It was a mild overcast day for the first walk of the Devon GOC 2015 season. Mike our leader started the walk with a short visit to a Victorian Experimental Brick Drying Site and gave a brief talk on the area and what had been envisaged.

A 'Baker's Dozen' of walkers headed on a moderate climb from the confluence of the rivers Plym and Meavy, through what had been heavily industrialised countryside and on to West Down and North Wood. The walk followed the side of Plym Valley and a clay pipe that had been used to move clay slurry from the China Clay Mine on the moor to the drying pits lower down. We continued to Cadover Bridge and the edge of Dartmoor, here we then headed onto moorland and our lunch break at a Bronze Aged Hut. Having lunch at a 3000 year old house on Dartmoor is something especially amazing. We continued our walk down the hill towards Urgles and the valley bottom where we followed the Meavy and encountered more abandoned industrial sites.

It was not long before we returned to our start-point where we received instructions from Mike on how to get to his home for the 2015 walk planning meeting.

The meeting started with tea, cakes and a chat before getting down to the main subject, planning walks for the remainder of 2015. A full programme of walks was agreed and brief details should be available soon on the Devon GOC Pages.