Author: Andrew Coombes

Rural Resource Management Degree out of the sadly defunct Seal Hayne faculty of Food, Agriculture and Land use. Ruined for life by finding a copy of John Grimshaw’s disused railway study in the college library. The rest as they say is history… Now holed up on an island 28 miles off Land’s End but still getting my disused railway fix thanks to Covid and decent broadband.

Threading a greenway through Dartmoor. Can it really be that difficult?

Andrew Coombes 25/09/2021

A recent West Country Voices article on the joys of mountain biking on Dartmoor reminded me how slow we have been to develop some pretty obvious cycling routes. The one that nags at me is the railway track from Yelverton to Princetown, disused since the line was closed 65 years ago. It is, sadly, not […]