A grey dry day as we seven climbed our way up to a field behind the Rose and Crown and found our connection to the Erme Plym trail. Lovely sweeping fields and woodlands to reach the road at Gorlofen with snowdrops in the banks and then back into the fields towards the ruined quarry barn at the end of Tapps Lane near Brixton.
Coffee and pancakes were consumed here and our route now followed the field edges along the Silverbridge valley towards Yealmpton again. We stopped at the lovely double tunnel under the main road. The bigger tunnel providing a link from Kitley and the Yealm Estuary towards the Lyneham Estate. Off the fields now on to footpaths and over the road at Stray Park to join the riverside track to Puslinch Bridge. Past the Kitley Caves entrance, limekilns and railway viaduct. Drifts of perfect snowdrops everywhere on each bank and a lovely clear Yealm River flowing briskly.
Past Puslinch House, past more limekilns and over the steep stone stile into the field towards the Torr district of Yealmpton once home to the station and quarry industries.
Interesting houses looking out of place without the railway and a jumble of cottages lined our way to Torr Hill and on to the very hospitable Rose and Crown.
Four of us continued on to enjoy the Snowdrop Festival at Mothecombe. This was lovely but we agreed we had already seen the best show along the riverbanks .
Anne