age. Over our five years we have gradually built up a nucleus of quite youthful, talented players who complement the more ancient members quite nicely. We are also delighted to have given opportunities to some first timers who have found a niche in the game and are now developing very well. Although we do not have pavilion facilities we have been, and continue to be, blessed with the generous support of the Walkhampton Inn, which enhances our attraction as a fixture. You will find details of our fixtures on our club notice board in the main bar, which is where you will also frequently find many of our players! Anyone who reads the Tavistock Times will undoubtedly have followed our fortunes over the years through the reports in the sports pages.

From the community point of view, the club has been pleased to host a festival of Kwik Cricket for the small schools in the area to encourage participation in the game at an early age. This year the festival was scheduled for Thursday 23 June. I hope you were there to cheer on Lady Modiford’s aspirants! We also support the Annual Flower Festival and have now introduced an annual match against the Vicar’s XI to raise funds for the Church.

We are not a closed society! We are still looking for enthusiasts to play, officiate or help run our club, so if there is anybody out there with the slightest spark of interest, please come and join us! For further details contact John on 855583 or check us out at the Walkhampton Inn.

The Walkham Book Club

Jenny March

Four years ago my husband Len and I fell in love with Ward House in Walkhampton. “No,” we said, “We can’t possibly buy that. It needs far too much restoration.” Six months later we moved in, and hard restoration work began.

We thought it would take us two years. Three years down the line, we were still hard at it (though admittedly with the end just about in sight), so we decided it was time to ease up on the D.I.Y. and start living a little bit of the kind of life we came to Devon to enjoy. Len took up fishing. I took the occasional riding lesson, as a step on the way to getting my own horse - a dream since childhood. And I thought it would be good to join a local book group. The only trouble was - there didn’t seem to be one. So I decided to try and start one myself - and that’s where the Spring edition of the Burrator Beacon came in. Ted Whitehead printed a short paragraph for me, asking if anyone else would be interested in forming such a group. They were, and now the Walkham Book Group is enthusiastically in existence.

There are nine of us, variously living in Walkhampton, Eggworthy, and Horrabridge. We meet at two o’clock on the fourth Wednesday of each month, taking it in turns to choose the book of the month and to host the meeting. The June book was Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca; the July book will be Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. We have space for perhaps one or two more people, so if anyone else would like to join, do give me a ring.

West Devon C.A.B. Gains National Award

Earlier this year West Devon C.A.B gained Investors in People status, a national award which recognises the training and development of staff and volunteers within the organisation. Since the merger of the Okehampton and Tavistock Bureaux in 2003, much work has been done to develop the new service in line with the needs of the local communities it serves.

Mandy Kenyon, Development Officer for West Devon C.A.B said, “The Investors in People award shows the world that we are a great organisation to be involved with and will hopefully encourage more volunteer advisors to come and join our current rolling programme of recruitment and training.”

West Devon Citizens Advice Bureau is open for 5 mornings and one afternoon a week across the borough. Both appointment and call in sessions are available as well as telephone advice. The telephone number for Tavistock is 01822-612359.

High Hedge Legislation

For those affected by evergreen hedges, the legislation to remedy the situation came into effect at the beginning of June. Contact WDBC. if you are troubled by neighbours’ trees/hedges. Unfortunately there is a charge of £350, non-refundable, to cover admin costs, but at long last it is now recognised that we have the same right to light as our neighbours.

Mother Nature

Gordon R. Crimp

Obituaries

Phyllis Thornley 16th May (aged 92 years), Ashes interred at Sheepstor Church.

Elizabeth (Bet) Bailey Died 21st May, Funeral Service was held on Tuesday 31st May at Walkhampton Church.

Olive Green (nee Vanstone) passed away at Barnstaple on 27th February aged 91 years. Her funeral service was held there on March 8th.

The family lived at “Burgoynes”, Lovaton, Meavy and Olive was one of three girls, who were all in the choir at Meavy Church, as was their father, Richard who was also a bellringer. Olive married the Rev H.T. Green, Rector of Meavy and Sheepstor when she was aged 23 years and for many years was a Sunday school teacher at Meavy. They later moved to North Devon, where Olive became a Councillor and member of the North Devon Movement. She will be remembered for her hard work establishing the Forches and Whiddon Valley Community Centre in Barton Road, officially opening it in the mid 1980’s. After the death of her husband, Olive came back to this area, living at Yennadon, and once again became a Sunday School teacher at Meavy Church before returning to North Devon.

Olive never forgot her roots and her sister Dorothy, who lives at Dousland respected her wishes and brought her ashes back to Meavy.

People Of the Parish

Mike Dobson

I am a fairly recent resident of the Parish, in that we have only lived in Walkhampton for just over 20 years. However my association with the Parish goes back to the late 1950’s (largely unknown to me). This was because I came to work in Plymouth in 1958 and spent a lot of my time walking on the moors around Sheepstor, fishing in Burrator lake, horse riding from Cornish’s stables at Dousland and playing football with the occasional drink at the Royal Oak or the Burrator Inn.

I was born in Southampton in August 1939 but we did not live there long as the war started and my Dad enlisted. As a result my Mum moved back to Reading to be near her family. During the next few years my two sisters arrived. After leaving school in 1955 I went to work for an oil company in London, commuting each day by steam train, very exciting at first but the novelty soon wore off. Then in a succession of moves I worked in Buckinghamshire and Bristol before arriving in Plymouth in 1958. In 1960 I was “called up” for National Service, my intake was 60/14, the last but two of all National Service drafts. My army career was short as I broke a leg playing football and by the time I was declared fit for duty, they decided that there was insufficient time for me to be of any benefit to the Army, so I was discharged in August 1961.

