The Devonport leat is an amazing piece of engineering and was originally built in the 1790's to carry drinking water to the expanding dockyards at Plymouth Dock. The leat starts on the West Dart below Beardown Tor, north of Two Bridges and originally wound its way southward to Devonport 27 miles away. The leat closely follows the contours in order not to lose any height and crosses several small rivers and brooks on its way, including a few aqueducts of various sizes. The operational part of the leat now stops at Burrator Reservoir where a pipe takes the water from the leat into a stream that empties into the reservoir.
I would like to thank the Dartmoor National Park Authority for their kind permission to place this cache, which has been placed according to the geocaching guidelines.
The Little Bridges series was started by Stanthews in 2009 to highlight small footbridges in remote parts of Wiltshire. Since then the series has been expanded by others all over the country and starting to spread fast. There is a stats listing run by Bloodsock, so you can see how many Little Bridges you have found, you can find it here:- https://littlebridgesseries.wordpress.com/ . If you would like to add to the series, please contact Stan on stanthews@aol.com and he will give you a number for your bridge, to qualify, the bridge must be a foot bridge too small for vehicles, please make sure your title exactly matches “Little Bridges # xxxx then the name” including spaces so it will get picked up and added to stats list.