Fetler Yell North Roe Shetland Islands Muckle Roe Brae Voe Mainland

Foula Lerwick

Sumburgh

Fair Isle

Westray Sanday Rousay

Stronsay Mainland Orkney Islands Kirkwall Shapinsay Scarpa Flow Hoy South Ronaldsay

Cape Island of Stroma Wrath Scrabster John O'Groats Castletown Durness Thurso Port of Ness Melvich Borgh Bettyhill Cellar Watten Noss Head Head Tongue Wick Forsinard Gallan Isle of Lewis Head Port nan Giuran Stornoway Latheron Unapool Altnaharra Kinbrace WESTERN ISLES Lochinver Scarp Helmsdale Hushinish Point Airidh a Bhruaich Lairg Taransay Tarbert Shiant Islands Greenstone Point Scalpay Ullapool Bonar Bridge Harris Rudha Reidh Pabbay Dornoch Tarbat Berneray Dundonnell Ness Port nan Long Tain Gairloch Lossiemouth North Uist Invergordon Lochmaddy Alness Cullen Cromarty Macdu Fraserburgh Monach Islands Ban Uig Rona Elgin Buckie Baleshare Kinlochewe Garve Dingwall Achnasheen Forres Benbecula Ronay Nairn Baile Mhanaich Torridon MORAY Keith Dunvegan Turri Peterhead Portree Inverness Aberlour Geirinis Raasay Lochcarron Huntly Du town Rudha Stromeferry Ellon Hallagro Kyle of Cannich Lochalsh Drumnadrochit Rhynie Oldmeldrum South Uist Isle of Skye Dornie Kyleakin HIGHLAND Grantown-on- Spey Inverurie Lochboisdale Invermoriston Alford Shiel Bridge Aviemore

