The next day we had a good long walk over lots of Dartmoor tors. We started in Widecombe-in-the-Moor and walked up the hill. The view back to the church was picture-perfect Devon scenery:
but we were on a road, and had to squeeze against the side to let the cars by:
We were soon on the moor itself, climbing up to our first tor, enjoying the view in all directions.
We could easily see our next objectives, Saddle Tor (at the right) followed by Haytor Rocks (center).
By the time we got close to Haytor Rocks, we saw that there were crowds of people. A fellow on top was flying kites (not in the photo). It was a beautiful Saturday in July -- small wonder people were out enjoying it!
Not far from Haytor Rocks was a disused quarry. The granite from here was used in the British Museum and the original London Bridge, among other places. The quarry is now pleasantly overgrown.
| Soon after this, we came across some Dartmoor ponies, the first of many that we saw. |  |
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We walked for a while along the "tramway", the granite tracks that had been laid for the horse-drawn carts carrying the quarried granite all the way to the south coast, many miles away. |
When we passed another quarry, the tramway petered out. We could see across the valley to Hound Tor and Greator Rocks, which we were heading to next.
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After arriving at Greator Rocks, we looked back over our route all the way from Haytor Rocks:
We stopped to eat sandwiches, and a friendly lamb joined me as I wandered around taking pictures.
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| Between Greator Rocks and Hound Tor were the remains of a medieval village. It's now just the bases of walls, with foxglove growing in the rooms. |  |
We walked up past the rocks on Hound Tor. Again there were crowds, as there's a car park near by. We stopped for ice cream at the van there, with its Sherlock Holmes-inspired name.
| In the afternoon we walked on several lanes and paths through farmland. The lanes were typically narrow and hedged, and we were again flattening ourselves against the sides to avoid being hit by cars; Penny is beside the road in front of this car: |  |
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We could look back and see Hound Tor in the distance, beyond the farms we had been walking through. |
| We finished our walk with a cream tea in Widecombe. |
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| and drove back to the farm by a round-about route, through the pretty little village of Lustleigh, |  |
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| to see some of the ancient clapper bridges in the area. |  |
Then we finished the day with an especially good dinner at the Church House Inn in Holne.
