Shaugh Prior, Burrator and Sheepstor

This is the fourth post of my current flurry! Included in the trip to Lee Moor and Meavy was a visit to the three places named here, also on the edge of Dartmoor. Shaugh Prior is a lovely little village where my niece, Joanna, works as an administrator at the village school and where both Lucie and Holly attend classes. I they're privileged to be in such a nice spot.

Close by we saw a beautiful little stream cascading off the moor in thickly wooded country, and spent a while walking alongside it.

Then came, nearby, our first view of Burrator, the dam holding back Plymouth's water supply, which you can see in the photo below. It has been in operation for over a century in a really attractive location. The dam wall can be seen in the middle left of the photo.

Nearby there is Sheepstor, nestled in a soft green valley. This photo shows the tiny village and the nearby lake ponded behind Burrator.

The lake itself appear in the next photo, which contrasts the wooded shores and the open moors above.

Finally, I show some of the many wild horses that room the moors and their surrounds, much as the New Forest ponies did in an earlier post.

So, all in all, it was a lovely day in pleasant weather.

AS