6 km or 33


/4


miles (without optional detour)


1. Turn right from the Station Road car park (S), cross the bridge over the River Bovey and turn right after the Methodist Church into Le Molay Littry Way. Continue past the left turn into Bradley Road until the pavement goes behind a hedge by the speed de-restriction sign. Cross the road to the public footpath sign opposite (A) – 1.3km. 2. Go through the gate, turn left and keeping the hedge on your left hand side cross the field to a stile and public footpath signpost in the far hedge. Go over the stile, across the lane and round the left hand side of the metal gate opposite. At a public footpath sign just ahead turn left and follow the path which brings you to the left side of Bradley Pond. After following the edge of the pond for a bit, the public path turns left, indicated by an arrow, the path ahead being private. Follow the footpath over a stile and keep to the right hand side of the field, past a house to a stile and path which shortly brings you to a gate onto a lane. Turn left here and follow the lane to the T-junction with another lane (B)* – 700m. 3. (*To visit the other two Bradley Ponds, turn left at the T-junction, and walk down almost to the main road (C). Footpaths on your left and right go round the two ponds. Return up the lane to the T-junction to resume the walk.) 4. If you do not intend to visit the other two ponds, turn right on arriving at the T-junction and follow the road past Little Bovey Farm House to cross two bridges and the old primary school on your right (D) – 1.4km. 5. At the crossroads, just beyond the school, turn right along the public bridleway, past the houses and through the gate. Continue on the bridleway through the trees until it brings you into a lane which you follow past some ramshackle buildings until it brings you out close to the busy Pottery Road roundabout (E) – 1.5km. 6. Turn right onto the Newton Road and, after a short rise, you will pass the Recreation Ground and St John’s Church on your left. Take the first right after the church into Indio Road and follow the road round to the left where a public footpath sign will be seen. Follow this path and it will bring you back to the Station Road car park from where you set out – 1.2km.


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