A Walk in English Weather Posts

In response to the air raids that reduced much of Plymouth city centre to rubble at the start of 1941, my dad and his mother evacuated to stay on West Bohetherick Farm. This walk explores the landscape of Bohetherick and its agricultural and market gardening heritage.

Not every walk provides a lesson. Why should it? But this walk did give me one. It reminded me of the need to get out of the ruts we form for ourselves when we walk our usual haunts, and the need to sometimes depart from our self-made beaten track.

Packhorse tracks were the medieval equivalent of motorways, moving goods overland between important commercial centres. The route over Roborough Down on superficial inspection looks relatively featureless but there is a lot more going on than first meets the eye.