A week or more crossing Devon and Somerset from Ivybridge over Dartmoor and Exmoor to the North Devon Coast on the Two Moors Way Long Distance Footpath.

 

Official Route Mileage:  Ivybridge to Lynmouth 89 miles

Optional extra day of 15 miles starting from Plymouth or Wembury on the South Coast using the Erme-Plym trail to complete a full coast to coast adventure.

 

 

Across dramatic twisted Tors lying on moorland carpets of purple heather and yellow gorse, contrasted with timeless green rolling valleys in an unvisited mid Devon.  Have no doubt the Two Moors Way is a national trail of incredible variety, inspiration, and quite simply magnificent beauty for any walker that steps up to the challenge. A perfect weeks walk on a route that links the only two National Parks in Southern England with the West Country’s most  unspoilt rural backwaters, and blends this journey faithfully into a fascinating pilgrimage running from coast to coast.

 

Walking wild, isolated Dartmoor offers true freedom to roam where you see fit over its open access moorland in one of England’s last areas of sweeping wilderness.  Yet this walk is so much more than heather and hills. Dartmoor has more Neolithic and Prehistoric sites than any other National Park in Europe and between the rocky Tors, a string of standing stones, abandoned Tin mines, lonely crosses and ancient stone clapper bridges line your route along with one of the region’s most important and impressive Bronze Age Village remains at dramatic Grimspound.

 

On Exmoor in the land of Lorna Doone the Moorland literally tumbles into the sea, where dramatic hanging valleys and gushing gorges break up moorland climbs alive with wild ponies, red deer, buzzards, kites and curlew. Two very different days of walking separate the two moors through the hidden heart of Devon, walking a tunnel of enchanting woodlands, deep river valleys, green lanes and ancient drove roads bursting with wild flowers and wildlife. In between, you will find isolated farmsteads, medieval bridges and a string of unspoilt and rarely visited West Country Villages - real places, of thatched cob cottages, pretty square towered churches and traditional pubs with a warm rural welcome. Overnight stays where you will meet with real people leading real rural lives, an experience often impossible to find elsewhere in the cream tea fuelled tourist haunts of coastal South Devon. 

 

For the walker the sheer variety of terrain is worth every step of the journey and as for its highlights this is the one walk where we hardly ever get the same response from our walkers, One may predict it to be the thundering Teign Gorge below fortified Castle Drogo, the ancient Tarr Steps Clapper Bridge alive with kingfishers on its riverside trail to Withypool, the thrill of stalking a herd of Deer at Exe Head or the splash of an otter in the River Dart. Yet it’s just as likely to be that hour chatting about the afternoons walk with the locals in front of a roaring fire in the Black Dog Inn or one of those pleasing days in between the moors wandering through rolling valleys and meadows, leaving a simple peaceful satisfaction within, that is so hard to find in this modern age. Why not walk it and see!

 

Read on for a detailed route description for each section based on our standard 6 day walk and for a full range of itineraries over the same route, faster or slower to suit you, head for the foot of the page.

 

 

Ivybridge on the southern slopes of Dartmoor is the official start of the Two Moors Way (see the end of the route description below for information on the optional extra day to the official Two Moors Way start at Ivybridge.

 

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Your climb this morning above Ivybridge Town thrusts you immediately onto the desolate and wild southern face of Dartmoor ascending the old cattle grazers drove road passing below the first of many rocky Tors at Western Beacon.  Here you join the high level moorland route of the stunning Redlake Tramway 700ft above the town, an industrial masterpiece constructed in 1910 to reach the Redlake China Clay works far into the interior. Littered with hut circles, standing stones, twisted rock formations and ancient cairns you encounter Dartmoor mining country where the relics and remains of china clay production and hardy tin miners’ lives loom out of the bracken and heather en route. This is open access land so walkers can either stay with the navigational security of the Tramway or strike out wild and free, walking over the cairns and Tors of Butterdon and Three Barrows following your nose and the skyline if you prefer.

 

Either way the views right along this ridge are superb stretching back over the glistening Erme Valley to the South Hams coastline in South Devon and then far beyond to the jagged Roseland Peninsular in Cornwall. Break to admire the eerie, twisted and contorted rock stack formation at Iconic Hangershell Rocks a series of flat Tor slabs balanced precariously in this splendid isolation.  The Two Moors Way route here guides you through thousands of years of man’s activities, as it reveals old hut circles and enclosures, ancient  Hobajohns Cross and then the longest boundary stone row on the moor where your walk is flanked by over 550 standing stones stretching out over 2 miles including the medieval Spurrells cross.  Over a flank of brown heather you reach the azure blue waters of old flooded clay mining pits and older abandoned tin workings emerging from the heather from a long lost time when this area was Europe’s premier source of the precious metal.  You link briefly with the Abbots Way an ancient trail used by monks and hardy packhorses that connected Buckfast Abbey and Tavistock Abbey now only the preserve of wild ponies and red deer, grazing peacefully below the buzzards and ravens.

