A walk from Coypool to Plymbridge and back - avoiding cyclists! By Ron Smith, Plymouth Ramblers
START: Coypool Park and Ride PL7 4TB. Grid reference SX 52056 56940 DISTANCE: Approximately 2.5 miles TIME: Approximately 2 hours How can this be possible? The track by the railway is so narrow, and few cyclists have bells these days. Well, it is easy if you can walk off tarmac; you simply need to cross the river and go along the other side. For much of your walk you even have a choice of two parallel routes. Park at the Coypool Park and Ride, or take the bus there. Then
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instead of going up the narrow path past Princess Yachts and parallel to the railway, turn the other way and cut through behind Macdonalds. Then take the first right along the other side of the Plym. Do please note the old cast iron bridge, sadly now shut this is really historic. Built in the 1830s, it carried a 4’ 6” gauge tramway. Initially this was just to bring slates from Cann Quarry; horse drawn of course, as the locomotive steam engine had not yet been invented. When the china clay pits opened later, up on Lee Moor, it also carried china clay, but always horsedrawn, never steam. Believe it or not, the last such passed as late as a mere 60 years ago! Now you can get off the road and follow the banks of the Plym as
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