Dartmoor Walking Routes
Taw Teign Link
Sticklepath
Taw Teign Link is a long-distance walking route of about 11 km on and around Dartmoor.
Dartmoor Walking Routes
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Dartmoor Walking Routes
Ted Hughes Poetry Trail
Teigngrace
Ted Hughes Poetry Trail is a short walking route of about 3.1 km on and around Dartmoor.
Dartmoor Walking Routes
Templer Way
Haytor Vale, Bovey Tracey
The Templer Way follows the old granite trade route from the Haytor quarries down off the moor to the sea at Teignmouth.
Dartmoor Walking Routes
The Lichway
Lydford
The Lich Way is Dartmoor's old 'way of the dead', the corpse road along which moorland families once carried their dead to burial at Lydford.
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The Lych Way (Lich Path)
Lydford, Okehampton
The Way of the Dead: the old route across central Dartmoor from Bellever to Lydford, said to have been used to carry the dead to be buried at Lydford church. The exact line is disputed.
Dartmoor Walking Routes
The Packhorse Trail
Bratton Clovelly
The Packhorse Trail is a short walking route of about 3.5 km on and around Dartmoor.
Dartmoor Walking Routes
Two Moors Way
Ivybridge
The Two Moors Way is Devon's coast to coast walk, running from Ivybridge on the southern edge of Dartmoor across the high moor and on to Lynmouth on the north Devon coast.
Dartmoor Walking Routes
West Devon Way
Okehampton
The West Devon Way is a walking route along Dartmoor's western edge, linking Okehampton and Plymouth through Lydford and Tavistock.
Dartmoor Walking Routes
Yarner Wood Nature Trail
Bovey Tracey
Yarner Wood Nature Trail is a short walking route of about 2.6 km on and around Dartmoor.
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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 74, 1900“Fifty years ago Lydford was one of the most out-of-the-world and wild spots in England.”
Also on Our DartmoorFive round barrows on Black Hill — A cemetery of five round cairns, 12 to 18 m across, in two groups near the summit of Black Hill, on the northern edge of Haytor Down.
