Sunday Jan. 12th. 2025. With kind permission of the Williams family, we were able to walk through The Werrington Estate, Eve and James at St Stephens for showing us around and allowing us to climb the tower with amazing views and make noise on the 8 bells, and Norman again for the history lesson at Werrington and 8 bells.

A GREAT walk/s today, TY to all that came on our walk/adventure… Today was in 2 parts … but before we got started we were asked to move some branches at the church.. why not.. we then explored parts of Albaston/Gunnislake most had not walked before…. we picked up a couple walkers along the way, had lots of good conversations, and left them as we arrived back at Calstock church at 3pm… and started the 2nd walk….

6 dropped out and 5 joined us as we headed down to Okel Tor where we had a lovely surprise by John who provided us with ginger cake and warm apple juice… WOW… He’s been really busy.. and we all enjoyed the trail around the mine buildings, (one of our group had worked on restoration here 20 odd years ago)… then Jill gave us a tour of the boat house and eventually… we arrived back at the church and watched the Bell Ringers practising which was also totally amazing.. PHEW !

Total 8miles.

NOT SURE I SHOULD SHARE TOO MANY PHOTOS.. this is what one of our walkers said…

Excellent walk. Brilliant! It was a good outing. All the usual 45 degree ups and downs and a few little pleasant surprises, for me, that I had not explored before, like the garden … ‘Stoney’ Lane,, no longer Stony!! A bit of graveyard clearing thrown in for good measure! Bits I can’t reveal, because I would have to kill you. Weather pleasant, this is November?! AND A few new faces….

Menheniot

Starting at Honicombe Manor.

A great walk from Bere Ferres train station, down to St Andrews church at the waters edge. Inside we discovered lots of interesting artifacts and read about the artist who fell to his death from a ladder when researching the stain glass windows, which are the oldest in Devon. Beautiful bench carvings, tapestries. Graves of the NZ soldiers accidentally killed in WW1, Cholera victims and more.

10:15am we headed along well walked footpaths through woods to Well Farm, onto Maddacleave, NewQuay for our lunch break, onto Morwellham along the train line, in the sunshine. Woodland tracks with autumn leaves to Chimney Rock & onto Bedford mine car park which was being resurfaced with hardcore, a short section of road down to Gunnislake Newbridge. Over the bridge we kept right and took the footpath up to Dimson, onto Station Road and back to the cars by 3:30pm .

A GREAT alternative to the train on the TAMARA WAY !

Sunday October 6th… Starting from Bere Ferres church, then onto Lopwell Dam and Saltash OUR LAST LEG OF THE TCCW.

Hope you’re all recovering 🙂 Don’t think we can top that.. Great photos Caroline, incase we forget… What amazing bellringers we met.. Stan at Tamerton Foliot ready with a hot drink as a group of drowned rats turned up…

and David at Saltash St Nics both were so enthusiastic, knowledgeable and patient 🙂 … So glad the sun came out as we crossed THE TAMAR after following The Tavy for so long..

We have a few churches we’ve missed along the way, but I think we can say We’ve Done The Tamara Way… Our way. TY Peter n Caroline for the support along the way especially checking routes and trains, tides and buses. To everyone who’s been apart of these adventures… There’s more to come …

Calstock train station at 9:20am train to Bere Alston…. Weir Quay cafe tea stop at mile marker 5, onto Bere Ferrers, visit the church/bells/toilet before looping back to Bere Alston.

Horsebridge to Calstock..11 miles, all on the TAMARA WAY.. SUNDAY 15th September.

A nice section along the track and through (potentially wet) fields to Luckett then through Greenscombe Wood to Chilsworthy, pub stop.

Uphill slog, THEN Down into Gunnislake wood and popping out at Gunnislake New Bridge and continuing along the footpath all alongside THE TAMAR…. Then we pick up the road past TV Nursery (cuppa tea stop ) before the short uphill section under the train line and onto St. Andrews Church…(8 mile marker) onto Okeltor. TY John for the info

and the riverside path to CALSTOCK.

Sunday 8th 1:30pm start from THE ROYAL Horsebridge. 6.6miles loop walk, via Sydenham Damerel and Milton Abbot and returning along the Tamara Way.

Then onto Lamerton church. Massive thanks to William that took us up the tower to the roof and showed us the ropes. Great meal at the Blacksmiths afterwards.

August 28th 2024. We were met at Kelly by Warin Kelly and his daughter, who told us about Poison in The Garden. Kelly’s have lived in this house for over 900 years, the church stands next door and they gave us a brief history. We noted the carved 3 hares, deer and Green Man.

The 6 mile walk took us along quiet lanes, across fields, plenty of stock out, and back along the Tamara Way. SWW are putting in a pipe line, all well marked. We stopped at TURCHINGTON snack shack for a cuppa and rest stop. The ground was a bit damp ( 🙂 ) along the forest track, and a bit steep coming back up to Kelly, but the sun was shining , the views amazing and chatter endless.

Once back at Kelly we took the cars a mile along to Bradstone and parked in the expanded car park next to the church and set off a further 3 miles. The track took us down into fields, we should have walked alongside the Tamar, but missed the path (talking too much) and walked through fields and wood back onto the road, a further field and lane back to Bradstone where we met the owner of Bradstone Wedding Venue, what a beautiful place. The church by contrast inside is very plain.