A true Box of Delights.
To places new to almost everyone, to places we are not allowed to go - without very special permission. Out from Princetown on rather a grey day greatly enhanced as the brewery stirred up a mash. And down the faintest of tracks by the school to find all sorts of things. Mostly avoiding the compound to ford the swollen leats and find the clapper bridges. To the beautiful 1900 eleven arches where once a pipe carrying certain stuff lay. And on by the Prison Leat and the Blackbrook to the aqueduct and on. By where the leats merge and the leat take off to cross the road. Up the fields to Conchies Field to find shelter for a cuppa on the pipes. Onward to Fice's Well, 1568 no less, to find all sorts of intrigue - strange structures, walls with curly hooks ... Up to the leat and along to the sad cross marking where Cyril Sinclair was struck by lightning in 1983. Back to the track and on to the Millennium Stone. Over the road and on, by the Prison Farm and close under the walls. Past the most rare vintage Fire Plug sign and into the lovely church. And as we left Misty was there to greet us.
A new and most interesting walk; you really do have to be there ...