Canna Airor ABERDEENSHIRE Aberdeen Barra Ardvasar Inverie Invergarry Kingussie Heaval Castlebay Rum Newtonmore Vatersay Mallaig Banchory Laggan Braemar Ballater Sandray Rosinish Eigg Arisaig Glennnan Dalwhinnie Stonehaven Mingulay Spean Bridge Berneray Muck Fort William SCOTLAND ANGUS Onich Coll Ballachulish Glencoe Pitlochry Brechin Montrose Tobermory PERTH AND KINROSS Kirriemuir Forfar Lochaline Portnacroish Aberfeldy Blairgowrie Tiree Dunkeld Coupar Angus Arbroath Ulva Craignure Connel Carnoustie Killin Isle of Mull Monieth Dundee Tayport Iona Oban Dalmally Crianlarich Lochearnhead Newport Fionnphort Crie Perth -on-Tay Bridge of Earn Cupar St Andrews Luing Ardlui STIRLING Auchterarder Auchtermuchty Inveraray Ladybank Callander Falkland Fife Ness Scarba Tarbet FIFE Strachur Kinross Dunblane Elie Colonsay Lochgoilhead Bridge of Allan CLACKMANNAN Glenrothes Buckhaven Stirling Lochgilphead Garelochhead Alloa Kirkcaldy Ardlussa Cowdenbeath Oronsay Dunfermline North Berwick Grangemouth ARGYLL & BUTE Helensburgh Denny Inverkeithing EAST Dunbar Dunoon Gourock Alexandria Kilsyth Falkirk FALKIRK South Queensferry Jura Linlithgow Edinburgh LOTHIAN Greenock Dumbarton Kirkintilloch Cumbernauld Haddington Tighnabruaich INVERCLYDE NORTH Musselburgh Clydebank Bathgate St Abb's Head Port Askaig Tarbert LANARKSHIRE Livingston Dalkeith RENFREWSHIRE Airdrie Kennacraig Rothesay Paisley WEST Bonnyrigg Eyemouth Glasgow Shotts LOTHIAN Largs Johnstone Penicuik Islay Motherwell MIDLOTHIAN Rhinns Point Millport Hamilton East Kilbride EAST Carluke Berwick-upon-Tweed Gigha RENFREWSHIRE NORTH AYRSHIRE Larkhall Lauder Primmill Kilwinning Strathaven Holy Island Port Ellen Killean Ardrossan Lanark Peebles Lesmahagow Coldstream Irvine Kilmarnock Biggar Galashiels Brodick Kelso Arran SOUTH Bamburgh Holy Troon LANARKSHIRE Mauchline Selkirk Malin Head Isle Prestwick Ayr Abington Campbeltown Cumnock BORDERS Jedburgh Tory Island EAST New Cumnock Hawick Alnwick Rathlin Island AYRSHIRE Bloody Horn Head Inishowen Mull of Kintyre Maybole Foreland Carndonagh Head Dalmellington Mo at NORTHUMBERLAND Amble Moville Portrush Portstewart Ballycastle Girvan SOUTH Buncrana Bushmills AYRSHIRE Coleraine DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY Otterburn Ashington Morpeth Newbiggin- Aran Island Limavady Ballymoney Carsphairn by-the-Sea Cushendall Lochmaben Lockerbie Langholm Londonderry Ballantrae Bedlington Blyth Letterkenny LONDONDERRY New Dumfries ANTRIM Ponteland Dungiven Galloway Whitley Bay DONEGAL Cairnryan Longtown Gosforth South Shields Annan NORTHERN Newton Stewart Gretna Hexham Corbridge Newcastle upon Tyne Strabane Ballymena Castle Douglas Jarrow Ballybofey Maghera Stranraer Dalbeattie Brampton Gateshead Rossan Point Larne Sunderland Portpatrick Carlisle Washington Magherafelt Kirkcudbright Consett Stanley Castlederg Randalstown Wigton Killybegs Newtownstewart Whitehead Donegal Moneymore Antrim Carrickfergus Whithorn Alston Durham St John's Point TYRONE Brandon Peterlee Bangor Maryport Omagh Cookstown Drummore Donaghadee Burrow Spennymoor Ballyshannon Crumlin Holywood Head Penrith Hartlepool IRELAND Workington Cockermouth Bishop Auckland Bundoran Belfast Newtownards Appleby-in- Dungannon Carrydu Comber Keswick Westmorland Newton Redcar Lisburn Aycli e Whitehaven CUMBRIA DURHAM Middlesbrough Balderg FERMANAGH Craigavon Lurgan Guisborough Dromore Brough Darlington Whitby Belmullet Easky Egremont Enniskillen Portadown Ballynahinch Killyleagh Stokesley Sligo Armagh Portaferry Ambleside Scotch Corner Robin Hood’s Bay Tandragee Banbridge Richmond Lisnaskea Andreas Windermere DOWN Downpatrick Coniston Monaghan ARMAGH Catterick Keady Ballaugh Ramsey Kendal Sedbergh Northallerton Ballycroy Ballina LEITRIM Castlewellan Leyburn Scalby SLIGO Newtownbutler Rathfriland Hawes Scarborough Clones MONAGHAN ISLE OF MAN MAYO Newry Newcastle Achill Peel Laxey Thirsk Pickering Ballybay Millom Ulverston Filey Island Castleblayney Kirkby Lonsdale NORTH YORKSHIRE Cootehill Warrenpoint Douglas Boyle Crossmaglen Grange-over- Ingleton Swinford Kilkeel Sands Ripon Malton Flamborough Port Erin Barrow-in-Furness Carnforth Easingwold Head Carrick-on-Shannon Cavan Castletown Bridlington Clare Castlebar Ballaghaderreen Carrickmacross Dundalk Walney Morecambe Settle Island Lancaster Westport Bailieborough Isle Heysham Drield ROSCOMMON Knaresborough Inishturk LOUTH Harrogate Ballyhaunis CAVAN LANCASHIRE Skipton York EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE Castlerea Ilkley Wetherby Inishbon Claremorris Ardee Fleetwood Pocklington