Hembury Woods

Being some woods complete with ancient fort, above the Dart and to the east of Holne.

With the snap above illustrating a convenient way to carry maps about when out of reach of telephone Internet - although I did find that other people with EE did rather better than I did with O2. Take picture and make it into a favourite, this last so that it does not get lost in the depths of the camera roll.

We were staying at Fore Stoke, top left, with views over another bit of the Dart, just visible. There was also a Middle Stoke, a Seale's Stoke and a West Stoke, off the map to the left; a square mile of so of farmable land between the river and the moor. The beer mug at Holne presently an error, but we did hear talk of progress on that front. Maybe it will be up and running when next we visit.

Looking east towards the Dart from the top of the ancient fort. We failed to find the heritage board found in the course of our last visit, more than two years ago now, and noticed at reference 1.

A portion of the bank and ditch enclosing the fort, with the fort being to the left.

There were some older parts, but a lot of the wood was relatively young, perhaps down to livestock not so long ago.

We thought a relic of the second world war. Maybe the ground where we now have woods was used for some kind of training.

The Dart at the bottom of the woods. The place where we saw the unusual ducks noticed at reference 2. Unusual to us, in any event.

An oddly serious fence between Hembury Woods and North Wood, confusingly to the east. It would do to keep deer on one side or the other, but it would also have been a serious expense. See map above.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/tree-visits.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/tweetholne.html.