Teign and Templer
Devon Life|November 2019
Not far from the bustle of Newton Abbot SIMONE STANBROOKBYRNE discovers some easy rural walking with royal connections
Simone Stanbrookbyrne
Teign and Templer

Although some areas of our county can feel quite built-up, it’s often possible to find tucked-away green places. This particular green place, steeped in industrial heritage, is pleasingly rural and good for wildlife, with a wealth of history en route and distant views to Dartmoor.

The Templer Way is an 18-mile path between Dartmoor and the coast, which for part of its route runs alongside the Stover Canal. This walk uses some of the Templer Way; look out for the logo which comprises a tramway wheel, for the granite tramways on Dartmoor, and the tiller and rudder of a barge.

The trees may be bare, the sky grey, but it’s Ideal for a short, sharp blowing away of the cobwebs on a winter’s day.

ROUTE:

1 Leave the car park, cross the road with care, and pass through the footpath gate on the opposite side. Turn immediately left through another gate, walking along a narrow path parallel to the road, field to the right. In 200m you reach blue and white signs indicating the Stover Trail. Keep ahead here for a few metres; this is now part of the surfaced Sustrans Cycle Route 28.

2 Go through a gateway and as the surfaced path swings right keep ahead to an information board which explains some of the local history.

The two-mile Stover Canal was built in the late 18th century by James Templer who owned the Stover Estate. The canal transported clay used in pottery and, for a while, granite which was quarried on Dartmoor (see Devon Life walk, July 2016). The freight was taken to the sea at Teignmouth. Take a moment to read the information board – the area has seen big changes over the centuries.

Turn right from the information board following a stony path; the depression to the left of this path is the site of the old canal (the cycle path is to your right, through the trees).

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