Stover Canal

The Stover Canal was built by James Templer to connect his ball clay works to the tidal River Teign at Teignmouth. When his son George Templer opened the Haytor Granite Tramway in 1820, the canal became the next stage in the granite's journey: stone quarried at Haytor and Holwell descended the ten-mile tramway, a drop of around 1,300 feet, to a basin at Ventiford, where it joined the canal for the journey on to Teignmouth New Quay.

From Teignmouth the stone was shipped on, including to London for the new London Bridge, completed in 1831. Granite traffic on the canal ran alongside its older ball-clay trade until the Haytor quarries closed in 1858. Sections of the canal survive today, along with the dry granite-sett trackbed of the tramway terminus at Ventiford Basin.