After visiting tavistock pannier market take a stroll down to tavistock park you can walk along the canal the children can feed the ducks while you can watch the tennis or bowling on the opposite side of the canal bank the park has a wonderful selection of beautiful trees and shrubs after exploring the park you can return to the town by walking back on the banks of the river tavy up abbey. Tavistock canal ordnance survey map view and print off detailed os map tavistock canal open street map view and print off detailed map.
Tavistock canal and park.
Tavistock canal map. Follow the old tavistock canal from tavistock to morewhellam quay. Not only was the canal built for transport it was designed in a way to be a power source for local farms and mines. One of the best ways to appreciate the tavistock s canal is with a circular walk designed to showcase it and its surrounding history.
Tavistock canal walk tavistock dartmoor national park start from the large car parking area in the centre of tavistock by tavistock the wharf. The tavistock canal is a canal in the county of devon in england it was constructed early in the 19th century to link the town of tavistock to morwellham quay on the river tamar where cargo could be loaded into ships the canal is still in use to supply water to a hydro electric power plant at morwellham quay and forms part of the cornwall and west devon mining landscape world heritage site. After visiting tavistock pannier market take a stroll down to tavistock park you can walk along the canal the children can feed the ducks while you can watch the tennis or bowling on the opposite side of the canal bank the park has a wonderful selection of beautiful trees and.
The abbot s way long distance trail will take you from the ruins of tavistock abbey to buckfast abbey 22 miles to the east of the town. We spent a nice day doing the walk and got a ride back from morwhellam quay. You could also pick up the west devon way which passes through tavistock.
See the tavistock river walk page for more details. Tavistock viaduct ordnance survey map view and print off detailed os map tavistock viaduct open street map view and print off detailed map. We ve positioned this car park on google maps so zoom in on the satellite setting of the accompanying map to see its location.
This was intended to make the canal banks a very desirable. We walked from tavistock quay to the limit of permissible walking beyond the lumburn aqueduct and then back again the walk took two hours. The canal has a slight gradient one foot per mile which allowed its flow to be used by approx.
But the tavistock canal was different to other canals. Adjacent to the canal you will find the river tavy where there are nice surfaced footpaths to follow along a rushing weir. I had already bought an interesting booklet about the history of the canal from the tourist information office and this made the walk.
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