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Burrator Parish Council - Home Page
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BURRATOR PARISH AND ITS COMMUNITY
The Parish of Burrator is in the south west corner of the county of Devon, wholly within the Dartmoor National Park. Our lands straddle the upper reaches of the Meavy, and are framed by the Walkham and Plym rivers. The ancient stannary town of Tavistock, the port of Plymouth and the Napoleonic settlement at Princetown on Dartmoor are within easy reach.
Our terrain is of moorland, dry stone enclosed farmland and wooded river valleys. The eastern and northern skylines are broken by the granite hill top tors for which Dartmoor is famous. The granite quarries, tin mines and railways that once employed our people now exist as relics and landscape features softened by time. In the west is the dip of the Tamar valley and swell of Bodmin moor while to the south lies the gap that forms Plymouth Sound.
Burrator is a place of both natural beauty and artifice. The parish is home to the reservoir at Burrator after which the parish takes its name. The lake formed by flooding the Meavy valley at the end of the 19th century with its many surrounding granite tors, moorland and woodlands provide a famous beauty spot attracting walkers, cyclists, horse riders and those who just come to look in all seasons of the year.