LONGFORD Granard Garstang Keighley Market Inishark Longford Bingley Yeadon Tadcaster Leenane Colne Weighton Ballinrobe Kells Clitheroe Shipley Beverley Roscommon Blackpool Nelson Leeds Selby Drogheda Kirkham Burnley Bradford Garforth WEST YORKSHIRE Hull Clifden Lytham St Anne's Preston Todmorden Hessle Withernsea REPUBLIC Navan Halifax Castleford Tuam WESTMEATH Leyland Rawtenstall Brighouse Batley Goole Maam Cross Balbriggan Wakeeld Pontefract Southport Hudderseld Mullingar Trim Skerries Chorley Spurn Head OF IRELAND MEATH Rochdale Hemsworth Thorne Scunthorpe Kilkieran GALWAY Rush Ormskirk Standish Bolton Bury Cleethorpes Athlone Formby GREATER MANCHESTER Grimsby Swords Barnsley Brigg Wigan Oldham SOUTH Galway Moate Malahide Penistone Doncaster Caistor Athenry Ballinasloe Crosby Salford YORKSHIRE Clara Maynooth DUBLIN MERSEYSIDE MANCHESTER Oranmore Lucan Carmel Head Bootle Stocksbridge Edenderry St Helens Sale Stockport Glossop Celbridge Wallasey Rotherham Bawtry OFFALY Tullamore Clondalkin Dublin Great Liverpool Warrington Gainsborough Inishmore Moelfre Birkenhead Cheadle Market Loughrea Gogarth Orme Prestatyn Altrincham Rasen Louth Dun Laoghaire Colwyn Widnes Sheeld Mablethorpe KILDARE Tallaght Holyhead Anglesey Llandudno Whaley Ballyvaughan Kilcormac Bay Wilmslow Worksop Retford Inisheer Banagher Newbridge Naas Beaumaris Rhyl Runcorn Knutsford Bridge Droneld Portarlington Bray Holy Island Llangefni Conwy Abergele Flint Staveley Gort Birr Kildare Frodsham Northwich Buxton Lincoln Mountmellick Monasterevin Bangor Chestereld Greystones CONWY Chester Middlewich Bakewell Horncastle Ingoldmells Bethesda FLINTSHIRE DERBYSHIRE Ollerton Winsford Congleton Manseld LINCOLNSHIRE Ennistymon Portlaoise Caernarfon Llanrwst Denbigh Clay Cross Skegness Mountrath Mold CHESHIRE Biddulph Matlock CLARE Llanberis Betws- Ruthin Crewe NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Coningsby Roscrea LAOIS Athy WICKLOW Leek Alfreton y-coed DENBIGHSHIRE Wirksworth Ripley Newark-on-Trent Ennis Wicklow Wrexham Nantwich Kidsgrove Burnham Nenagh Abbeyleix Stoke-on-Trent Belper Hucknall Blaenau Ffestiniog Ruabon Newcastle- Sleaford Market Sheringham Rathdrum under-Lyme Ashbourne Ilkeston Boston Porthmadog Llangollen WREXHAM Nottingham Hunstanton Cromer Templemore Carlow Whitchurch Kilkee Castlecomer Bala Uttoxeter Stapleford Beeston Grantham Sutterton North Tullow Pwllheli Criccieth Ellesmere Stone Derby Kilrush Market Drayton Long Eaton Donington Walsham Happisburgh Arklow GWYNEDD Oswestry Fakenham Limerick Abersoch Wem STAFFORDSHIRE Burton upon Aylsham CARLOW Trent Holbeach Thurles Spalding Bardsey Sta ord Loughborough King's Lynn Bagenalstown Island SHROPSHIRE Ballybunion Kilkenny Gorey Dolgellau Ashby-de-la-Zouch Bourne TIPPERARY Barmouth Rugeley Melton Mowbray NORFOLK Rathkeale LIMERICK Newport Crowland KILKENNY Borris WEXFORD Mallwyd Shrewsbury East Caister-on-Sea Listowel Cannock Licheld Coalville Oakham Swa ham Cashel Callan Welshpool Telford LEICESTERSHIRE Stamford Dereham Norwich Newcastle West Tipperary Graiguenamanagh Tamworth RUTLAND Wisbech Great Thomastown Leicester Abbeyfeale Tywyn Walsall Downham Watton Wymondham Yarmouth Enniscorthy Machynlleth Wolverhampton Oadby Kilmallock Aberdy Montgomery Hinckley Blaby Uppingham Market Charleville Cahir Blackwater Peterborough Attleborough Newtown Bridgnorth Nuneaton Market Lowestoft Tralee Church West Bromwich Oundle Wimblington Clonmel New Ross Stretton Dudley Harborough Bungay Beccles Castleisland Carrick-on-Suir POWYS Birmingham Corby Chatteris Llanidloes Stourbridge Littleport Brandon Thetford Mitchelstown Aberystwyth WEST MIDLANDS Bedworth Rothwell Sawtry Diss Dingle Wexford Llangurig Clun Kidderminster Kettering Ely KERRY Ludlow Solihull COVENTRY CAMBRIDGESHIRE Halesworth Kanturk Waterford Huntingdon Mildenhall Southwold Killorglin WALES Stourport- Bromsgrove NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Eye Knighton Rugby Brampton Mallow WATERFORD Rosslare on-Severn Leamington Spa Killarney Fermoy CEREDIGION Rhayader Redditch Wellingborough Rushden Warwick Waterbeach Bury St Edmunds Millstreet Tramore Aberaeron Llandrindod Presteigne Droitwich Daventry Saxmundham Newmarket Leiston Cahersiveen Dungarvan New Quay Tregaron Wells Leominster WARWICKSHIRE Northampton St Neots Stowmarket Valentia Island WORCESTERSHIRE SUFFOLK Aldeburgh Kington Bromyard Stratford Cambridge CORK Worcester upon Avon Bedford Stradishall Woodbridge Kenmare Builth Wells HEREFORDSHIRE Pershore Towcester Macroom Youghal Strumble Cardigan Lampeter Shipston- Newport