Sheepstor
Sheepstor is a village, civil parish and former manor on the western side of Dartmoor in the county of Devon, England. In 2001, its population was 53, down from 95 in 1901.Photo: Richard Johns, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 44 residents
- Description: village in Devon, England, UK
- Also known as: “Sheepstor, Devon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Leonard, Sheepstor and Burrator Reservoir.
Burrator Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Jolly Janner, Public domain.
Burrator Reservoir is a reservoir situated on the southern side of Dartmoor in Devon, England. It is part of a number of reservoirs and dams that were built over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries in the area now covered by Dartmoor National Park to supply drinking water to the city of Plymouth and other rapidly growing towns in the surrounding lowlands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Meavy and Dousland.
Meavy
Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Meavy is a small village in Dartmoor, in the English county of Devon. The village sits within the Dartmoor National Park.
Dousland
Village
Photo: Pete Chapman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dousland is a small settlement in Devon, England. It is near the A386 road at Yelverton and is 10 kilometres northeast of the city of Plymouth by road.
Yelverton
Village
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yelverton is a large village on the south-western edge of Dartmoor, Devon, in England. It is in the civil parish of Buckland Monachorum. According to the 2021 census, it had a population of 1,858, which was slightly more than the 1,810 recorded at the 2011 census. Yelverton is situated 2½ miles west of Sheepstor.
Sheepstor
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Sheepstor, West Devon District, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.49088° or 50° 29′ 27″ northLongitude
-4.03187° or 4° 1′ 55″ westPopulation
44Elevation
722 feet (220 metres)Open location code
9C2QFXR9+97OpenStreetMap ID
node 304379696OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2638085Wikidata ID
Q1957123
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Sheepstor” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Шепстор”
- Cebuano: “Sheepstor”
- Chinese: “Sheepstor”
- Dutch: “Sheepstor”
- French: “Sheepstor”
- Irish: “Sheepstor”
- Italian: “Sheepstor”
- Ladin: “Sheepstor”
- Low German: “Sheepstor”
- Malay: “Sheepstor”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sheepstor”
- Persian: “شیپستور”
- Polish: “Sheepstor”
- Swedish: “Sheepstor”
- Ukrainian: “Шипстор”
- Welsh: “Sheepstor”
- “Sheepstor”
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