Robert Burnard (1848 – 1920) was an eminent writer and photographer who will be remembered for establishing the Dartmoor Preservation Association in 1883. In 1887, he published his first paper on Dartmoor’s antiquities
In 1893, with Robert Burnard and his family were on holiday at Postbridge and together with George French with his cart went to White Ridge to have a picnic. A photograph of the event was recorded by Burnard, showing they had turned the cart on its end to make a shelter / wind break and had their picnic next to a very distinctive triangular rock.
With guidance from Matthew Johnson, the author has hiked to the location of the Burnard picnic and taken photographs to create this ‘Then and Now’ post. One can imagine that very little has changed in the landscape (except perhaps the trees on the nearby Assycombe Hill and those of Bellever Forest ) in the 131 intervening years.
