Best Elephants Nest Walk | Mary Tavy to Peter Tavy Circular |
This is a must do pub walk if you are in the area.
Former landlord Charles Ossington weighed more than 20 stone and served pints from his stool behind the bar. A customer joked that he looked like “an elephant sitting on a nest” — a remark that inspired the pub’s official name change to The Elephant’s Nest Inn.
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 | Elephants Nest Pub Moorland |
Walks start in Mary Tavy and passes the famous Elephant's Nest pub.
Walk 1 (5.4 miles)
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This delightful & varied 5 mile hike follows the Dartmoor Way to Peter Tavy passing the famous Elephant's Nest pub.
- It turns East into a bridle way and later a footpath crossing a moor towards Boulters Tor.
- You return via Horndon not far from the Elephant's Nest.
At the pub (PL19 9NQ) , for those who do not mind wetlands & steep ladders across hedges, there is an alternative way via Kingsett Farm - see Yellow line on map NOT included in the gpx file.
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altitude range | 72 - 173 m |
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Elephant's Nest Walk 1
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