Training day 10 - Circular route around Grampound - 8 miles / 2.5 hours
http://www.grampound.org.uk/visitor/leaflet4.pdf
A lovely spring day with my thoughts on getting back home before the Olympic torch routes brought the roads to a standstill suggested a local, flattish, beautiful inland walk on my doorstep.
Setting off from Grampound down quiet country lanes I stumbled across Creed Church.
Interesting fact:
A previous rector Rev William Gregor, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gregor, was celebrated for his discovery of titanium.
Lovely church. Taking a permissive path behind the church I headed off along the upper reaches of the River Fal. You might be surprised to know that Grampound was once home to a deep and busy waterway with a Roman encampment nearby: http://www.grampound.org.uk/history/index.html. Reaching a farmtrack I turned right through Golden Mill past an old chapel towards Probus via Sunrising to Trewithen gardens (you just have to visit earlier in the year when their Magnolia trees are out - magnificent! http://www.trewithengardens.co.uk/trewithen-gardens. Past Trewithen down a bridleway and back to Grampound on a parallel 'Roman road' past the earthwork of Carvossa, http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/744/carvossa_enclosure.html (aside: this link is to 'The Modern Antiquarian' by Julian Cope (ex teardrop Explodes) - a fantastic tome) in use between 1st and 4th centuries AD and once covered 5 acres. Back down the old Turnpike road into Grampound for a Mary's pasty....ansome!
PS thanks Linzi for Oscar duties x
PPS Nothing to do with the walk but later on in St Stephen the Olympic flame went past. Not something that happens every day!
Thought for the day: There is a light that never goes out (Morrissey/Marr) from The Queen is Dead (or the Princess in my case) ...... she is my eternal flame. R.I.P.
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Smiths/The+Queen+Is+Dead/There+Is+a+Light+That+Never+Goes+Out
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