IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
The Acre, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ13 8BQ

The leat shown in Image finds its way beneath a wall and onto Hore Hill, which is how http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/chagford-caa.pdf describes Chagford Open Field, as the notice on the gate has it. The leat, which can be seen crossing the field in the background (see Image) was used for irrigation.

Chagford Footpath 15 runs past this house before reaching Hore Hill field; the gate is shown in Image The leat is hard to see in the shadow.

The lane leads to a path which leads to Pagley Common which is open access land.

A leat runs along the foot of a granite wall and heads out from New Street to cross Hore Hill field. The vertical slot in the granite block at lower right shows where a sluice board would have fitted. See also Image

Brook House, complete with a brook at the bottom of the garden.

The leat shown in Image makes its way along the contour of Hore Hill, the sloping field that runs behind the houses on the west side of New Street. It is clearly carefully maintained.

This feature is preserved beside New Street. Metal fittings show where a miniature sluice would have been used to prevent water escaping. From http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/chagford-caa.pdf : "leats were and still are a particular important feature of Chagford ... {They} were cut to serve a variety of purposes, from providing the power for the various mills situated in the town, as an early town water supply, providing additional power for the electricity station, and to bring water to the four open fields situated to the west of New Street." Most are now culverted.

On the corner of Stannary Place. On the left is a leat.

With a 'live' leat on the right, which apparently flowed - or still flows, in culvert - to Mill Street. It looks too insignificant to power waterwheels, and may have been a potwater/water supply leat