| Date: Location: Distance: Parking: Lunch: | 30 August 2018 Breamore 6.6 miles Bat and Ball Bat and Ball |
 Breamore House  The Water Tower | Our second walk from the Bat and Ball this month but a completely different route this time. It was interesting walking along the road to Breamore House because we noticed so many buildings, set back from the road, that we had never noticed before. This was simply because we had usually driven along the road and parked by the church. We have walked past the house numerous times but Peter has never visited it and Ray not for xx years. The web site says it is open for guided tours between April and October and there are excellent reviews on line so that is something to remedy. |
From Breamore House there is a quite long but gentle climb all the way through Breamore Wood but after that it is downhill all the way back to the pub - well apart from one little dip and rise near the end. There is also a slight rise if you decide to visit the Mizmaze . This is one of only eight surviving turf mazes in the country and is surrounded by a grove of yew trees. It is fenced in to preserve it. We have visited it before but long ago.
| It was a lovely day and the views over Breamore Down were so nice that we decided to continue to the end of the wood before taking the “hairpin bend” at the top. This was fine until we turned back and found the first part of North Chagford Drove very overgrown. The path across the bottom of the wood would have been a much better choice and the rest of the Drove was fine. Walking along the Drove we saw a farmer spraying a field of flax and thought what a wonderful sight that must have provided when it was in full bloom. It was a massive field. |  Breamore Down  Flax |
Approaching the A338 it looks as if there is a path across the corner of the field but we could see no sign of this. Not wanting to walk on the crop we cut across just after the Chalk Pit. There is a path here but it was quite overgrown at first opening up after a few hundred yards. We looked for a sign of the path across the field but could still not see any evidence of its existence. We failed to find another path just after leaving North Street. We wanted to join the lane we started out on but were forced to take the other path that took us out onto the A338 again. Although there is no footpath for a short distance it was not a problem as it is pretty decent for most of the way back to the pub.
We had decided before we set off that we were going to have the Bobotie for lunch and very tasty it was too. In one respect it was a shame the walk had gone so well! We were in the pub by 13:45 and it was really busy so the service was a bit slower than usual but we had nowhere to go so we sat with our tea and smarties and put the world to rights.
We had decided before we set off that we were going to have the Bobotie for lunch and very tasty it was too. In one respect it was a shame the walk had gone so well! We were in the pub by 13:45 and it was really busy so the service was a bit slower than usual but we had nowhere to go so we sat with our tea and smarties and put the world to rights.
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