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Haytor - Bovey Tracey

Distance: 4.75 miles
Difficulty: Easy/Moderate
End points:
- Haytor (Grid Ref SX761770)
- Pottery Pond (Grid Ref SX813771)

This, the highest part of the Templer Way, initially follows the remains of the Haytor Granite Tramway over the open moorland of Haytor Down. This is a superb landscape of open moorland with extensive views beyond.

Lengths of woodland and open downland follow as it descends off the moor and then roads, lanes and tracks pass through farmland to reach Pottery Pond, at the edge of Bovey Tracey, one of Dartmoor's gateway towns.

Mileage between towns on route:
Haytor-Edgemoor Hotel: 3.5 miles
Edgemoor Hotel-Pottery Pond [Bovey Tracey]: 2.5 miles

Public Transport: Buses at Haytor, Bovey Tracey.

Relevant maps/guides: 1:25,000 scale:Explorer no.0L28 Dartmoor, 110 Torquay and Dawlish 1:50,000 scale:Landranger no.191 Okehampton and North Dartmoor.

Facilities along route: All facilities at Bovey Tracey; toilets at Haytor; pub at Haytor Vale; Edgemoor Hotel has dining facilities.

Notes on route: Easy walking almost all downhill from Haytor to Bovey Tracey; some care needed on roadside section above Edgemoor Hotel; [walking towards Haytor involves a long, steady climb of nearly 300m/990 feet].