Plym Valley (National Trust), Shaugh Prior, Dartmoor National Park

Plym Valley (National Trust), Shaugh Prior, Dartmoor National Park

If you look at the Ordnance Survey Landranger 191 'Okehampton and North Dartmoor' map, you'll see three blocks of moorland and wooded valley demarcated as National Trust land. This is what we refer to as Plym Valley (National Trust).

Roughly speaking, and following the OS map, the River Plym here runs from the north east to the south west. The block of National Trust land to the north east is high moorland on Dartmoor's south moor.

The central block of National Trust Land extends from Cadover Bridge down to Shaugh Bridge along the stunning Dewerstone Valley.

The final block of National Trust land covers Plymbridge Woods and ends at Plym Bridge. South of this, along Drake's Trail, is the National Trust property Saltram House.