Dousland

Dousland is a village inside Dartmoor National Park, on the western side of the moor, close to Yelverton and about 6 miles north-east of Plymouth. It is split between two civil parishes, Walkhampton to the north and Meavy to the south, and is one of four villages (with Meavy, Sheepstor and Walkhampton) covered by Burrator Parish Council.

The village grew up round its railway station. The branch line from Yelverton to Princetown opened a station here in 1883 and closed it on 3 March 1956. The station house is now a private home, the platform can still be seen, and much of the old track bed is now the Dousland to Princetown Railway Track. Burrator Reservoir, completed in 1898 a short way to the south-east, also brought visitors.

The Burrator Inn was built in 1880 as the Manor Hotel. It once held the village post office, which ran until 1959, and it was refurbished in 2021 at a reported cost of 444,000 pounds. The village also has a village hall and a cricket club. Edith Holden, known as the Edwardian Lady, stayed regularly at Dousland between 1902 and 1910 and became friends with the Trathern family. No dated account of the settlement before the railway has turned up.