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Trenchford Stream Weir
Slade Rocks Quarry
Notes: Slade Rocks is the name given to the sprawling rock field of emergent outcrops in Kennick Copse, on the south-west edge of Kennick Reservoir. At the rocks’ eastern terminus is this quarry, now a car park, which shows a buried tor. Tithe Maps show both ‘Slade Rock’ and ‘Slade Rocks’ for two enclosures here but both have since become lost and omitted from subsequent records.
The buried tor is reminiscent of that at Two Bridges Quarry, which geologist David Leslie Linton described as a good example of tor formation.
Reference: Devon County Council: Tithe Map of the Parish of Christow
B.M. 0861.2, NWF, SW side of RD, on GTP (Not Located)
There are two very overgrown gateposts here but one of them looks much older than the other, possibly housing the benchmark. I didn’t have the equipment nor the time to pull back some of the vegetation.
Reference: Side by Side
B.M. 0890.5, WF, E side of RD
Reference: Side by Side