In Dartmoor, there’s a perfect Halloween story lurking in a waterway. Residents say that a sunken village exists under Burrator Reservoir. In fact, surveyors examined the water body and found evidence of a farmstead and road but no complete village. In the very late 1800s, the area needed a better water supply and a dam was created that would flood some village properties. The landowners were evacuated and the properties filled in. At the time there was already a smaller dam which is also now under water.

Key Takeaways:

• One British reservoir may be the location of a drowned village from the past. It has both natural and historical features that can be considered.
• Roads and a farmstead were hidden once the valley flooded back in the 1890s. A few resulting scans have highlighted those natural and historical features.
• Many have taken interest in the mysterious drowned village in Britain. It is surely one of a kind, especially in the British isles.

“resulting scans highlighted a range of natural and historical features, including roads and a farmstead that were hidden when the valley was flooded in the 1890s.”

Read more: https://www.aol.co.uk/travel/2017/11/01/mysterious-drowned-village-burrator-reservoir-dartmoor/