Otterey St Catchpole/ St Mary /Exeter/The Burrow!

[Jim Flanagan]

No: HPFGUIDX 4503

Burrow Farm is approximately 2 miles NE of Stoke Hill:

http://uk2.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?
X=293000&Y=98000&gride=&gridn=&width=700&height=400&client=M6&db=&scal
e=25000&scale=50000

Be sure to get the whole URL.  I'll post a couple of maps soon.

-Jim Flanagan

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, nick at d... wrote:
> > Actually what clinched the Exeter location for me was the portkey 
> from Stoats Hill which I think is Stoke Hill, which belongs to the 
> National Forestry Commission.
> 
> I've found a place in Devon known as Stoke Hill
> http://www.devon.gov.uk/library/locstudy/gazsto45.html
> http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?
X=294300&Y=94300&A=Y&Z=1
> 
> but I don't think that can be the place.
> 
> 
> This however looks more promising:
> ( http://www.exeter.gov.uk/tourism/countryside/countryside.html )
> ---
> Stoke Woods
> 
> This woodland is situated on the northern edge of the City. Part of 
> the wood is owned by the Forestry Commission and jointly cared for 
> with the Exeter City Council. There are waymarked footpaths to 
follow 
> and viewpoints across the Exe Valley. Or further information 
contact 
> the Forestry Authority on 01392 832262.
> ---
> If only they gave a grid reference!
> 
> This looks good though: 
> http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?
X=293516&Y=95032&A=Y&Z=3
> 
> And this came from www.romanmap.com
> -----
> Stoke Hill (sx9295)) is above and opposite the junction of the Culm 
> with the Exe, Cullompton (st0107) is upriver. Culm (on) Culm 938 
> derives from OW culm W cwlwm Co colm and colmen 'a knot'.  Margary 
> makes no mention of roads connecting either of these forts to the 
> next entry Isca Dumnoniorum Exeter (sx9192), or the previous entry 
> Verteuia North Tawton (sx6699).
> -----
> Not that it says much, but at least it's a reference to the place!
> 
> 
> > The description fits and it would also fit with the
> > long walk from Ottery its just behind the uni campus which is 
about 
> 7 miles from Ottery.
>  
> > Sorry Penny. I've just realised I might have sounded 
disbelieving. 
> I was but not of you. I was just amazed that in the three years I 
> attended Exeter no mention was made of JKR attending. Stupid 
> University. I very rarely read magazines no time or spare cash and 
if 
> I manage to read the London headline and catch 9 o'clock news I'm 
> lucky. 
> 
> You are behind the times... it's the 10 o'clock news now!
> 
> See... you can't have much spare time.
> 
> > Just to illustrate why I think I should have known that fact.
> > 1996/7 My first year HP & PS published
> > 1997/8 My second year HP & CS published
> > 1998/9 My third and final year HP & PoA published.
> > No mention of JKR in that time ever. Truly shocking don't you 
> think? 
> 
> No... the books didn't really become famous until 1998/99, and you 
> would have been studying hard then.
> 
> >They should have been plugging her stuff for all they were worth. 
> Even this year they failed to stock GoF (I know I visited this 
> summer) A big table with all her books plus suitable info seems 
> appropriate to me. Its especially galling when I consider the 
effort 
> they put into plugging one of my lecturers poor efforts. But then 
of 
> course it was achildrens book and they aren't as important as 
> academic tomes are they.
> 
> I'm not saying a word (re 'it was a childrens book').
> 
> Nick
> (who is not a child)