Actual Route 20-05-18

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 10.46 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 3h 35 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified

  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 208 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 213 m

  • ▲
    Highest point: 488 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 349 m

Description

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Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 441 m
  2. 1 : km 0.23 - alt. 457 m - 19th Century Mine shaft.
  3. 2 : km 0.71 - alt. 450 m - Caroline Farm with its wall and ditch boundary to deter deer from entering. Herd of ponies were grazing here as we passed.
  4. 3 : km 2.94 - alt. 437 m - Assycombe Stone Row and burial Cairn with large hut circle. http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=45814 http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV6537&resourceID=104
  5. 4 : km 5.3 - alt. 396 m - Fernworthy or Froggymead stone circle, stone row and burial sites. http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=530 http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV6534&resourceID=104
  6. 5 : km 7.29 - alt. 389 m - Assycombe medieval farmstead built on top of earlier bronze age dwellings. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1017981
  7. 6 : km 9.95 - alt. 488 m - Water Hill burial Cairn with it's commanding view across the centre of Dartmoor.
  8. S/E : km 10.46 - alt. 431 m - The Warren House Inn with its famous fire, rabbit pie and good cider.

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