Luckily I was able to return to my old job in Plymouth. During this time I met, courted and married Sue in 1964. In 1966 we moved to North Devon and from there in 1968 to the Midlands where we stayed until 1984. We have four children who have been born at different places in the West Country and the Midlands. Sue and I have been happily married for over 40 years and have been blessed with a loving and caring family. Our four children are all married and have given us seven grandchildren, much to our delight. They are living in different parts of the UK so we greatly enjoy visiting them in their homes in Scotland, Cornwall and Berkshire.

In 1984 I applied for a transfer back to Devon and after much searching we found our current home in Walkhampton - a village I didn’t know, despite my previous visits to the area. It was a great move for us as a family, because life in the village has been very enjoyable with plenty of activities. On our return to Devon our youngest went to Walkhampton School and our daughter went to Tavistock College.

Since coming to live in the village I have been a Governor of Walkhampton School, a Parish Councillor, a member of the Village Hall Committee and very much involved with the Cottage Garden Society after having been roped in by the late Buck Taylor; I also looked after Cub football for a number of years.

My main sporting interest has been cricket and I played for Yelverton C.C. for many years. Since giving up playing I have taken up umpiring and I’m involved with the recently formed Walkham Valley C.C. who are based in the village.

I was given early retirement in 1996 and it has been brilliant, though I still haven’t done all the jobs on the list that Sue prepared for me! My current involvement in the village is as a Governor of the Lady Modiford Trust which looks after Walkhampton School, still with the Garden Society and a member of St. Mary’s Church which gives me great pleasure.

All in all I feel that we are very fortunate to live in such a lovely area which gives us so much pleasure and if I could go back to 1984 to find a new home for the family in Devon, I would still choose Walkhampton.

Letters To The Editor

Speed Limit for Meavy - another side to the argument?

I read with some concern the flyer that came through my door that purported to be on behalf of the residents for Meavy - as if we had already been canvassed and here is the questionnaire for the rest of the residents just to rubber stamp the process. I was further worried to find out that flyers were placed in the Royal Oak Inn and presumably elsewhere, so that non-residents can pitch in? That was followed by an article in the Burrator Beacon Spring 2005 issue.

There was an article in the Spring Beacon, announcing planning for a Meavy Conservation Area. I assume, this will be in an effort to retain the village unspoilt from building and change? Then, in another article, proposes to change and spoil the village with the addition of 30mph signs at every turn. I cannot help wondering at the contradictory nature of the two pieces.

Anyway, I object. So much so, it has moved me to words. I want the debate to continue rather than fade away and then for us all to be told that it is going ahead without even a reasonable debate. I object, because I fail to see what is wrong with the position we are in at the moment. Agreed, it seems strange that we should have a national speed limit in force in a village, but what catastrophe has occurred to consider this change as necessary? I have not heard of anyone being run over or having had a near miss. There are no crashed cars that I am aware of, no skid marks on any of the roads to indicate that people are going too fast and getting caught out. There has been no campaigning either by anyone that I am aware of, other than now.

Meavy is by its very nature difficult to speed in. Of course, the determined will always go fast whether there is a limit or not, but honestly if you try to do more than 30 mph in the village you will come a cropper. Add to the geography of the village the fact that certain villagers park their vehicles as deliberate obstructions to fast traffic and I fail to see what all the fuss is about. In the 2 years I have lived here my son and I have regularly been out and about in the village at the school rush hour and I can honestly say there has never once been an occasion when I have had to worry. Especially significant, I believe, as it is the locals that are likely to speed out of anyone - strangers to the village drive very carefully. Just consider, do you drive through Dousland at 30 mph or 40-50 mph like everyone else? Outside of school run times, we have often walked as a family and the same is true - nothing to worry about. I am confident that when Alasdair is old enough to go beyond our front door on his own, that he is in no great danger.

There may well be a problem at the Eastern (school) end of the village where the Prison Officers going to and fro might use excess speed approaching the village and having left it. But I cannot believe they pose a risk in the village itself - perhaps some "school slow" signs might be appropriate? But then, with very few exceptions all the children come to school in a car, so the risk to them from traffic is negligible.

So, there we have it, I have said my piece in countering the leaflets and saved some shoe leather in the process. If we must have a speed limit, then of course it is a good idea - but why do we need it at all? If you agree with me, then do please let me know by calling me, although it looks as if I am in a minority of 2 - at the moment anyway.

Nigel’s Sponsored Silence

On behalf of Nigel, my husband and I would like to say thank you to friends and family for supporting him in a Sponsored Silence for Gateway Club (Mencap).

He managed 20 minutes (I did not think he could stop talking that long) and raised £77.

Meavy Garden Society

Wednesday afternoon 7th September The Garden House, Buckland Monachorum - Guided tour with Matt Bishop (Arrange to share private cars).

Coffee Morning

Many thanks to all those who helped at the coffee morning on June 8th at Moorland House in aid of Heartswell. A total of £155 was raised and a cheque for that amount has been handed over to Monica Pearce (Heartswell)

The weather was fantastic and visitors enjoyed wandering around the garden. Thank you all for coming and supporting this very worthy charity.

Bonfires

Summertime brings memories and expectations of sunny days with butterflies flitting from flower to flower; dragon flies skimming garden ponds; al fresco meals when friends gather to enjoy good food and wine; or just breakfast on the terrace and pottering in the garden. Plans can be ruined by a bonfire lit far too early, or by blaring music. Please think of your neighbours and leave your bonfire until late in the day or until the autumn.

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Meavy Hall	Val Smith	01822 855909
Sheepstor Hall	Enid Stebbings	01822 852838
Walkhampton Hall	Neil Morrison	01822 854880

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

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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 Lucie Luke 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.


Summer 2005

Proposed Meavy Conservation Area

Results of the survey