Celebrating the granite heritage of Bovey Tracey

Tuesday 17 May 2016

Granite Elements Stand

A lovely day on Sunday for engaging with the outdoors at The Dartmoor Wildlife Festival at Yarner Wood. Viv and volunteers from the Heritage Centre ran a stand about Granite Elements, to help inform people about the Granite tramway. and the opportunities to engage with it. 


Thursday 12 May 2016

Cleaning the granite tramway

There has been some lovely days recently - Sunday was one of them when Volunteers went up to Haytor with DNP to clean a bit more of the tramway. The Granite tramway does require a bit of looking after at times to keep it visible. 




Monday 2 May 2016

Ventiford Basin Granite Tramway

We went on a reccie to see how long it would take to get to the Ventiford Basin excavation site , parking at Teign Bridge Car Park we walked back along the Templar Way, which is now the vastly improved new route, of course suitable for cycling and walking. Stopping to look at the highlights of Stover Canal along the way passing Teigngrace Lock and Graving Dock Lock and with time to read the notice boards it took us 3/4 of an hour to get to Ventiford Basin where the newly discovered part of the granite Tramway is.
A very pleasant walk suitable for people with mobility problems. 
Phil Newman who is leading the dig will be there from 14 May , but suggests that from 21 - 27 May there will more to see of the next part of the excavations. Enjoy 
Granite tramway excavated 2015