Walking through the gorge is a challenging but rewarding adventure. I hope you like it too – we will now use it to bench mark everything we do at Lydford Gorge thus ensuring we keep it a special and magical place. It is based on how we all feel about the place and what our visitors like about it too. The Dartmoor team along with a number of Regional colleagues have just completed our Spirit of Place statement for Lydford Gorge.
Posted in Dartmoor 10 Tors, Dartmoor walks | Tagged 10 Tors Training, Cranmere Pool, Ockerton Pool, Ted Hughes Memorial Stone | Leave a comment (The scribblings in red are the remains of a previous walk). The X in a circle marks the location of the Ted Hughes Stone. A great walk but you do need walking boots, gaiters, a map and compass especially when you leave the Military Roads. The black line on the map indicates our route for the day. On the way back we dropped in at Ockerton Pool On the blanket bog we found some sundews ( Drosera rotundifolia) growing on the Sphagnum moss This contains a visitor book (which we signed) along with a couple of Letterboxing Stamps – I stamped our route card! Then onto Cranmere Pool with its famous letter boxing ‘hut’ – the pool as you can see is rather small! My job on the walk was checkpointing – a task I did with Dennis and Carey – we walked ahead of the students and then saw them safely through Cranmere PoolĪ close up of the Cranmere Pool letterbox container I have written about this stone before – see hereįrom there we headed out onto the blanket bog – in the spring this is the home of the dunlin – one of Dartmoor’s rarest birds – it is a wet and boggy place but yesterday was quite benign
We then headed from the Military Road up the Taw Valley and stopped at the Ted Hughes memorial stone. This is the view back showing Fordslands Ledge on the left, High Willhays in the middle and Yes Tor on the right. We had around 50 students and 10 adult helpers – we started at Rowtor and walked initially down the military road. This was a short walk of around 15km – the idea was to introduce new walkers to the art of navigation using a map and compass. It was the National Trust’s Wild Tribe first outing of the year with Torquay Boys Grammar School in preparation for next year’s 10 Tors campaign. Had a cracking walk yesterday on the north moor – the weather was fabulous and the views were brilliant.
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