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Taylor Square, TAVISTOCK, PL19 0DH

Tavistock Viaduct was part of the closed LSWR line from Exeter to Plymouth. This picture is taken from Taylor Square. The line was the London & South Western, later Southern Railway main line to Plymouth, closed in 1968. It has been suggested that this line should be re-opened to provide an alternative route to Plymouth and Cornwall as the old Great Western Railway route from Exeter to Plymouth is now the only access and can be subject to storm damage along the coast around Dawlish.

The viaduct was opened in 1890 on the Plymouth Devonport and South Western Junction Railway's double track line from Plymouth to Lydford. The tracks were lifted after closure in 1968 and the trackbed now forms a section of the National Cycle Network's Route 27, the Devon Coast to Coast route. (From a purely Geograph point of view the 248000 Easting gridline crosses the viaduct around its halfway point so this view is looking into Image too.)

The viaduct of the former LSWR route from Plymouth via Okehampton to Exeter and on to London (Waterloo) crosses high above the town. These old houses are in Taylor Square. The viaduct is now a permissive path.

This takes the South Western Junction Railway from Tavistock Station (now self-catering holiday accommodation) across the north of the town. It is now part of National Cycleway Route 27.

Grade II listed early 19th century houses in Taylor Square. Named in recognition of John Taylor (1779-1863), mining entrepreneur and engineer responsible for the construction of the Tavistock Canal.

View up King Street to the former railway viaduct now route 270 of the National Cycle Network

Crossing Bannawell Street. The railway was axed as part of the Beeching cuts and closed in 1968.

Now a public path. There are good views to be had from the viaduct over the town below.

This now carries NCN27 as part of the Devon Coast to Coast route

In the background, crossing over Bannawell Street, is Image