Dartmoor: Buckfast to Pupers Hill Circular (14.63 miles)

Avon Dam

This circular walk began in Buckfast and the aim of the walk was to simply get out for a decent wander into a quiet part of the National Park. No new squares were bagged, but I did pick up all of the Dean Prior/South Brent Parish Boundstones as well as some new benchmarks and a standing stone! The following account is a summary, and some bits were left out.

Dartmoor: Hexworthy to Shipley Bridge (11.4 miles)

Paul on Fishlake Rocks

Oh boy, this was going to be a hot one - very hot, in fact, and by the end once we, that being me, Tim Jenkinson and Paul Buck, had departed our own ways, it became unbearable. But, before I jump to conclusions, let's go back to the beginning of the walk where, after some 5/6 months away from these two chaps, we finally reunited at the Forest Inn at Hexworthy.

Dartmoor: Around the River Avon (Part 2)

Black Tor (Brent Down)

Continuing from Part 1, I pushed on to Waterfoot Clatter (SX 680 653), an area of clitter first described by Eric Hemery, although only briefly on page 317 (it is also labelled in a photograph on page 314). All I can say is the rocks are more impressive than Ryder's Rocks across the river, and the view of Avon Dam is quite spectacular.