28/07/2019 | 10 Tors on Bodmin Moor

Exploring Bodmin Moor by visiting 10 tors including Tregarrick Tor, Newel Tor, Smallacombe Tor, High Rock, Treworthy Tor, Hawks Tor, Sharp Tor and Cheesewring.

Duration: 10:00 AM, 28/07/2019 – 4:00 PM, 28/07/2019
Guide: Paul Rendell
Start Location: Blisland (Bodmin Moor)
Cost: Adults – £10.00 Children (U16) – no
Skill Level: Moderate
Dogs permitted: Yes

Booking
Booking is not required for this walk. For further information, contact your guide using the details below.
Telephone: 0183754727
Email: paul.dartmoor@virgin.net

28/07/2019 | 10 Tors on Bodmin Moor

Exploring Bodmin Moor by visiting 10 tors including Tregarrick Tor, Newel Tor, Smallacombe Tor, High Rock, Treworthy Tor, Hawks Tor, Sharp Tor and Cheesewring.

Duration: 10:00 AM, 28/07/2019 – 4:00 PM, 28/07/2019
Guide: Paul Rendell
Start Location: Bodmin Moor: Minions (The Hurlers car park)
Cost: Adults – £10.00 Children (U16) – no
Skill Level: Moderate
Dogs permitted: Yes

Booking
Booking is not required for this walk. For further information, contact your guide using the details below.
Telephone: 0183754727
Email: paul.dartmoor@virgin.net

03/08/2019 | Ducks Pool Letterbox and Fox Tor

(NOTE: this walk was moved from 2nd February)
Our Mustard Seed Walks often pop into the Fox Tor cafe in Princetown for a cuppa, and we may well do this time, but we will head into the wilds of the South Moors to find the real Tor, also visiting the Ducks Pool letterbox. This walk will take us from Peat Cot past Nuns Cross Farm and Plym Ford up Gnats Hill and over some possibly tough and wet terrain.

Duration: 10:30 AM, 03/08/2019 – 3:00 PM, 03/08/2019
Guide: Phil Watson
Start Location: Peat Cott (SX615694)
Cost: Adults – No charge, but donations welcome to Devon Air Ambulance & Christians Against Poverty Children (U16) – Free with adult, but must be able to undertake a strenuous walk.
Skill Level: Strenuous
Dogs permitted: Yes

Booking
Booking is required for this walk. For further information, contact your guide using the details below.
Telephone: 07766 735275
Email: philynnwatson@gmail.com

03/08/2019 | Hamel Down Stroll

Mustard Seed Walks are going on a stroll along Hamel Down. From Widecombe-on-the-Moor we will ascend onto the Hamel Down ridge. We look forward to fine weather and superb views! Thanks to the very excellent John Lowe who took me for a most interesting walk here, we will contemplate the sacrifice paid by our heroic airman, many of who lost their life on this Down during the Second World War. We will return to Widecombe via road and lanes before maybe enjoying a cuppa in The Cafe on the Green.

Duration: 10:30 AM, 03/08/2019 – 3:30 PM, 03/08/2019
Guide: Phil Watson
Start Location: Widecombe (village centre car park) (SX719768)
Cost: Adults – No charge, but donations welcome to Devon Air Ambulance & Christians Against Poverty Children (U16) – Free with adult
Skill Level: Moderate
Dogs permitted: Yes

Booking
Booking is required for this walk. For further information, contact your guide using the details below.
Telephone: 07766735275
Email: philynnwatson@gmail.com

24/08/2019 | Introduction to Map-reading & Navigation

The aim is to provide an introduction to the basic skills of map-reading and using a compass to aid navigation. We won’t be walking a long distance but will learn some of the techniques suitable for exploring the moor in safety. Distance is about 5 miles over moderate terrain.

Duration: 10:00 AM, 24/08/2019 – 4:00 PM, 24/08/2019
Guide: Nigel Grist
Start Location: Wrangaton Golf Club (SX673582)
Cost: Adults – £5.00 Donation to Devon Air Ambulance Children (U16) – £5.00 Donation to Devon Air Ambulance
Skill Level: Moderate
Dogs permitted: No

Booking
Booking is required for this walk. For further information, contact your guide using the details below.
Telephone: 01548 831398 / 07949 904066
Email: nigel@theunseenview.com

24/08/2019 | To the top of Hen Tor

Through Trowlesworthy warren, and Willings Walls warren to Hen Tor from the top of which we can see for miles ! Car parking at Blackaton Cross is free. The walk is moderate and covers a distance of about 5 miles. Booking is required.

