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This walk: 2012-8-8. Sheep, Willsworthy Firing Range hut, Wheal Jewell Leat, Ger Tor, Reddaford Farm, firing range features, bog asphodel, cross-leaved heath, Yellowmead farm, WD 37 military range boundary stone, Lich Way, common polypody, Willsworthy Manor Pound, Lower Willsworthy.

Walk details below - Information about the route etc.

Link to Google Satellite view of the area - the car park is approximately in the centre of the map.

Lane Head car park sign, just up the lane from Lane End (cottage) on the southern edge of the Willsworthy Firing Range (no red flag flying today, it being August).

Sheep suddenly started passing the car park; they wouldn't go through the gate because of a cattle grid .....

They were being driven by two sheep dogs while the farmer followed in a Land Rover.

Willsworthy Firing Range, hut seen up close on 20th April 2011.

"Mine Leat" on the map, becoming Wheal Jewell Leat (see 20th April 2011).

View of the structure of the leat bank in this area.

Ger Tor, 546 830, elevation 430 metres (1410 feet) at the entrance to Tavy Cleave which is over the hill from here.

The effect of the mist/dew/rain caught up on the grass .....

Closer view, they were big drops of water.

Here beginneth the lesson at Reddaford Farm, Willsworthy, an old abandoned farm: this stone is believed to be the back of the old fireplace. The link leads to a wealth of information, being a report by Dr Tom Greaves, who we met in the car park before this walk!

An overview of the remains of the old farmstead. The earliest definite record of a dwelling here is from 1334 and there is an earlier reference to the name from 1242 AD.

A view from the farm looking west - or slightly north of due west.

The stone has a dressed edge, being doubly fluted .....

An overview .....

The other face, possibly still showing signs of ages-old soot.

Feature in a nearby field, old lazy beds?

Another view of the leat.

Starting off across the "orange field".

"The house on the hill" - seen up close 1st September 2010.

Firing range features.

Possible old tin mine workings, where nothing grows, or old firing points - looking similar to the previous photo and in the same area? On further thought, the bare patches are probably old firing points, gravel-filled, as seen on 20th April 2011. 

Bog asphodel, Narthecium ossifragum .....

Close-up.

Cross-leaved heath, Erica tetralix - also, see HERE for a comparison of the heathers.

Yellowmead Farm, long abandoned, not to be confused with Yellowmead Farm (painted yellow) at Merrivale or the Yellowmead Down multiple stone circle, near Gutter Tor and the Scout Hut. This abandoned farmstead is on private land. Click the photograph to see a larger version.