Tuesday 2nd February - Clearbrook

A good turnout as 16 set out from Clearbrook. Our route was to take us over Roborough Down. The A386 goes right through the middle of it so this would be an area we were all very familiar with - wrong!

We headed to Drakes Leat, which was built in 1793 to supply water to Devonport. Following the building of Burrator Reservoir the leat is now dry. A short distance away was the old Harrowbear airdrome. We passed by the decoy airfield where you could still see some of the bases for the runway lights.

It was then across the main road and up to the earthworks thought to be the remains of an old hill fort. The trig point is next to this.

A short walk to find these ponds which are the remains of old mine workings from the Yeolands Consul mines.

A threatening sky and rainbow (although it only resulted in a short shower).

At the side of the Yelverton golf course we found the remains of more mine workings.

Onwards to the small monument commemorating Queen Victoria's Jubilee (which is right next to the main road) and the nearby drinking fountain. Just behind is the famous Roborough Rock with the man from BT fixing something in the foreground. A short stop here for our coffee break.

It was then across the road to the cycle path with the remains of the Plymouth and South Devon horse-drawn tramway. We diverted off the cycle path under the old railway line and.....





















.... followed the footpath through the woods to...

....the remains of the old Yeolands mine. In the foreground you can see the remains of one of several buddles and near to this are...

 .... the remains of an old wheel pit.

A short walk to the Skylark. There were 16 of us for lunch and this clearly generated some stress for the Landlord! Surprisingly the food was served very quickly and was of an excellent standard.

With Anne, Stella, Brenda, Jane, Ann, Amber, Dianne, Colin, Peter, Charlie, Jon, Bill, Colin, Roger, David and Tom.