Burrator Reservoir Claimed

With miles of paths and moorland to explore, including an easy access 1.5 km wildlife trail in the Arboretum suitable for wheelchairs and pushchairs

Burrator Reservoir is a reservoir on the south side of Dartmoor near Yelverton and is one of a number of reservoirs and dams that were built over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries in the area by Dartmoor National Park to supply drinking water to the city of Plymouth. Burrator Reservoir was completed in 1898, and expanded in 1929. The reservoir has two dams, the Burrator Dam, which is built across the River Meavy at Burrator Gorge at the south-western end, and the Sheepstor Dam built on a dividing ridge between the Meavy and Sheepstor Brook at the south-eastern end. The Burrator Dam was the first of the two to be built, with construction starting on 9 August 1893, and the more massive of the two dams, constructed of concrete faced with granite blocks. The Sheepstor Dam was built in 1894 and is an earth embankment with a core wall of puddled clay above the original ground level, with a concrete section below ground. The reservoir was officially opened on 21 September 1898.  In 1923 it was decided to enlarge the capacity from