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This stone stile leads past Lower Greenway farm and then on to Old Mill Farm near to Galmpton Creek. Photo by-Tom-Jolliffe


Elberry Cove bath house


Go through the gate and keep to the left-hand fenceline. Take the left-hand gate into the woodland. Go through the kissing gate and cross Greenway Road.


4. Climb the two stone stiles and turn right into Lower Greenway Farm yard. Turn left and head towards another old stile and gate. Go through the gate in the right-hand fence heading down towards the stile onto the foreshore. Continue right, along the foreshore. Walk up the short hill until you come to a right-hand bend. Here take the green lane ahead towards Galmpton Creek boatyards.


5. Follow the lane up hill past Dartside Boat Park. Turn right to Galmpton at Stoke Gabriel Road. Pass the Post Office and take Slade Lane on your left, to Galmpton Warborough Common. Head for the disused windmill. Cross the main road, near the War Memorial. 6. Walk downhill, alongside Bascombe Road until you reach the Public Footpath on the left. The footpath emerg- es on Broadsands Road. Turn right downhill to return to Broadsands beach.


Warborough Common


Heritage Elberry Cove bath house was built for Lord Churston in the 18th Century when seawater bathing became fashionable after King George III took a dip at Weymouth. The 18th Century Boat House on the banks of the River Dart at Greenway also has a bath house which floods with the tide. First recorded in 1493, ‘Greynway’ is an historic crossing point of the River Dart. The Greenway estate has been owned by explorers, mer- chants, and in the 1930’s by world-famous crime writer Agatha Christie. The garden, tended for around 400 years, includes a nationally important plant collection and is renowned for its magnolias. For further information on Gre- enway visit the National Trust’s website www.nationaltrust. org.uk Galmpton, pronounced ‘Gamp-ton’, was recorded in the Domesday Book (1086) as Galmetona, which means ‘a peasant who rented a smallholding’. It was largely agricultural, with a mainstay of apple orchards and piggeries providing for the village. Whole valleys were once covered in apple blossom as every farm used to have an orchard, with cider forming an important part of a farm workers pay. By the Tudor age (1485- 1602) Galmpton was at the heart of limestone quarrying on the Dart and produced building materials for export from the nearby ports of Dartmouth and Totnes.


Landscape The landscapes and waterscapes of this walk vary from the coastal cliffs and wide sweeping waters of Tor Bay to the intimacy of the River Dart estuary created by its steep sided woodland fringed creeks. This enclosed feel is characteristic of drowned river valleys, or ‘rias’. The Dart valley was formed when sea levels were lower than today, and was then flooded and ‘drowned’ when sea levels rose with the last melting of the great ice sheets. Thick beds of Devonian limestone, once


The Dart estuary


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