Distance 9 miles
Time 3.hrs 30 mins
Guiness enjoyment rating 9/10
My favourite walk on Dartmoor! Have done this 4 times now- it has everything; riverside woodland sections, rolling farmlands and a section of wild open moorland which is Dartmoor at its best. The snows had fallen overnight and I knew it would look stunning today and indeed it did.
The walk starts at Okehampton...
and follows the river near the castle...
before we fork right to take an uphill section through woodland to the road that leads to the moor.
At the top of the climb we veer left for a stretch on private road where Guin enjoyed a play with his ball...
Next to an isolated farm which acts as an entrance to the wild moorland section of the walk. Loads of Shetland ponies about today. The views here were, as Bernard Mathews would have said had he not died yesterday, bootiful.
This section of the walks link up with South Tawton Common that we did back in June. At the most isolate section today the mists descended but was I worried? What me, experienced moorman that I am?
The pathway here leads back to Belstone.
Across farmland finds you at the final stretch along the river at East Okement (when it started snowing) before arriving back in Okehampton.
