ディーン・プライヤーでののおすすめウォーキング＆ハイキングルート

Here's a video of it in context. Taken in early June 2025 https://youtube.com/shorts/vdNd2D4RTIg?feature=share

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.

bring clothes for wet and windy weather!

J

Very nice church and chapel. Very worthwhile. Free entrance

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The Avon Dam was built in 1957 to supply water to the coastal towns of South Devon. You can ride up the access road to the base of the dam but will have to leave your bike or push up to see the reservoir.

Nice reward after the climb; also with some banks.

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Nice reward after the climb; several rest benches

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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.

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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.

This bridge is well placed near Huntingdon Cross, in an area that used to be quite boggy and always difficult to walk through.

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Dam with a beautiful lake behind it. Beautiful panorama.

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Since Karl Kehrle (aka Brother Adam) has modernized beekeeping here (with the Buckfast bee) and keeping it over the decades and thus revolutionized it in many areas, it has become a kind of place of pilgrimage for beekeepers.

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the view goes all the way to the coast at Berry Head

Erected in 2018 by the National Park, funded by Totnes Ramblers and South Devon Ramblers. Well done them.

Really great bit of trail in either direction. Very gravel bike-able.

The Avon Dam sits above Shipley Bridge in quintessential moorland surroundings. Cattle, sheep and Dartmoor ponies can often be seen grazing alongside the reservoir, on the grassy hills that roll up and away. The dam itself is just as spectacular as the views you can enjoy from it and the Avon Dam Reservoir is vast and beautiful as well. This is a perfect spot for a rest and a bite to eat, particularly as the ascent to it from the south is quite steep in the final section.

While the first abbey in Buckfast was built here in 1018, much demolition and construction has happened since and the abbey that stands in the village today was actually built in the early 1900s. The abbey is a working Benedictine monastery and, amazingly, is self-sufficient with a small farm and a shop. This is also home to Buckfast Tonic Wine, a unique alcoholic drink with considerable caffeine. The abbey is well worth visiting as it has an impressive collection of buildings and is set in lovely grounds.

While the first abbey in Buckfast was built here in 1018, much demolition and construction has happened since and the abbey that stands in the village today was actually built in the early 1900s. The abbey is a working Benedictine monastery and, amazingly, is self-sufficient with a small farm and a shop. This is also home to Buckfast Tonic Wine, a unique alcoholic drink with considerable caffeine. The abbey is well worth visiting as it has an impressive collection of buildings and is set in lovely grounds.