View from Blanchdown Wood – Blanchdown Wood loop from Sydenham Damerel
View from Blanchdown Wood – Blanchdown Wood loop from Sydenham Damerel
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View from Blanchdown Wood – Blanchdown Wood loop from Sydenham Damerel
02:14
18.5km
440m
Running
Hard run. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.
Last updated: May 21, 2026
Tips
Your route passes through a protected area
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Tamar Valley National Landscape
Waypoints
Start point
Guest House
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9.16 km
Beech Cafe at Tamar Trails Centre
Highlight • Rest Area
There is a network of 25km of waymarked trails to explore here as well as bike hire and toilets.
Check out the website for more info tamartrails.co.uk
Tip by
9.25 km
Morwellham & Tamar Trails Map
Highlight • Rest Area
Tip by
11.4 km
View of Tamar Valley
Highlight • Forest
Tip by
11.7 km
Wheal Anna Maria Calciner Complex
Highlight • Structure
It was named after the Duchess of Bedford!
Her main workings were on the ‘Main Lode‘ (the largest sulphide deposit in southwest England).
When its rich copper waned, Devon Great Consols became the largest arsenic mine in the world because the margins of the copper-rich lode were dominated by arsenopyrite.
In 1860 the copper lode at Anna Maria was up to 45 feet wide and yielding up to 80 tons per fathom, but by around 1880 the copper boom was over. Thankfully, arsenic production sustained the mine into the 1900s, until the company folded.
Arsenic ore, unlike copper ore, was refined on site using the ‘calcination’ process – and at Wheal Anna Maria they yielded over 72,000 tons of refined arsenic! – Whoop!
Tip by
11.8 km
View from Blanchdown Wood
Highlight • Forest
Look down and you will see the spoil heaps of the Great Devon Consols, the name of the mine once situated here. First copper and then arsenic was mined here and signs of the long gone industry can be seen throughout Blanchdown Wood.
Tip by
11.9 km
Blanchdown Wood
Highlight • Forest
The woods are home to plenty of hiking and bike trails, and offer plenty of scope for exploration.
Tip by
18.5 km
End point
Guest House
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
8.81 km
5.00 km
2.22 km
1.48 km
885 m
Surfaces
6.97 km
4.24 km
3.31 km
2.41 km
1.48 km
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Elevation
Highest point (130 m)
Lowest point (20 m)
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