Tag Archives: Devon

The Two Moors Way: Part 4

Posted on 24/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

All the beauty of the spring went for happy men to think of all the increase of the year was for other eyes to mark. Not a sign of any sunrise for me from my fount of life; not a … Continue reading →

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The Two Moors Way: Part 3

Posted on 20/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

Continuing our 117-mile walk across Devon, coast to coast, in 2013. Part 1 can be found here and part 2 here. In Medieval times Chagford was a Stannary town, one of four in Devon where locally mined tin could be … Continue reading →

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The Two Moors Way: Part 2

Posted on 17/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

Continuing the story of our 117-mile walk across Devon, coast to coast, in 2013. Part 1 can be found here. From our stopping place just north of the River Dart we set out across the moor towards Grimspound and Chagford. … Continue reading →

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The Two Moors Way: Part 1

Posted on 16/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

In May 2013 I took a walk with three friends travelling from Wembury on Devon’s south coast to Lynmouth in the north. Our route took us across Dartmoor and Exmoor on a 117 mile long-distance path known as the Two … Continue reading →

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The Buried Giant

Posted on 18/06/2016 by Bobby Seal

The rocks they had discussed from below now loomed before them and Axl could see, as they came ever nearer, how they were arranged in a rough semi-circle around the top of a mound to the side of their path. … Continue reading →

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Grim Day at Grimspound

Posted on 23/05/2013 by Bobby Seal

Of course we could just have driven and parked on the lane off the B3212; a short walk from there would take us directly to Grimspound.  But instead we chose to walk there over the moor from Scorriton, which made … Continue reading →

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And All the Wheels of Being

Posted on 21/05/2013 by Bobby Seal

Wheels must turn steadily, but cannot turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as steady as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment. Crying: My baby, my mother, my only, only love; … Continue reading →

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