This wasn’t the walk that was planned for this weekend, originally I had ear marked Cosdon Hill to Hangingstone Hill as the walk for today. However when I joined the A30 at Okehampton, having driven through some sunshine around Lydford, I hit low cloud and grey skies. I turned around and headed back to Lake to have a walk around Hunt Tor instead, hoping to have cloud free tops at least. The day was mostly free of cloud, just, however the sun never came out and as a result the day was mostly painted in the grey palette!!
| Start – Lake |
| Route – Lake viaduct – Great Nodden – Rattlebrook railway – Lydda Bridge – Gren Tor – Hunt Tor – Kitty Tor – Stenga Tor – Slipper Stones – Branscombe’s Loaf – Lake viaduct |
| Distance – 7.5 miles Start time – 11.20am Time taken – 4 1/2hrs Highest Point – Kitty Tor 585m |
| Weather – Dull and grey, cloud all around |
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Lake viaduct
Views to the south west as I climb to Great Nodden
Great Nodden ahead
Great Nodden summit with Arms Tor behind
Great Links Tor in the cloud behind the summit cairn
Far reaching views into Cornwall
Looking back to Great Nodden on the right with the Lyd valley in the centre and the obvious cloud line
Rattlebrook railway as I cross Lydda bridge with Gren Tor ahead
Great Links Tor from Hunt Tor
Green Tor left and the Dunna Goat’s to the right from Hunt Tor
Looking back to Hunt Tor and Great Links Tor
On Kitty Tor looking down to Stenga Tor
And in reverse, Stenga Tor with Kitty Tor up on the right
West Okement from the Slipper Stones
High Willhays is up in the cloud on the left
Next target is Branscombe’s Loaf
Meldon Reservoir from Branscombe’s Loaf
Yes Tor out of the cloud and Branscombe’s Loaf in the foreground
Sourton Tor from the Corn Ridge
Great Nodden and drama in the sky
Strip of green between the brown as I head down to the viaduct again
Brent Tor and Kit Hill and a pink glow as I reach the viaduct at Lake and the car
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It may have been grey but it still made for some awesome photos! I find the best walks are the unplanned one sometimes. 🙂
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A lovely area for walking with lots of high ground. Not far from Lydda Bridge lies the site of a fatal Flying Fortress crash in 1943. Wondered if you visited it on the walk and could give directions as I’d like to get there some day and I understand it’s not marked.
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There is a small plaque there apparently, both legendary dartmoor (search on that website for dartmoor aircraft crash sites) and heritage gateway mention the site. Legendary dartmoor has a photo or two of the site and Heritage Gateway gives the grid location of SX 551 884. Which puts it a few hundred metres north east of Lydda bridge. Hope that helps
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Thank you very much. That’s really helpful.
Regards
Graham Brown
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