DARTMOOR WAY

INTRODUCTION

The Dartmoor Way is a well established cycleway details of which can be found at http://www.dartmoorway.co.uk/home.php The web site has promised a walking route for some time but I had in my collection of books the one below. You can still get it as a second hand book and a search on the web will enable you to track one down. It has been written to do the walk in 24 circular walks. If you want to do a linear route you have to take a section out of each walk. There was no waymarking associated with this book and the maps are poor so I translated the description on to OS Mapping. The walk was excellent and I found no problems in following the route and the rights of way were generally in good order.

The walk starts and finishes in Okehampton and I made my way by train to Exeter and from there by bus. 

I stayed here overnight at The Fountain Inn in Fore Street http://thefountainokehampton.co.uk and it was a traditional inn with a good bar menu and good beers and the room was spacious and comfortable.

I had time to look around and visited the Okehampton Museum at 3 West Street which is down the alley way off the main street you see in the picture above. It is the building at the end and on three floors. It has a tourist information section on the ground floor but ominously they had not heard of the Dartmoor Way. http://www.museumofdartmoorlife.org.uk/ It was a good introduction to all aspects of Dartmoor.

From there I walked to the castle with its ruinous keep but alas arrived just as the custodian was looking the gates for the day. http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/okehampton-castle/

This is a picture of the White Hart Hotel before it was completely refurbished by Wetherspoons see https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/hotels/england/devon/the-white-hart which is another good option for food and drink.