Things To Do near Lanehead
Best Dartmoor Walks With Kids, Dartmoor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 14 miles away)
How difficult are Dartmoor walks with kids? Dartmoor is a great starter National Park for kids. The terrain is relatively gentle. Our youngest daughter wandered up to High Willhays (the highest point on Dartmoor and in southern England) when she was four. Every year, children as young as 13* comp...
Avon Dam Reservoir Circular Walk, South Brent, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 14 miles away)
This circular walk takes in a beautiful river valley, one of Dartmoor's most stunning reservoir settings and high moorland. It also includes a short stretch of the Abbot's Way as marked on Ordnance Survey maps. Highly recommended if you want to explore the south eastern corner of Dartmoor Natio...
Avon Dam Reservoir Valley, South Brent, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 14 miles away)
The River Avon rises on remote moorland and flows into the Avon Dam Reservoir. From there, beyond the dam wall, it cuts a stunning valley as it meanders down to the car parking area at Shipley Bridge. The stretch of valley between the dam and Shipley Bridge is exceptionally popular with wa...
Bovey Valley Woodlands, Bovey Tracey, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 14 miles away)
Bovey Valley Woodlands, or Bovey Valley Woods, is a collective term for three woods that sit at the lower end of the Bovey Valley. These woods are Pullabrook Wood (Pullbrook on the Ordnance Survey Explorer OL28 'Dartmoor' map), Hisley Wood and Houndtor Wood. The woods are part of the East Dartmoor N...
Lustleigh Cleave Lookout Rock (1), Lustleigh, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 14 miles away)
Walk Dartmoor's many wooded valleys and it can be difficult to find a viewpoint. Given how beautiful these places are, this can be an immensely frustrating experience. Thankfully, in Lustleigh Cleave, there is a line of rocky outcrops high up the north valley wall. Some of these outcrops, such as Sh...
Lustleigh Cleave Lookout Rock (2), Lustleigh, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 14 miles away)
Read the listing for Lustleigh Cleave Lookout Rock (1). It describes the first lookout over Lustleigh Cleave. It also provides directions. From Lookout Rock (1), as mentioned in that listing, you can follow a faint track a few minutes east to a second rocky outcrop to which we refer as Lookout Ro...
Templer Way, Dartmoor, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 14 miles away)
Haytor Rocks is, arguably, Dartmoor National Park's most famous tor. The rocks rise from Haytor Down which is peppered with disused quarries and crossed by an old tramway on which granite was transported from the moors down to Stover Canal and then to the coast at Teignmouth from where the rock was...
Rider's Rings, South Brent, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 14 miles away)
Rider's Rings, or Ryder's Rings, is an ancient settlement on high moorland situated on the western lip of the Avon Dam Reservoir Valley. We've positioned Rider's Rings on Google maps. Zoom in on the 'Satellite' setting to see its location. To visit, head for the car parking area at Shipley Bridge...
Three Barrows, Harford, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 14 miles away)
In the south of Dartmoor National Park and just off the Two Moors Way. At 461m, it's the highest point in this section of the Park and offers superb panoramic views. The walk from the car park just east of Harford is straightforward.
Harton Chest (Lustleigh Cleave), Lustleigh, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 14 miles away)
Harton Chest is a well known viewing point high up in Lustleigh Cleave. It's a collection of huge rocks that jut out of surrounding woodland. Exposed, there are big drops so this experience is not for those with a fear of heights. The Bovey Valley opens out far below. The views are huge and remarkab...
Manaton Old Road, Manaton, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 14 miles away)
A road climbs from Bovey Tracey and the National Trust's Parke Estate to Trendlebere Down. From there, it continues to Becky Falls Woodland Park, Water/Freeland and Manaton. At the bottom of Trendlebere Down there's a byway open to all traffic that runs through Houndtor Wood to Water/Freelan...
Lustleigh Cleave, Lustleigh, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 14 miles away)
[Main photo: Manaton, Hayne Down and Hamel Down seen from the broad ridge that runs along the top of Lustleigh Cleave] Stunning section of the Bovey Valley on the eastern side of Dartmoor Many of Devon's most famous rivers rise on the high moors and flow down to the coast. On their w...
New Waste, Cornwood, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 14 miles away)
Whilst you can no longer park at New Waste, it still offers great access to the Stall Moor area of Dartmoor which includes the world's longest stone row in addition to arguably the finest stone row in the National Park near Stalldown Barrow. We've positioned New Waste on Google maps. Zoom in on t...
Clam Bridge, Manaton, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 14 miles away)
The River Bovey cuts a beautiful valley between Foxworthy Bridge and Drakeford Bridge. Lustleigh Cleave dominates the upper section of the valley. Houndtor Wood and Hisley Wood are beautiful downstream. Towards the middle of the valley, next to a modern, wooden footbridge is Clam Bridge. Fenced off...
River Dart Adventures, Ashburton, Dartmoor National Park (approx. 14 miles away)
Family attraction River Dart Adventures is an outdoor adventure park located within the River Dart Country Park on the outskirts of Ashburton near the eastern border of Dartmoor National Park. A family attraction, kids love it. As a day visitor, you pay to enter River Dart Country Park and the...