Pagnell Cork Great Malvern Biggleswade Ipswich Midleton Head on-Stour BEDFORDSHIRE Sudbury Newcastle Hay-on-Wye Evesham Milton Keynes Royston Caherdaniel Fishguard Hereford Ledbury Banbury Brackley Sa ron Cobh Cloyne Emlyn Llandovery Felixstowe Mathry Tewkesbury Moreton-in-Marsh Letchworth Baldock Walden Buckingham Leighton Halstead Manningtree Harwich Brecon Hitchin Dunmanway St David's CARMARTHENSHIRE Stow-on-the-Wold Chipping Norton Buzzard Stevenage Bantry Bandon Ramsey PEMBROKESHIRE Ross-on-Wye Colchester Kinsale Carmarthen Llandeilo Bicester Braintree Dursey Island Bear Island Island Newgale Cheltenham Dunstable Luton Stansted ESSEX Crickhowell Abergavenny Gloucester BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HERTFORDSHIRE Clonakilty Haverfordwest St Clears Kidlington Ware Witham Brightlingsea Clacton-on-Sea Narberth Ammanford Monmouth GLOUCESTERSHIRE Witney Aylesbury Tring Skomer Milford Ebbw Brynmawr St Albans Skibbereen Island Merthyr Harlow Haven Tydl Vale Blaenavon Carterton Oxford Wendover Chelmsford Neyland Kidwelly NEATH MERTHYR BLAENAU GWENT MONMOUTHSHIRE Stroud Hemel Hateld Skokholm PORT TALBOT TYDFIL Thame Aberdare Pontypool Lydney Cirencester OXFORDSHIRE Hempstead Maldon Island Pembroke Tenby Llanelli Southminster Glyncorrwg TORFAEN Nailsworth Amersham RHONDDA Bargoed Abingdon Watford Barnet Clear Island Neath CYNON TAFF Chepstow Faringdon Eneld Brentwood Swansea CAERPHILLY Cwmbran Rayleigh St Govan's Maesteg Tetbury Cricklade Didcot High Wycombe Chigwell DUNNABRIDGE POUNDSWANSEA Port Pontypridd Risca Newport Wantage Harrow Head Caldicot Wallingford Marlow Basildon Port Eynon Talbot Malmesbury Uxbridge GREATER LONDON Southend-on-Sea 02 Caerphilly NEWPORT Henley BRIDGEND Swindon Maidenhead Canvey Island CARDIFF Avonmouth Slough LONDON Porthcawl Bridgend Woolwich Tilbury Cardi BRISTOL BERKSHIRE Windsor Dartford Sheerness Cowbridge Chippenham Reading Richmond Gravesend Margate VALE OF GLAMORGAN Bristol Staines 10.9 Distance Time Grade Refreshments Clevedon Corsham Avebury Hungerford Rochester Barry Marlborough Newbury Bracknell Kingston Congresbury Bath Melksham Sutton Chatham Ramsgate Croydon Sittingbourne 10.9km/6¾ miles 3½ hours Moderate 1 pub/1 café Weston-super-Mare Devizes Woking Epsom Kingsclere Faversham Sandwich Trowbridge WILTSHIRE Camberley Caterham Maidstone Cheddar Leatherhead Basingstoke Aldershot Reigate Sevenoaks KENT Canterbury Deal Burnham-on-Sea Westbury Dorking Oxted Lynmouth Frome Andover Whitchurch Guildford Redhill Tonbridge Lundy Minehead Wells Warminster Farnham SURREY East Ashford Dover Watchet Pilton HAMPSHIRE Godalming Glastonbury Amesbury Alton Grinstead Braunton Crawley Cranbrook Folkestone At the top of the 443m Bridgwater Street New Alresford Tunbridge Wells Mere Haslemere Tenterden Hythe Wilton Winchester Liphook Horsham Crowborough Bellever Tor – Point 4. Wincanton New Romney PLANBideford YOURSouth Molton Taunton SOMERSET Salisbury Billingshurst Haywards Heath Hartland Shaftesbury Peterseld Wellington Romsey Heatheld Rye Eastleigh Midhurst Pulborough Uckeld ROUTE Ilminster Yeovil Sherborne EAST SUSSEX Battle Dungeness Southampton WEST SUSSEX Hurstpierpoint Tiverton Crewkerne Lyndhurst Havant Arundel Chard Blandford Forum Fareham Chichester Lewes Hailsham Hastings Bude Ringwood Hythe Worthing Hove Bexhill Brockenhurst Gosport Newhaven Wimborne Minster Bognor Brighton Lymington Regis Littlehampton Eastbourne Bridport DORSET New Milton Portsmouth Seaford Seaton Dorchester Cowes Boscastle Poole Newport Ryde Selsey Lyme Bournemouth Tintagel DEVON Regis Wareham ISLE Launceston Freshwater OF WIGHT Weymouth Swanage Shanklin Ventnor Padstow Wadebridge Fortuneswell Ashburton Bodmin Portland Bill Liskeard Newquay CORNWALL Saltash St Austell Looe Torpoint SOUTHERN Dartmouth St Agnes Fowey Truro Redruth St Ives Camborne St Mawes 20 St Just Falmouth ROUTE Penzance Sennen Helston Is it for me? 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Scilly Isles Photo: Robert Hesketh open moor; undulating ON PAGE 12 AUG ‘11 18 ground; no very long or tarting again from prehistoric monument, like the steep slopes , this walk to 2.6m (8ft 8ins) tall standing Stiles None S 16 Dunnabridge Pound affords stone near Laughter Tor on START/PARKING great views, this walk. Certainly, the Postbridge car park, especially the panorama from Judge’s Chair was used as grid ref SX647788 Bellever Tor (443m). It is also shelter by pound keepers. Nearest town 14 rich in history. Dunnabridge By Robert Hesketh. Refreshments Pound encloses two-and-a-half

