South Devon Day Retreat
Day Retreat
Saturday 25th January
Venue: Leusdon Memorial Hall
South Devon Chan Group will be holding a day retreat on Saturday 25th January 2025 led by WCF retreat leader Alysun Jones at Leusdon Memorial Hall, Poundsgate, Newton Abbot TQ13 7PE.
Day retreats are ideal for beginners and also our regular attendees. Alysun will give a thought-provoking talk during the day on the theme of the Satipatthana Sutta in our everyday lives.We start promptly at 10:00 am (arrive at around 9:45) and finish at 5pm.
Please bring vegetarian lunch to share; payment is by donation.
If you would like to come, please email southdevonchan@westernchanfellowship.org to let us know; it helps plan the numbers and kit.
We do have plentiful mats, cushions, benches and chairs; if you have your own preferred cushion or bench, do bring it along. If not, that's not a problem. We also have several warm blankets available but please feel free to bring your own.
Flyer for the day - pdf download
Leusdon Memorial Hall
Venue details
A stunning, remote location, Leusdon Memorial Hall near Poundsgate in Dartmoor.
Leusdon Memorial Hall
Poundsgate
Newton Abbot
Q13 7PE
Directions to Leusdon Memorial Hall
Type OS grid “SX7068773045” into www.streetmap.co.uk and it’s the little building arrowed
Approaching from East or West
From East – Exeter on A38
Exit Peartree from A38 to Ashburton and Dartmoor/Two Bridges/Princetown - B3352, which actually goes into Ashburton!
N.B Not the first exit to Ashburton from this direction
From West – Plymouth on A38
Exit Peartree from A38 to Ashburton and Dartmoor/Two Bridges/Princetown – B3352, which actually goes into Ashburton!
Then from both directions
At the Shell garage, follow B3357 towards Princetown for about 4 miles which comprises :-
- crossing the River Dart twice at Holne Bridge (a bit narrow) and, after up, over and down a ridge, New Bridge (very narrow and a big car park on left just after it)
- Continue on round sharp left hand uphill bend, up the steep hill and through narrow bit – Poundsgate; Tavistock Inn on your left
- Then down a small dip and up the other side steeply – more sharp uphill turns, this time first right, then left
- After the 2 bends, 150m up the hill, as you crest the brow, take sharp right turn onto open common signposted to Leusdon and Ponsworthy (If you get to the small old Methodist chapel on your left you have gone just too far; turn round and go back to the junction signposted to Leusdon and Ponsworthy)
Then, after about 300m across the common, Leusdon Memorial Hall is the first (and only) building set above the road on the left on the common.
Parking
Parking is on the hardcore roadside verge opposite the Hall.
From the North. i.e. Okehampton, Tavistock, Princetown
Proceed towards Ashburton to Two Bridges and then just beyond Two Bridges up the hill, at the fork go straight on on the B3357 to Dartmeet and Ashburton.
Continue for 4.5 miles to Dartmeet and its narrow bridge. Then straight on up the long steep hill on to the moorland plateau, through a short 300m stretch of walled road and back onto the moorland plateau.
A further 300m brings you to a carpark on the right.
Pass it and enter another stretch of walled road which drops down and then bears right into a wiggly narrow bit – ½ a mile in total.
As the road enters along the edge of another small moorland common and opposite the very small Leusdon Methodist Chapel on your right, take the narrow left fork.
This brings you onto Leusdon Common proper where in 200m you join another road from the right and a further 150m on, Leusdon Memorial Hall is the first (and only) building set above the road on the left on the common.
From Dartmeet, this is 2.7 miles in total.
Parking
Parking is on the hardcore roadside verge opposite the Hall.
