You have now completed a triangular loop The Footpath Society is engaged in monitoring and caring for the paths throughout and will retrace your steps back to the villages and hamlets in the Parish that are & Metherell Village Hall car used by the local community and visitors to the park. Turn left at the T-junction, then area. take the right fork through Norris Membership is open to all. £6 per annum per Green, then turn right at the T-junction. person, which includes all Society walks.

Follow the road back through Higher Visit http://cfs.btck.co.uk Metherell, passing the A SERIES OF WALKS IN THE To obtain more guides: bungalow on your left TAMAR VALLEY known as (8) Midway Email [email protected]

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Norris Green and Title : Todsworthy & West Danescombe Valley GUIDE NO 2 Higher Metherell Distance: Approx. 4.5 miles. signs). From here continue downhill towards the crossroads. Gradient: Some steep climbs and rapid descents. Can be muddy and slippery In ten minutes you will be back at the Todsworthy & West Village Hall. Level of difficulty: Easy/Moderate. Danescombe Valley Type of paths: Quiet lanes, field and woodland footpaths..

Suggested map: OS Explorer 108 This fairly easy four and a half mile Start/finish grid ref: GPS: N50° 30’ 21.51” W4° 15’ circular walk with some steep climbs and 33.67”. SX 401 698. slippery patches will take you from Suitability for dogs: on leads in fields. Harrowbarrow to Norris Green, Parking: Harrowbarrow & Metherell Village Hall. Todsworthy, Danescombe and back.

Published by Calstock Footpath Society 2014 Refreshments: The Carpenters Arms, Metherell.. Updated May 2021 Public Transport: Bus 79, 79A Train: to Supported by & Rail Partnership, The Queen’s .. See www.traveline.info Head, Cross House, Tamar Inn, Boot Inn, White Hart, Buccaneer, Cornish Inn, Arms Hotel, Louis Tea Rooms, Premier Stores, Carpenter’s Arms, Sandhill House, Andrew Brown

Printed at The Printing Press, Plymouth PL4 0JW you reach the road turn right onto a footpath/track. The stream will be on your right as you walk between old buildings and the footpath can be very muddy here. Just before you start to climb out of the valley you will see the ruins of an old Paper mill (6). The mill was in operation from the latter half of the 18th century until about 1857, making Turn right from (1) the Harrowbarrow & Just as the road goes downhill again, take brown paper and Metherell Village Hall and continue along the footpath to the right signposted millboard (used in book the road to the crossroads (2) go straight Danescombe ½mile. -binding). Follow the way steeply uphill across and shortly afterwards you pass by (4) follow the path taking the path to your (3) Westlands (once a shop). Continue downhill to a stile in left up through the woods. Lots of uphill to Norris Green where you turn left the bottom left hand bluebells can be found here in late spring. signposted St Ann's Chapel, , comer of the field. Continue uphill until you reach a kissing- Gunnislake and Go over the stile. The path now runs gate. On passing through the gate walk shortly afterwards, alongside (and sometimes in) the stream along the top edge of the field until you left again in the that is on the left. The going is very uneven reach another kissing-gate. This gate d i r e c t i o n o f and it can be slippery when wet. Follow the brings you on to the and Calstock, Albaston, footpath as it runs along the side of a Calstock road along which you walked Gunnislake and then right in the direction private garden. Below on the left you will towards Todsworthy. Turn left and pass of Albaston, Calstock. Continue down the see Danescombe farm (5), now owned by Friezeland (7) on your right. hill and up the other side. the National Trust but thought to have been formerly the Miners Arms. Before