Grey Wethers Stone Circles from Postbridge

We drove to Postbridge and parked in the National Trust Information Centre car park which cost only £1 in an “honesty box” which was surprisingly cheap and followed a path along the East Dart River. The path was fairly busy until the river veered from a northerly direction to the west where everyone else continued on a path along the river heading for Sandy Hole Pass. Most seemed to be clutching some sort of walking guide so it was probably a popular route.
Our route continued along the valley northwards and after rising up the rough grassy valley head, we followed a wide path of shorter grass for a kilometre or so soon arriving at the twin stone circles called Grey Wethers.
It was cooler today, a welcome relief after the recent very warm weather and we both sat with our backs against a couple of the metre or so high stones to have convenient wind breaks as we ate our lunch.
We then continued onwards the junction of several drystone-walls at Sittaford Tor where we climbed over a stile to begin crossing a large open rough grassy area, heading south-westerly to arrive back at another section of the East Dart River where it poured over some rocky steps at Sandy Hole Pass.
From there we followed a path towards the south-east and we could hear the gun fire sounds on the nearby Merrivale Range. We had been planning to go straight back to the car park at Postbridge but near Archerton House the route became a bit vague and we ended up at a field gate leading to a small enclosed area and then a second gate leading onto the road. It was here I spotted a public footpath sign the other side of a bank forming the field boundary.
So, we returned a short way back to the first field gate and followed the footpath sign by a stile leading to a narrow strip of land the other side of the bank and soon the footpath sign by the road.

We followed the road for a short distance and then crossed a couple of fields with a couple of ponies following us closely in the first until we had passed through a gate into the second field. This brought us to bridleway which was close to the NT car park and then back to our starting point.