SAME 7 MILE ish WALK, offered on 2 separate days February 9th and 11th both 11am start. Cream Tea to follow for donations.
Meet in Lower Downgate, CALLINGTON, PL17 8LA.
We plan to start walking at 11.00 am, the distance is just over 7 miles of varied ground conditions, Tarmac, Stoney paths, Mud, deep Mud and quite deep Mud. Mostly on quiet lanes or off road trails, short walk on slightly busier road. No dogs please. Bring something for lunch and drink.
Peter and Caroline walk leaders.
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.
January 2025 newsletter
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 !