A strenuous 11 mile walk with 1600ft of ascents. The walk is from John Noblet’s excellent Longer Walks book.
Starting at Lydford car park (£5.60 - share cars or park for free nearby on the road or by the Granite Way). We head along the West Devon Way over Fernworthy Down then cross the A386 to Nodden Gate climbing to Great Nodden. We do a sharp turn at the tramway junction heading towards Great Links Tor, Arms Tor, Brat Tor and Widgery Cross. We track the river Lyd passing Witches Pool and the memorial at Black Rock before heading back to the car park.
The car park has a toilet block but it was locked when I was last there.