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Holne is a pretty little village just a short hop from the delightful River Dart. It's home to a good pub, the 13th-century Church House Inn, as well as a charming little Community Shop and tea room. From the village, you can walk to the impressive outcrop at Bench Tor or explore the wooded Dart Gorge, with its lovely wild swimming spots.

Very nice church and chapel. Very worthwhile. Free entrance

Nice reward after the climb; also with some banks.

Nice reward after the climb; several rest benches

Can get pretty muddy but beautiful through here on the doubletrack.

The Romanesque Revival style church is constructed of gray limestone and yellow Ham Hill stone. The interior is of white Bath stone and the vault rises 15m above the nave. The main altar is decorated with gold, enamel jewelry and the sacrament chapel (1966) has beautiful stained glass windows.

High up in Hembury Woods is Hembury Castle. Not just an Iron Age Hillfort but also a Norman Motte and Bailey Castle which was built into the fort. It is known locally as Danes Camp, perhaps due to a legendary viking invasion. The Danes sailed up the River Dart and attacked the hillfort, capturing both the fort and the women who lived there. When the vikings fell into a slumber, they were killed by the women and the danes ousted. It is a great place to visit with children to combine history with nature. There is plenty of carparking at Hembury Woods and short walks up to the castle or longer tracing the River Dart.

Buckfast Abbey in Buckfastleigh is a Benedictine abbey and one of the few remaining active monasteries in Britain. The monastery was founded in 1018 by Lord Aylward in the Valley of the Dart. Little is known about the early days of the monastery. In 1136 it closed a congregation with the monastery Savigny and then belonged to the Cistercian order: From 1147 to 1539, the monastery was a Cistercian abbey. The church and buildings were destroyed in the course of the dissolution of the English monasteries under the reign of King Henry VIII, and for more than 300 years existed only ruins of the abbey. In 1882 it was then rented by Benedictines banished from France by the St. Augustines Priory in Ramsgate and later purchased for £ 4,700. The first abbot, Boniface Natter, died in 1906 in a shipwreck. His successor Anscar Vonier tackled the long-planned reconstruction of the abbey. The third abbot, Bruno Fehrenbacher, came from Upper Swabia like his predecessors. Source and more info: Wikipedia