philstone – Guess you’ll could come back to Dean Prior through Kings wood? As far as I can see the most fun way down through Kings wood is to enter the gate at the top and take the remains of the single track to the right of the fire road. Where that pops back out onto the fireroad head straight on down through a path that has lots of closing in trees, which eventually leads onto a nice steep and rough bit of fire road. Or you could just take the gradually descending main fire road down through the woods.
Jam bo, Slugwash, took that very same route home tonight, run it with the dog some nights. Cycle path from Totnes to Steiner school then Colston lane back home.