The best traffic-free bike rides around Ashprington

Very picturesque little village in the Dart Valley. One road leads in, one out. Parking was easy at the pub, outside of peak season. If you cross the bridge in the middle of the village, a small hiking trail branches off that leads along the river bank - very beautiful!

It is open exactly when the pub 500m away in Tuckenhay is open - the same goes for the kitchen. Both pubs and their menus are very similar.

Unfortunately, it's more of an expensive restaurant than a village pub. There's nothing to eat between breakfast, lunch and dinner. Large parking lot and an even larger beer garden.

The bridge is only 100m away.... If you are not particularly adventurous, you will enjoy walking

Cornworthy Priory is located at the western end of Cornworthy village, south of Bow Creek on the Dart estuary. The site includes the remains of an Augustinian nunnery active from the early 13th century until 1536. Visible remains consist of ruined stone structures and low earthworks, including the substantial 15th-century gatehouse. The gatehouse, measuring 9.5m by 6m, features two arched passageways, a spiral stair, and an upper room. A precinct wall, recently revealed, stands 15m long and 3.9m high. The priory was dissolved in 1536, with the gatehouse now a Grade I listed ruin. The area is managed to preserve its historical and natural features.

Cornworthy Priory was a priory in Devon, England. It was founded in the early thirteenth century, for Augustinian nuns, and existed until 1536.[1] At the Dissolution of the Monasteries the lands passed to the Harris family, and remained in the family until the 1640s. Thomas Harris who was a Serjeant-at-Law lived here with his wife Elizabeth. Their daughter, Anne, Lady Southwell, who was a noted poet, was born here

The monument includes a free-standing stone cross situated in the angle of the junction of two roads; to Luscombe and Harberton. It stands on partly grassed open ground, probably in its original position and may date from the 15th century. The cross is Listed Grade II. The cross comprises a heavy octagonal base of granite, surmounted by a granite shaft whose upper half was replaced in 1895. The base, which is 0.75m high, is partly buried in the turf which is raised here in a low mound. It measures 1.13m across its flat sides, and has a heavily chamfered upper part, below a rough roll moulding. Above this, the top is slightly convex with the shaft socketed in and set with lead. The shaft, of rectangular section, has oblique chamfers on all four corners, with pyramid stops to the base. The medieval shaft survives to 0.85m high and tapers in width from 0.27m at the base to 0.32m at its top and in thickness from 0.26m to 0.23m. Heavy directional letters have been dressed onto all four flat sides: T - Totnes (north side), D - Dartmouth (east), K - Kingsbridge (south), and B - Brent (west). Beneath these some smaller letters, probably initials, are crudely incised. In 1895, a new upper shaft and Celtic wheel head, 1.2m higher than the original cross, was added with additional Roman numerals for the distances involved. These do not match up, and it is obvious that the cross head was put on the wrong way round. The original head could have been lost during the Reformation in the 16th century. The letters are typical of granite direction posts of the 17th century in this area. The modern road surface is excluded from the scheduling where it falls within the 2m protective margin of the cross, although the ground beneath it is included.

Sunday lunch smelled delicious. Had a nice pint sat by the river. I'll be back for food after seeing that 😋