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Extract from the Lydford Travel Guides:
Five miles southwest of Okehampton, the village of
LYDFORD
boasts the sturdy but small-scale Lydford Castle, a Saxon outpost, then a Norman keep and later used as a prison. The chief attraction here, though, is
Lydford Gorge
(April-Sept 10am-5.30pm; Oct 10am-4pm; Nov-March 10.30am-3pm; 3.60; NT), whose main entrance is a five-minute walk downhill. Two routes - one above, one along the banks - follow the ravine burrowed through by the River Lyd as far as the hundred-foot White Lady Waterfall, coming back on the opposite bank. Overgrown with thick woods, the one-and-a-half-mile gorge is alive with butterflies, spotted...
read the whole Lydford Travel Guides...
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