Wynmelvin » Roughtor Ford http://blog.wynmelvin.com [ the blog ] Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:15:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 September 20th, 2009 http://blog.wynmelvin.com/2009/09/september-20th-2009/ http://blog.wynmelvin.com/2009/09/september-20th-2009/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:06:23 +0000 Russell http://blog.wynmelvin.com/?p=419 WADEBRIDGE — My last day in Cornwall was a relaxing one. I headed north to Camelford and just past the market town I turned right and headed down the road to Tregoodwell and kept going until the road ran out.

The road ended in a car park just before Roughtor Ford, the site where Charlotte Dymond was murdered in 1844. Not far from the ford is a monument that was put up by public subscription in 1844 and it was this that I had come to see. The car park was a staging area for people intending to walk across Bodmin Moor to Roughtor, and I briefly entertained the idea of walking a little way onto the moor. The ground was a little boggy in places and I didn’t think my footwear was really up for the task (and that was just getting to the memorial), though I did prove the manufacturer’s claim that they were water-proofed.

Shortly before noon I headed back to the main road and proceeded towards Boscastle. Or so I thought. Amazing how disoriented you can get when you think you’re on one road when you’re actually on another. Village names that you’re not expecting appear on roadside signs so you pull over as soon as you can (which probably won’t be for miles) and take a look at the map for the last village you passed through. Of course you’re looking at that part of the map where you thought you were! Eventually I found out where I was and headed towards Boscastle (for real).

Which reminds me that I filled the car with petrol yesterday at £1.09/litre (which I think is the equivalent of about NZ$2.51/litre). The car seems to do about 100 miles/quarter tank. After filling up the display told me I could travel 431 miles before running out of petrol.

On my last visit to Cornwall, Boscastle had been hit by a flash flood a little more than a month earlier and the road down to the village had been closed to tourists. This time the road was open so I made my way down to the village. After parking and paying the fee, I had lunch at a café in the village and then walked down to the harbour entrance. Once again the tide was out so the few boats moored in the harbour were high and dry on the sand.
After spending a few hours enjoying the sunshine wandering around the village and harbour I headed back to Wadebridge.

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