A trail guide to walking the Dart Valley Trail by Matthew Arnold

A trail guide to walking the Dart Valley Trail by Matthew Arnold

A helpful and practical pocket guide to walking the long-distance Dart Valley Trail.

The Dart Valley Trail is a walk along one of the most scenic rivers in Devon, the River Dart. The trail begins in Dartmouth Harbour, a town long associated with naval activity and home to the prestigious Britannia Royal Naval College. From here, the path leads along and over the rising hills and wooded banks of the Dart Valley. The variety of landscape provides striking views up and down the valley as well as beyond to Dartmoor National Park. En route, you will pass through the picturesque villages of Dittisham, Tuckenhay, Cornworthy, and Ashprington before finally arriving in Totnes. All these villages provide a different selection of cosy pubs, waterside restaurants, and places to stay.

This guide contains:

• Detailed 1:25 000 OS maps covering the entire route
• Directions for the route broken down into easily manageable legs
• A suggested kit list, also available for free to download
• Places of interest and village amenities such as historic locations, accommodation, eateries, and public facilities
• Full six-figure grid reference for GPS reference
• Colour photography throughout
• Travel information

Matthew Arnold was born in Middlesex in 1822, the son of a headmaster of Rugby public school. He was educated at Winchester, Rugby and Oxford, becoming briefly a Fellow before leaving academia for work and travel followed by being appointed an inspector of schools, a post which informed many of his essays and in which he produced a series of trenchant educational reports championing his ideas on culture, society and education until his retirement in 1886. At the same time, he started publishing poetry in 1849, and produced a range of lyric, elegiac, narrative and dramatic verse over the next decade, of which The Scholar Gypsy and Dover Beach are the best-known items. In 1858 he was appointed to the chair of professor of poetry at Oxford, but published only one more volume of poetry himself, in 1867. He turned his attention instead to essays, first in literary criticism (criticism of vernacular literatures being then a new field) then society, politics and culture, and finally, in the 1870s, theology, though the essays frequently range across these disciplines with few separations. Culture and Anarchy, published in 1869, is considered his greatest single work. Matthew Arnold died in 1888.

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ISBN 13	9781999950927
ISBN 10	1999950925
Title	A trail guide to walking the Dart Valley Trail
Author	Matthew Arnold
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Trail Wanderer Publications
Year published	2018-09-24
Number of pages	62
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.