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Lustleigh Lustleigh inn. picture-postcard W a l y o L y i M t r t a e L Park o Station Road Road Station F R church, thatched cottages and a a and cottages thatched church, Marsh Marsh Mill o y BOVEY TRACEY BOVEY r e l e d picturesque with a fine medieval medieval fine a with picturesque S a r t B r The village is small and and small is village The e e t C St Hind LUSTLEIGH o PARKE o E Way Monks m a s t e e t t r S b e t e L e r products to the wider world. world. wider the to products a t n S e y local businesses to distribute their their distribute to businesses local r 2 a 8 T r o 3 other and Pottery Bovey The u M g h A L a Lane Furzleigh but by providing the means for for means the providing by but n e Ü Moretonhampstead increasing the number of visitors visitors of number the increasing wealth of the town, not only by by only not town, the of wealth Wray Valley Trail Valley Wray The railway greatly enhanced the the enhanced greatly railway The Moretonhampstead and is now a Heritage Centre. Centre. Heritage a now is and and heads gently up hill towards Lustleigh and and Lustleigh towards hill up gently heads and Exploring the the Exploring building has been well-preserved well-preserved been has building the car park and goes through Mill Marsh Park Park Marsh Mill through goes and park car the the Wray Valley Trail. The station station The Trail. Valley Wray the Road, (TQ13 9SB). The trail starts from opposite opposite from starts trail The 9SB). (TQ13 Road, and is at the southern end of of end southern the at is and there is a large car park at Station Station at park car large a is there Tracey Bovey From one of the gateways to Dartmoor Dartmoor to gateways the of one Moretonhampstead or Bovey Tracey. Bovey or Moretonhampstead The little market town is known as as known is town market little The Dartmoor Story Dartmoor The best place to start the Wray Valley Trail is from from is Trail Valley Wray the start to place best The TRACEY BOVEY Starting the trail the Starting Trail the along Places Out on the Trail Enjoy the quiet beauty of the Wray Valley Trail. By using the trail you will be travelling in the footsteps of the Victorians. If you look carefully you can see the remnants of the railway. A 7 mile (11km) mainly traffic-free route from Bovey Tracey to Moretonhampstead follows the dismantled railway line through the National Trust Parke Estate and past the picturesque village of Lustleigh. There is an on-road section in Lustleigh, which is narrow and hilly, so please take extra care and consider others. Tales from the Rails Audio Trail The railway would have had a huge impact on those people who lived and worked in the area and the people who visited the moor. Download the audio A full head of steam at Lustleigh Station trail to your phone or mp3 player to discover some of their stories. There are eight tracks to download, Victorian Dartmoor The impact on the Wray Valley each related by a different character. Look for the numbered waymarkers along the route which For centuries, Dartmoor was considered a remote The line provided a means of transporting goods correspond to the numbered story. and desolate place rarely visited by outsiders. Those such as timber, livestock and agricultural produce to whose curiosity led them to explore this mysterious a much wider market. Businesses such as the Bovey Find out more area were recommended to employ a guide in order Pottery grew in size and importance, and the railway to avoid the perceived dangers inherent in the enabled coal and other commodities to be brought You can discover more landscape. in for domestic and industrial use. about the Victorians on Dartmoor by visiting However, artists and writers were inspired by the Dartmoor became fashionable with tourists, and colours, clear air and restful atmosphere of Lustleigh enterprising hoteliers and innkeepers organised • The Dartmoor Story website Cleave and the surrounding area. “No tourist in lovely excursions onto the Moor via horse-drawn www.dartmoor.gov.uk/wrayvalley Devon will have seen the choicest of its beauties who charabancs. Affluent new residents also moved • National Park Visitor Centres at Haytor, fails to make acquaintance with the route of the into the Valley, while the railway offered new Postbridge or Princetown Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway” opportunities for local people to work and visit • The Bovey Tracey Heritage Centre, based in the (The Western Times reported in 1866). further afield. Old Railway Station at St John’s Lane, The coming of the railway As road transport increased in popularity, the line Bovey Tracey, TQ13 9GP was seen as no longer economic, closing to passenger • Lustleigh Community Archive, The Old Vestry, In August 1858, a number of local landowners and traffic in March 1959, before closing completely Lustleigh. www.lustleigh-society.org.uk entrepreneurs met together to plan a line from between Bovey Tracey and Moretonhampstead in You can purchase the book In the Footsteps of the Newton Abbot to Moretonhampstead. 1964. Victorians from The Lustleigh Society or Amazon The line was completed and formally opened on 26th June 1866. Excitement was great and people Bovey Tracey Heritage turned out along the route to see this new spectacle. Centre can be found in Stay Safe and enjoy Dartmoor In Moretonhampstead the streets were decorated, the old station buildings bands played and over 2,000 men, women and in Bovey Tracey. There Make your trip to Dartmoor National Park an children were treated to a street party. is something to interest enjoyable experience, stay safe and help us protect everyone, including railway this special living and working landscape.