9th May

We walked from Knowstone to Tarr Steps today, which was a lovely varied walk.  We reached the beginning of Exmoor which was a real milestone!  We walked about 11.5 miles.

Shortly after leaving Knowstone and walking over a number of fields, we found this tree with a hole in - Tim tried to get in the picture (you can just see his elbow)! 

When we reached Exmoor itself we found the other half of the stone sculpture with holes in it; this one made quite a good noise when you rubbed your hands over it.

A Peter Randall-Page sculpture

Quite a lot of up and down today, but the views at the top were tremendous.

We also had to wait for a digger and dumper truck to move off the road to get through as there was no other way - putting in water pipes I believe.

Road closed!

Lunch was taken in the porch of the quaint church of St Giles, as it was a bit colder today and we wanted to shelter from the wind.  This church has a history going right back to the 13th century, and had a good set of 6 bells that get used quite a bit I believe - 2 of the bells are medieval.

St Giles' church Hawksworth

We met Phil and Carol at Tarr steps and we all had ice creams :)

I've got my eye on you!