Start/Finish Bennett’s Cross car park, SX 680/816 Total distance 10.3km (6.4 miles) Total ascent 346m (1135 ft) Total time 1-2 hours Maps OS Landranger No.191 1:50K Okehampton and N Dartmoor, Harveys Dartmoor for Cyclists’, Garmin GB Discoverer 1:25K Dartmoor and Exmoor (GPS) Summary Moorland trails and fun rocky singletrack. 1. Pass stone cross, go uphill on singletrack parallel with road on left. Crest hill and turn right on a road. Turn right again on bridleway track, for trail to a farm. 2. Bear right uphill, then drop down on rocky track to a crosstracks in the open, by some ruins. Turn left to the woods and through gate then right at the fork. 3. Follow bridleway ahead/right (leaving forest track), through forest to a gate (woods on the right, open land on left) continue ahead to Soussons farm. Go through a gate to farm and follow Challacombe Farm bridleway. 4. Continue along field edge, towards the wood but turn right through a gate in a wall before reaching them. Follow track to right, downhill, over stream, then uphill, joining a better track, through a farm. 5. As the drive bears right to the road, keep ahead through a gate on the bridleway, bearing left through the farm and a gate, re-joining the track from before, down to the crosstracks. 6. Turn right, uphill and keep ahead on singletrack as the wider track turns left. Continue on this singletrack, with a couple of steep and technical challenges, back to the car park. by wmbsu
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