Walks around PL21 Ivybridge, TQ10 South Brent, PL7 and PL8 areas
Local Walks around The South Hams & Dartmoor
All postcodes are appromimate start point locations only.
For local South Hams and Dartmoor National Park walks, find information links to view to full route information, printable descriptions and or interactive maps and GPS downloads. See the overview route numbered map for nearby walking routes of differing distances and difficulty. As well as some website links for walk routes across the wider area. Also visit pages for local Town and Village walks, Woodland Walks and South Devon Coastal Walks.
Buckfast Abbey to Tavistock Abbey on this long distance trail through the Dartmoor National Park. The trail runs through series of rocky tors, past rivers and villages. The route climbs to a height of over 1660 feet.
Some steep rough tracks, route takes in part of the Tarmac'ed cycle route on the Drakes Dartmoor Trail. Through woodland and ground which can be wet in places.
Burrator Reservoir in Dartmoor is well worth exploring on foot or by bike. As well as waterside paths, there is a road circling the whole reservior, with miles of woodland trails, brooks, streams and waterfalls in the surrounding area.
Easy walk with woodland sections and waterside trails, and picnic tables dotted around the lake. This walk takes you around the Venford Reservoir in an area full of hut circles, cairns and stone rows. Extend the walk by visiting the old world war rifle range or nearby Bench Tor and North Tor.
Circling Dartmoor National Park seeing many of its major sites. Passing through Okehampton, Chagford, Moretonhampstead, Buckfastleigh, Princetown and Tavistock with upland, forest, valleys, and waterfalls among the features of this route.
A walk through Woodlands and moorland walk through Drewerstone woods seeing a range of archaeological artefacts dating as far back as the Bronze Age, with stunning views over Dartmoor and the South Hams.
The Two Moors Way walking route is from Ivybridge to Lynmouth through Dartmoor, and Exmoor National Parks in Devon and into Somerset. Taking in the moor and deep and wooded valleys of the moorland edges. The walk is generally not strenous, is comprehensively waymarked, apart from the open moorland sections which require navigational skills.
PLACES TO STOP, SHOP, SOCIALISE AND DO BUSINESS IN IVYBRIDGE AND NEARBY VILLAGES
Of Modbury, Ugborough, Bittaford, Ermington, Avonwick, Cornwood and Lee Mill.