Duration: 10:30 AM, 24/08/2019 – 3:00 PM, 25/08/2019
Guide: Colin & Heather Ridgers
Start Location: Blackaton Cross (SX569631)
Cost: Adults – £5.00 donation to Devon Air Ambulance Children (U16) – Free
Skill Level: Moderate
Dogs permitted: Yes

Booking
Booking is required for this walk. For further information, contact your guide using the details below.
Telephone: 07878198001
Email: heatherandcolin@yahoo.co.uk

24/08/2019 | The Boys

Informative 2 mile walk by way of uneven, uphill grass tracks to WW2 RAF Bomber crash site on Hameldown. Full details of the archaeological investigative research will be shared during the walk.

Parking by prior arrangement with walk leader. Although we expect to be back by dark it might be a good idea if you could take a torch with you for safely if it is getting dim at the end of the walk.

Booking is required.

Duration: 4:00 PM, 24/08/2019 – 9:00 PM, 24/08/2019
Guide: John Lowe
Start Location: Natsworthy Gate – Widecombe (SX720802)
Cost: Adults – £5.00 donation to Devon Air Ambulance Children (U16) – Free
Skill Level: Moderate
Dogs permitted: Yes

Booking
Booking is required for this walk. For further information, contact your guide using the details below.
Telephone: 01395 278 279 / 0796 788 73 68
Email: Lowe592@btinternet.com

24/08/2019 | Accessible Walk – for mobility scooters Drakes Trail, Yelverton towards Tavistock

A walk along a section of Drakes trail, which is part of the National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 27.
Taking in the iconic features of RAF Harrowbeer, Gem Bridge & Brunel’s Grenofen tunnel, with distant views towards the Moor.
Mainly a good tarmac surface with a short on road (quiet) section & there are some gentle inclines.

Booking is required for this activity, which is rated as level 1 difficulty for walkers and disabled ramblers.

Duration: 11:00 AM, 24/08/2019 – 3:00 PM, 24/08/2019
Guide: Andy Dunstan
Start Location: Leg O’ Mutton Car Park (SX518679)
Cost: Adults – £5.00 donation to Devon Air Ambulance Children (U16) – Free for carers and under 16s
Skill Level: Easy
Dogs permitted: Yes

Booking
Booking is required for this walk. For further information, contact your guide using the details below.
Telephone: 07557 330577
Email: dwilliamson55@hotmail.com

25/08/2019 | Visit a hidden valley

Cross the River Plym and continue to the hidden falls at Shavercombe for lunch – return over the river below Ditsworthy Warren House – maybe a little damp – easy going terrain and a distance of 5 miles..

Booking is required for this walk.

Parking is available free of charge but is potentially limited.

Duration: 10:30 AM, 25/08/2019 – 2:30 PM, 25/08/2019
Guide: Colin & Heather Ridgers
Start Location: Gutter Tor (SX577673)
Cost: Adults – £5.00 donation to Devon Air Ambulance Children (U16) – Free
Skill Level: Moderate
Dogs permitted: Yes

Booking
Booking is required for this walk. For further information, contact your guide using the details below.
Telephone: 07878198001
Email: heatherandcolin@yahoo.co.uk

25/08/2019 | Wild Dartmoor Antiquities

On this walk of 7 miles we will penetrate remote Dartmoor far from civilization, where we will visit some wonderful, and rarely-viewed pre-historic sacred ritual sites. There will be some boggy and uneven ground as we skirt ridges and valleys of the north moor.

Booking is required for this walk.

There is roadside parking available below Shilstone Tor, west of Throwleigh

Duration: 10:00 AM, 25/08/2019 – 2:30 PM, 25/08/2019
Guide: Debbie Jenkin
Start Location: Shilstone Tor (SX658902)
Cost: Adults – £5.00 donation to Devon Air Ambulance. Children (U16) – £5.00 donation to Devon Air Ambulance
Skill Level: Moderate
Dogs permitted: Yes

Booking
Booking is required for this walk. For further information, contact your guide using the details below.
Telephone: 01647 440053
Email: jenkin957@btinternet.com