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A guide to 43 day walks in the Dartmoor National Park and surrounding area, this is a full-colour new edition of the original popular Cicerone guide to Dartmoor, an area described as the last great wilderness of England. It is an excellent introduction to the moor and the national park. In order to make using this guide as easy as possible the walks have been grouped into four large areas of Dartmoor: The South Moor; Widecombe Walks; The North East Moor; and The North West Moor. Most of the walks are circular and have been graded according to length (short, medium or long) and difficulty (easy, moderate and hard). The guide contains full-colour maps and photographs to the 43 routes. There are also outline suggestions for five longer routes on Dartmoor.
About the Author
John Earle is an experienced mountaineer, TV film maker and trek-leader. He runs a successful outdoor education centre on Dartmoor and is well known for his films about Cornwall and Dartmoor. He is also author of Cicerone guide to Cornwall and Exmoor and the Quantocks.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I live on the edge of Dartmoor, and walk there lots.
I have several guides to walks on Dartmoor, and this is the best of the bunch (so far). It is fairly up to date (of course most of the ancient and prehistoric features of the moor aren't chnaging particularly fast!) containing details of places to have a drink, park, transport links,etc.
The colour OS map extracts are great for PLANNING and getting an OVERVIEW of where to walk. It should go without saying, if you intend to actually leave the car park and move beyond the honey pots - The Dartmoor OS map and compass are essential.
Lots af really interesting stuff in the long introduction re archeology, geology, local history, etc.
I never really go out to follow a route, and never take guide books with me to the moor. This book is better than most if like me you want to gain snippets of information and specific details for planning where I am going to go on long walks. Its list of walks is well organized, and the sections are organized in such a way that you can combine/edit/lenghten or shorten your routes to plan your own day on the Moor.
Nothing bad at all to report about this book really. All the walks are a bit too short for my day. If your looking for a short walk, you'll easily find some great routes of a few hours or a few miles. If your looking to plan a whole day of walking, you'll just as easily find stuff here to help you plan your route(s).
I have several guides to walks on Dartmoor, and this is the best of the bunch (so far). It is fairly up to date (of course most of the ancient and prehistoric features of the moor aren't chnaging particularly fast!) containing details of places to have a drink, park, transport links,etc.
The colour OS map extracts are great for PLANNING and getting an OVERVIEW of where to walk. It should go without saying, if you intend to actually leave the car park and move beyond the honey pots - The Dartmoor OS map and compass are essential.
Lots af really interesting stuff in the long introduction re archeology, geology, local history, etc.
I never really go out to follow a route, and never take guide books with me to the moor. This book is better than most if like me you want to gain snippets of information and specific details for planning where I am going to go on long walks. Its list of walks is well organized, and the sections are organized in such a way that you can combine/edit/lenghten or shorten your routes to plan your own day on the Moor.
Nothing bad at all to report about this book really. All the walks are a bit too short for my day. If your looking for a short walk, you'll easily find some great routes of a few hours or a few miles. If your looking to plan a whole day of walking, you'll just as easily find stuff here to help you plan your route(s).
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An improvement on the earlier edition, better maps and photo's but still retains John Earle's enthusiasm and love of Dartmoor. Well written and informative. My aching legs bear testament to his persuasive text!
Jan Morgan
(Ruan Minor, Cornwall)
Jan Morgan
(Ruan Minor, Cornwall)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book covers a good range of possible walks and a load of background information, which makes it pretty good value for what it deals with. I'd like to have known before I bought it that the author is exceptionally interested in the old buildings and remains on the moor, and that the book has a huge amount of historical detail in the walks chapters - you can sometimes read several pages of text without the walk advancing a single step. Page 217 is a good example of the focus on ruins: the author advises walkers to follow a stream along a valley floor among spoil heaps and gullies with high ground above them, and adds "there is nothing much to be gained by climbing up to the two tors and if you do you will miss the chance to poke about in the ruins of Bleak House ... a lonely and remote ruin where the manager of the [long gone] Peat Works lived". I would rather have been able to buy a guide that concentrated more on the walking details; whereas some of the text of this guide seems to recap the author's more historical book "Dartmoor: walks into history". Two things I would have liked to see in the book as a walking guide are an overall map showing visually where the walks are in the landscape - a basic requirement of any walks book in my view; and summaries of the type of walk proposed in each chapter (eg 'this is a high level ridge walk with great views' or 'this is a flat valley walk'). But if as well as walking suggestions you would like a lot of detail about historical aspects, particularly the industrial archaeology, of the area, you'll find this book just the job.
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