Community Walk – Saturday 16th July Route: Luckett, Greenscombe Wood and Nature Reserve Meet 10am at Gunnislake Car Park for car share or 10.15am at Luckett village car park – everyone welcome.
GCM COMMUNITY WALK SATURDAY 16TH JULY 2022
GUNNISLAKE VILLAGE MARKET RETURNS!
Good news that this excellent community event is returning to the Village Hall! The Village Hall committee decided to revive the village market on the first Saturday of each month – so the first one will be held on Saturday
GUNNISLAKE GARDENING CLUB update
Just a reminder that there will be no meeting of Gunnislake Gardening Club in January 2022. The next meeting will be on Wednesday 2nd February at 7.30 p.m. in Gunnislake Village Hall when George Mitchell will give a talk on his passion about bugs. See Clubs & Societies for more information about the club. Novice gardeners very welcome. We are all always learning something new!
HAPPY NEW YEAR from the Editors
We wish you a very happy New Year, 2022, and a warm welcome to you if you have just moved into the area. There is a lot of useful information on this website. And if you have any event or business you would like to publicise, please contact us via the Contact Us page. We hope you enjoy our beautiful valley.
FROGWELL – Walk & Talk
A thick blanket of grey hovered overhead as Ray and I headed towards Callington free car park this morning while mizzle hung about in the air; how many would venture out today we wondered? The plan was to car share
Yelverton – Walk and Talk
Yelverton is a scattered hamlet on the western edge of Dartmoor National Park with an assortment of homes, a parade of shops and two or three pubs plus some excellent walking trails. Two different routes from here have appeared on
GARDENING CLUB TO GROW IN GUNNISLAKE
The hilly village of Gunnislake benefits from its position in the fruitful Tamar Valley. There are plenty of productive and beautiful gardens, often good healthy soil and plenty of both rainfall and sunshine. Now enough interested gardeners are about to
Community Walk – 22nd August 2021 at 10am
Join us on our next Community walk. It is a distance of about 2.5 miles along the Tamar Trails footpaths. Either meet in Gunnislake Car Park to lift share, or at the Sawmills Car Park, next to the Beach Cafe
The new ‘mini’ December/January edition of the Gunnislake Gateway can be found here!
Please take a look at the flipbook below; to advertise or to send in articles for the next issue email: gunnislakegateway@yahoo.co.uk or drop articles into the post office. Backdated issues of the Gunnislake Gateway can be found on the link below: https://gunnislake.org/gunnislake-gateway/
The new ‘mini’ October/November edition of the Gunnislake Gateway can be found here!
Please take a look at the flipbook below; to advertise or to send in articles for the next issue email: gunnislakegateway@yahoo.co.uk or drop articles into the post office. Backdated issues of the Gunnislake Gateway can be found on the link
The new ‘mini’ edition of the Gunnislake Gateway can be found here!
Please take a look at the flipbook below; to advertise or to send in articles for the next issue email: gunnislakegatewy@yahoo.co.uk or drop articles into the post office. Backdated issues of the Gunnislake Gateway can be found on the
Cancelled: Armed Forces & Veterans Breakfast Club
Gunnislake now has it’s own Armed Forces Veterans Breakfast Club, joining those already set up around the country. After an inaugural meeting in August 2019, the breakfast club officially started in September and has gone from strength to strength. The
TAVISTOCK to MAGPIE BRIDGE along DRAKE’S TRAIL – Walk and Talk
During the next two weeks we will be walking along different sections of Drake’s Trail which you are sure to know was named after the famous Elizabethan sea-farer, Sir Francis Drake; this 21 mile cycling and walking route links Tavistock
YELVERTON to CLEARBROOK Walk and Talk
Once at the scattered village of Yelverton just five miles north of Plymouth we wasted no time signing in and after a brief talk we were off on another of my favourite walks. Somewhere hereabouts Yelverton once had a railway
DISCOVERY TRAIL, LOPWELL DAM and the MARISTOW ESTATE Walk and Talk
Once again we will be following part of the Discovery Trail but this time as it travels beside the River Tavy, one of the tributaries of the mighty Tamar. Both sides of this river are in Devon with Lopwell Dam
RAILWAY STATION CELEBRATIONS
Gunnislake Railway Station has been at its current site for 25 years, as of the 6th June 2019. On that very day, Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership organised an afternoon of celebrations. They combined the event with the official unveiling
BERE ALSTON and the River Tamar (version 1) Walk and Talk
It seems so long since we last did this walk on the Devon side of the River Tamar but with so many in our programme to choose from, they don’t come round very often and the fine weather certainly brought
RIVER LYNHER and FROGWELL – Walk and Talk
The inky blue water in the River Lynher appeared to be barely moving today as we watched it flow beneath the ancient bridge and then alongside us as we set off through the shadowy interior of Cadsonbury Woods. There is
TOKENBURY CORNER and TRETHEVY QUOIT – Walk and Talk
Gusty winds almost blew us off our feet when we stepped from our cars at the little car park at Tokenbury Corner but that was nothing compared with what was to come. The nearest settlement on this south-eastern fringe of
BERE FERRERS to THORN POINT 2019 – Walk and Talk
Today is Wednesday 1st May or May Day and is celebrated in many different ways throughout the world so before recounting how our walk turned out, I will just describe how here in Britain some people still dance around a maypole that is