DARTMOOR RAILWAY
Okehampton Station
Station Road Okehampton, Devon EX20 1EJ Tel: 01837 55164
Train Service each weekend from Saturday 9th April 2011 and Bank Holidays
Bulleid Buffet Tel: 01837 55667 West Country Models Tel: 01837 55330 Postbridge & Belliever Tor
The Granite Way is the perfect to spend a day out cycling. As part of Devon’s ‘Coast to Coast’, it’s a family friendly traffic free cycle route with impressive views from two dramatic viaducts. The route passes through Dartmoor National Park and boasts a wide variety of sights and interest.
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• 17 Century Farmhouse • Central for touring, walking, cycling, outdoors
• Heated Swimming Pool • Three course fishing lakes and nature trail
• Delicious home cooking Come and spoil yourselves
Open all year Tel/Fax: 01837 861221
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morning with the sun behind you, it is breathtaking. The third is Cranbrook higher up. At Shilstone to the west is the best known cromlech or dolmens in Devon with the odd name of Spinster’s Rock. Legend has it that three spinsters put it in place, but fact says it is the remains of a Bronze Age megalithic tomb.
Then to Okehampton, known as the gateway to north Dartmoor. Okehampton has been greeting visitors for over 2000 years. Some were invaders rather than visitors! The area was initially settled in the Bronze Age, extensive evidence of which can still be found on the slopes of surrounding moorland. Visitors today can step back into the past with a visit to the substantial ruins of Okehampton Castle, which dramatically stand just a short distance from the Town Centre.
If ever there was an industrial “revolution”, it was on Dartmoor during the middle Ages! The technology; scale and political organisation of the tin industry were truly amazing. Trade in tin and wool created wealth, which led to the rebuilding of many local churches. Much of this history can be explored at the Museum of Dartmoor Life, where you’ll find a variety of relics tracing the history of the moor and its people down the years.
Okehampton Castle
The ghost of Lady Howard haunts this castle and the legend goes that at midnight every night she travels from Okehampton to Tavistock in the form of a black dog, having taken a blade of grass from the castle grounds. The dog runs alongside a coach made from the bones of her dead husband and only when Lady Howard has removed every single blade of grass from the castle, will her spirit find peace.
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