cycle routes Dartmoor / Cornwall

[Jim Roberts]

hi everyone. We are looking for easy traffic free routes
on Dartmoor. We seem to remember from many years ago that
there was on near Princetown. Suggestions or links would
be welcome.

Same for Cornwall would also be helpfull

Carol & Jim R 50 + newbies

[Tumbleweed]

"Jim Roberts" <jim@jimrob48.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> hi everyone. We are looking for easy traffic free routes
> on Dartmoor. We seem to remember from many years ago that
> there was on near Princetown. Suggestions or links would
> be welcome.
>
> Same for Cornwall would also be helpfull
>
> Carol & Jim R 50 + newbies
>

This months Cycling Plus has a Dartmoor route in it.

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[Burt]

"Jim Roberts" <jim@jimrob48.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:cbov6v$mea$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
> hi everyone. We are looking for easy traffic free routes
> on Dartmoor. We seem to remember from many years ago that
> there was on near Princetown. Suggestions or links would
> be welcome.
>
> Same for Cornwall would also be helpfull
>
> Carol & Jim R 50 + newbies

Have you tried joining the CTC and asking their very
excellent touring department?

[Pete @ Eclipse]

After much time and effort, I've decided to make available
my book of cycle routes on Dartmoor. If you download my book
you take your own risks and accept your own liability. I
accept none and keep my copyright. All I ask in return is an
email if you try the routes out and enjoy them. Click here
for a Dartmoor Dozen.

http://www.eclipse.co.uk/pbuckley/Dartmoor%20Dozen.pdf

"Jim Roberts" <jim@jimrob48.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> hi everyone. We are looking for easy traffic free routes
> on Dartmoor. We seem to remember from many years ago that
> there was on near Princetown. Suggestions or links would
> be welcome.
>
> Same for Cornwall would also be helpfull
>
> Carol & Jim R 50 + newbies

[Kirby James]

Hi,

Try the links at
http://www.devon.gov.uk/leisure_cycle_routes I would recommend:-

(1) Devon: The Granite Way - an old railway rack from
Okehampton to Lydford - around the NW edge of the Moor.
(2) Devon: The Plym way - an old railway track north from
Plymouth to the edge of the Moor.
(3) Devon: The Tarka Trail - another railway trail north and
south of Bridgewater.
(4) Cornwall: The Camel Trail - inland from Padstow.

Rather more energetic.

(5) Devon: The Miltary Road south from Okehampton up to
almost the highest point of the Moor - a bit of a shock
if you're not used to hills.

The Princeton route you're thinking about runs along the
line of another old railway west from Princetown. There is
an excellent Harvey map which shows all the approved tracks
on the Moor - and colour codes their difficulty.

Regards

Kirby

burt <burtthebike@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Jim Roberts" <jim@jimrob48.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:cbov6v$mea$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > hi everyone. We are looking for easy traffic free routes
> > on Dartmoor. We seem to remember from many years ago
> > that there was on near Princetown. Suggestions or links
> > would be welcome.
> >
> > Same for Cornwall would also be helpfull
> >
> > Carol & Jim R 50 + newbies
>
> Have you tried joining the CTC and asking their very
> excellent touring department?
> >
> >
>

[G.Harman]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:07:25 +0100, "Kirby James"
<margaret@jamesk.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Try the links at
>http://www.devon.gov.uk/leisure_cycle_routes I would recommend:-
>
>
>(3) Devon: The Tarka Trail - another railway trail north
> and south of Bridgewater.

>Rather more energetic.
>
>(5) Devon: The Miltary Road south from Okehampton up to
> almost the highest point of the Moor - a bit of a shock
> if you're not used to hills.
>
Finding the new super metropolis of Bridgewater has
swallowed up my ancestral home since I was there last week
has given me a bigger shock.
G.Harman

[Nick Kew]

In article <cbq194$ll1$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>,
"Kirby James" <margaret@jamesk.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

> (2) Devon: The Plym way - an old railway track north from
> Plymouth to the edge of the Moor.

followed by lunch at the Skylark pub - not so bad. Then on
to Burrator reservoir and thence up to Princetown and, if
you were too early for lunch at Clearbrook, the Plume of
Feathers at Princetown instead, But that's all walking
distance ... on a bike, continue across the moors in the
afternoon ....

For a little bit of a novelty, don't miss the tidal ford at
Lopwell Dam. You can cross it without getting the feet wet
at low tide, yet it's a good swim at high tide. Follow it
with a pub lunch at Bere Ferrers. Then perhaps across the
Tamar by the Calstock Ferry at high tide, with more
opportunities to eat well ...

The river valleys here are far steeper, more challenging,
and indeed more scenic than the open moors.

> The Princeton route you're thinking about runs along the
> line of another old railway west from Princetown.

I mostly try to avoid that one. It's scenically relatively
dull (though certainly interesting in terms of industrial
archaeology - it's a *very* old railway and the original
trains were horse-drawn, and it passes lots of old
quarrying works and other relics). It's also a gravel
route: the surface is plenty smooth enough to go fast, but
in doing so it becomes the worst boneshaker ride I can
think of, anywhere. The Burrator-Princetown route I
mentioned above makes a similar journey, but is real
offroad and more scenic.

--
Nick Kew

[Jim Roberts]

Hi Thanks to everyone for their ideas and links for routes.
Will let the group know when we get back from the summer
hols and which routes we manage.

thanks again.

Jim & Carol R East Yorkshire

"Jim Roberts" <jim@jimrob48.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:cbov6v$mea$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
> hi everyone. We are looking for easy traffic free routes
> on Dartmoor. We seem to remember from many years ago that
> there was on near Princetown. Suggestions or links would
> be welcome.
>
> Same for Cornwall would also be helpfull
>
> Carol & Jim R 50 + newbies