The Road of Swords, Saints and Haunted Water
The Road of Swords, Saints and Haunted Water
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The Road of Swords, Saints and Haunted Water

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Somerset/Cornwall/Devon

A west-country route through Arthur graves, clootie rags, cliff castles, Excalibur water, a devil-built tor church and Dartmoor’s haunted oakwood.

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Route map0 stops · 3 along the way
Plan your visit
Getting there
Long West Country road trip from Glastonbury through west Cornwall and across Dartmoor; car is essential.
Parking
Main visitor car parks at Glastonbury and Tintagel; rural/moorland parking is limited at wells, pools and woods.
Best time
Spring or autumn; avoid peak Tintagel crowds and check Dartmoor weather before moorland stops.
Terrain
Clifftop steps, holy-well paths, moorland tracks, woodland edges and long scenic drives.

The trip story

0 stops

    Some site IDs in this trip weren't found in the sheet: glastonbury-abbey, glastonbury-tor, madron-well-and-clootie-tree, tintagel-castle, dozmary-pool, st-michael-de-rupe-brentor, wistmans-wood

    What remains

    What remains is a road where Christianity, Arthur and folk dread keep borrowing the same hills, waters and stones from one another.

    Along the way

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