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Out and About with Tavistock Ramblers A lovely walk for an early summer’s day, with John Noblet of Tavistock Ramblers. It is 6 miles but can be reduced to 4½ miles by taking the short-cut. The lanes and hedgerows are full of flowers at this time of year and, on a clear day, the views are great. There is also the opportunity to visit Buckland Abbey and a couple of pubs along the way.
through a metal gate signed as a public footpath.
Park on the roadside near the former Moorland Garden Hotel just off the A386 on Roborough Down. SX509654. Nearest postcode PL20 6BZ 1. Walk down the lane, over the cattle grid, and continue past Broad Oak Farm. Go right at the next junction and just after Coombe Farm turn right
2. Cross the footbridge and go up the field to a gate. Turn sharp left through a second gate and continue uphill keeping close to the hedge. Ignore a footpath sign and continue to a gate in the field corner. Go straight across the next field to reach a lane. 3. (For the short option turn left, then go right at the crossroads and straight on at the next crossroads to rejoin
the walk at waypoint 6.) Otherwise cross the lane and take the footpath almost opposite, into a field. Keep close to the hedge on the right, go through a gate and bear diagonally left to a small bridge over a stream. Follow the track uphill through a gateway, and then bear right, away from the track towards a gate in the top corner of the field. Emerge onto a lane and go straight ahead to reach another lane.
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