WALK: NORTH BOVEY TO FOXWORTHY

1) Departing from Moorland View’s garden entrance (with the white door), turn left and walk diagonally across the village green towards the Ring of Bells pub. Follow the tarmac drive down the hill (with the pub on your left and the phone box on your right), past some pretty cottages. After the gate and when the road turns into a stony track, you will come to a ford. This delightful spot is worth pausing for. Stepping stones and a wooden footbridge provide dry ways of crossing here although for this walk, neither is necessary.

2) Continue along this lane passing a stone barn on the left. Various fields lead off and in places you will be walking through a tunnel of trees overhanging the lane from the banks on both sides. After about a mile the track becomes tarmac under your feet and a short while later, and after passing drives to a couple of farms, you will come to a T junction where you turn right.

3) Go past a pair of houses on the left and turn left into a concrete lane. Follow this farm track until it dips down before heading up hill again. At the bottom of this dip you will see a wooden gate on the right which leads into a bridlepath.

4) Go through here into a delightful path through trees with, eventually, lovely views down across the Bovey valley. The path takes several bends and goes downhill ending at a gate by an old and picturesque house; Foxworthy.

5) Turn right, go down the driveway and just after crossing Foxworthy Bridge, turn left into a path through trees. Follow this path past the tell-tale remains of tin-mining activities with old walls and deep gullies, until it emerges on to the driveway to the house again.

6) Turn left and walk to the road junction where you turn right and head downhill. After a few hundred metres, you will come to a medieval building on the roadside; Neadon Old Hall. Note the wonderful remains of a medieval window frame in the wall of the house facing the road. Opposite is a Georgian farmhouse with farm buildings behind.

7) At the T-junction ahead, turn right and follow the road downhill and over two old bridges, one spanning the River Bovey. Once crossed, head uphill, eventually passing the lane you took on your outward journey, now on your right. Continue on, turning left into the lane you came out of earlier.

8) Follow this for about a mile and a half passing the stepping stones again and heading back up into North Bovey.