{"id":7192,"date":"2024-06-19T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/?p=7192"},"modified":"2024-06-30T12:49:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T11:49:40","slug":"98-hatherleigh-and-halwill-for-beaworthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/98-hatherleigh-and-halwill-for-beaworthy\/","title":{"rendered":"98 Hatherleigh and Halwill for Beaworthy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Disgracefully, it being Campaign for Better Transport’s “Better Transport Week,” the scout drove the utilicon to Okehampton instead of catching the train from Exeter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After chatting with station friends and handing over some relics which belonged at Okehampton, including the last working timetable before the through route was closed, marked “Okehampton Booking Office” on the cover, the scout set off towards Hatherleigh to conclude his refresher of the light railway that he had followed from Torrington<\/a> last August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Folly Gate, he turned into a new road serving one of the housing enclaves which has sprouted there in recent years. This one, of 23 “contemporary” units, “moments from the Dartmoor National Park,” has spoiled the western aspect of the remote Okehampton Station Master’s house. At 725 feet, the new urban carbuncle may at least provide some shelter from the wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intent on matching the 40 m.p.h. the scout clocked on his last descent from Folly Gate, he shot past the large sign for Inwardleigh, fortunately not by far. Looking back, the north face of the sign was so filthy that he couldn’t read it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inwardleigh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without the church dedicated to St. Petroc, the place could easily have been thought not a village, yet it once had a post office and Sportsman’s Arms; and the number of names on the war memorial suggested a large parish (which also includes Folly Gate). The names are of the 1914-18 dead only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n