East Dart Hotel; tea/ 12 1 acres and is one of several Start snacks Postbridge PO ancient drift pounds on Turn L out of Postbridge car Public toilets At start; Dartmoor, where illegally park on to road. Do not cross Bellever Forest car park pastured animals were clapper bridge, but turn R and Public transport 10 impounded. Owners had to pay follow path downriver on west Limited Sunday bus service. Tel: Traveline fines to recover their stock, or bank for 100m. Diverge R to a 0871 200 2233; 8 the beasts would be sold. The gate. Walk up steps. Continue www.travelinesw.com pound’s age is debated: ahead on path with gorse and certainly it’s medieval and may then stone wall, L. Follow path MAPS be prehistoric, or at least on as it cuts diagonally R across Ordnance Survey 6 the site of prehistoric remains. rough ground to lane. Walk Explorer OL28; Landranger 191 Such remains have often been parallel to lane to Bellever.

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debated. Possibly it came cattle grid. Continue ahead into 2 from Crockern Tor, meeting forest track, signed ‘Laughter place of the or Hole Farm’. Keep to forest

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authorities claim it is a R, ‘Laughter Hole Farm’. metres DUNNABRIDGE POUND DEVON

Ordnance Survey mapping ©Crown Copyright in association with Memory-Map/Bauer Media’s Media Licence number AM60/10 5 4 www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapshop 1 Start 2 3 to Hameldown. Looking north Buy maps at maps Buy Pound andJudge’s Chair. Divert LtoseeDunnabridge Follow track down toroad. 2.6m highagainstskyline. 200m diversion tosee,itstands standing stoneonR. Worth Laughter Tor. Lookoutfor ‘Dunnabridge Pound’. Walk past At next track division,keep Rfor signed ‘County RoadB3357’. Track dividesatfarm. Keep R, Postbridge. to road. Turn Rbackto Rejoin forest track. Follow this Head diagonallyRdownhill. triangulation pillar. weathering, surmountedby pronounced horizontal classic granite torwith broad pathupBellever Tor, a Reaching openmoor, follow path, keeping wall onyour L. Bellever Tor Postbridge’. Follow fork L,signed‘Public Footpath Retrace your steps100m,then © Country Walking August2011 4 5 3 3.8km/2¼miles 8.4km/5¼miles 6.4km/4miles www.memory-map.co.uk Contact 08448110950 England –OS1:50,000 Southern Memory-Map V5 Route createdusing Judge’s Chair. 02