Princetown and Foggintor Quarry on the old railway

Six miles out and back across the high central moor on a clear stony track, three hours with 170 metres of climbing, past South Hessary Tor and the boundary stones to the medieval cross at Nun's Cross and the leat above Foxtor Mires. Start at the National Park visitor centre car park in Princetown, which is paid, large and the last reliable toilets and water tap before the moor; the route is a track all the way so it is navigable in mist when the surrounding moor is not. Dogs get miles of open running here, but this is working common with sheep, cattle and ponies everywhere and skylarks nesting in the grass, so a lead is required between 1 March and 31 July, the mire either side of the track will swallow a dog that wanders, and there is no clean water until the leat.