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Bodmin Moor: Minions -> Tregarrrick Tor -> High Rock -> Trewortha Tor -> Kilmar Tor -> Sharp Tor -> Stowe's Hill -> Minions
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Bodmin Moor: Minions -> Tregarrrick Tor -> High Rock -> Trewortha Tor -> Kilmar Tor -> Sharp Tor -> Stowe's Hill -> Minions The walk starts at Minions. This track is about 10.5 miles. Keep closely to the track as sometimes it is threading its way between extremely rough ground, but the track we followed is good walking. We had a slightly misty start but it soom cleared to bright sunshine and excellent views. A good size group of people from the Newton Abbot Ramblers, car sharing from Newton Abbot. After the walk everyone stopped for a cream tea at the cafe in Minions.
Siblyback Lake (reservoir) from the top of Tregarrick Tor
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Withybrook Marsh on the right, Wardbrook Farm ahead and Sharp Tor to the right. We are heading towards Wardbrook Farm, but take a gate onto the edge of Withybrook Marsh and follow a bank right on the edge of the farm land.
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On the old railway below High Rock and Kilmar Tor on Twelve Men's Moor. Head west along the railway but don't follow to the end. Follow our track down to skirt some very jumbled rocks to the north of the ridge.
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Heading down from Twelve Men's Moor, looking west at Newel Tor and Smallacoombe Downs plantations. We are heading to the right of the small farm on the right, Trewortha, and Trewortha Tor on the ridge behind it.
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Now keeping an eye open for the burial Cairn and Cist marked on the map. Trewortha Farm ahead on the left and Trewortha Tor now more prominent behind it.
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The burial Cairn and Cist. Quite a large Cist.
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Trewortha Tor. We are heading to the west of the main Tor
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The view south from Trewortha Tor, looking at Kilmar Tor on Twelve Men's Moor and Smallacoombe Downs on the right.
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An overhanging rock at the west end of Trewortha Tor
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The view north from Trewortha Tor. In the distance Brown Willy and Buttern Hill, then the closer ridge of East Moor and Fox Tor.
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Cut stone blocks ready for tansport but just abandoned below the eastern end of Kilmar Tor
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View from the east end of Kilmar Tor. 360 degree panorama. On the left, looking west along Kilmar Tor, then north towards Launceston, then the eastern end of Kilmar Tor, and south towrds Bearah Tor, Sharp Tor and the masts on Caradon Hill. We are now heading for Bearah Tor.
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Looking back up at High Rock and Kilmar Tor from the south side.
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Newton Abbot Ramblers explore rocks near Sharp Tor. A rock basin has eroded a hole through the topmost rock.
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Peter with his arm through the hole in the rock basin
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Rock basins near Sharp Tor
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Panorama: Sharp Tor, Carradon Hill and Mast, Stowe's Hill We descend by a path south from here and then right onto a track between walls, and then up Stowe's Hill.
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-The top of Stowe's Hill surrounded by the massive remains of an ancient wall. Looking west, with Tregarrick Tor just visible, then Browngelly Downs in the distance. Smallacoombe Downs plantation, Kilmar Tor on Twelve Men's Moor and then Sharp Tor
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A rock within the settlement marked by patterns of holes. Are these star constellations?
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Balanced stones
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Balanced stones. It is an easy walk from the Cheesewring back to the car pars at Minions and a cream tea at the cafe.