 

Heading east off the central moor  you will encounter the 19^th Century Pillow Mounds of Huntington Warren a former rabbit farm and a well guarded source of fur and food for the long gone miners,  any modern offspring now no doubt supporting the moors many foxes ! Then feeling miles from anywhere one of Dartmoor’s iconic old stone clapper bridges appears to take you over the gurgling Avon stream and past the spooky Huntington Cross Boundary Marker which has stood here in ghostly solitude for over 500 years

 

A day to remember ends by descending to the wooden footbridge at Chalk Ford before reaching habitation at last at the Villages of Scorriton and Holne along a vivid flower lined green bridleway

 

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A complete change of scenery to start with today as your drop down to the delightful swift flowing river Dart through a deep wooded valley clung to by rare sessile oak trees. A Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve you pass impressive Horseshoe Falls and wildlife here is prolific, kingfishers, dippers, pied flycatcher and wood warbler in the sky and even the River Dart Otter for the stealthy or lucky. You cross the churning waters at the ironically named Newbridge, a classic Dartmoor medieval parapet bridge which was actually constructed in 1413.  After a further stretch of more open river meadow and marsh, often a carpet of wild flowers, it’s back to the challenging stuff with sharp climbs over the twin rocky heights of Leigh Tor and Ash Tor from where you reach the High Level carriageway known as Dr Blackwalls Drive. A perfect walking route it was built by the Lord of the Manor in the 19C as a dramatic and panoramic carriage drive to impress and amaze his guests with, the views over the Dart Gorge to the middle distant moor still demonstrate his projects success.   

 

From Mel Tor a welcome descent into woodland serenity at the thin strip of riverside forest that lines the lovely West Webburn River and you breeze through the timeless waterside hamlet of Pondsworthy, its picture postcard row of perfect thatched cottages, old mill and bakehouse delight along with the “Pondsworthy Splash” the local ford over the Webburn.

The return to the moor beckons you out of this watery tranquillity though, if time allows or for those on shorter itineraries, a short detour gives you the chance to explore the much loved village of Widecombe on the Moor dominated by its impressive church of St Pancras which is known as the 'Cathedral of the Moors’ home to the grave of Sir Henry Baskerville of Sherlock Holmes Fame.

 

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The Two Moors way meanwhile climbs to the cairns and barrows of Hameldown Beacon. Look back on the way up for superb views over Widecombe to the famous Haytor Rocks and then on a clear day beyond as far as the Jurrasic Coast in Dorset. Once on the moor proper the ground flattens and the Two Moors Way snakes along a winding ridge walk over a succession of antiquities included the huge Broad Barrow site and Hamble Down Cross. This is superb open moor once again and the highlight of the run of rocky Tors is ghostly Grimspound, one of the best preserved Bronze Age enclosures in the South West. A huge 4 acre site holding the remains of over 20 semi restored hut enclosures inside huge granite walls, the old paved entrance and megaliths are still visible. This eerie and most remote of settings was the location of the prehistoric hut in which Sherlock Holmes spent the night keeping away from the black “hell hound” in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Thankfully the deadly Grimpen Mire also based on this location in the book, whose “bogs are capable of swallowing a pony” is not evident these days on the two Moors Way route !

 

The old mine workings of Birch Tor and Vitifer line a sunken path through the old water courses to a wild moorland road where stands the medieval 13C Bennett’s Cross said to have been erected by Monks as part of a safe waymarked trail between Abbeys. Close by you should take a break at the Warren House Inn, the highest and loneliest pub in Southern England at 1,425 feet, its very existence, in the most isolated and unlikely windswept position, a result of the long departed tin mining activities nearby. The claim is that the fire is never allowed to go out here and is said to have been burning continuously since 1845 - we suggest you divert to check this with the current landlord over a welcome pint.

 

Dropping off the moor you enter more gentle woodland and rough pasture and join the green lane route of the Ancient Mariners Way the old path of seamen crossing the county from Bideford on the north coast to their ships on the South Hams at Dartmouth. Narrow, winding, tree lined back lanes bring you to the impressive River Teign and the pair of splendid granite arched bridges at Rushford and Chagford both dating back to the 17C.

 

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A  peaceful tree lined river meadow trail tracks the Teign this morning as it gurgles away from the high ground,  look carefully for sculpture island just before Dogmarsh Bridge Weir but it’s not only art you may spot,  this whole section alive with the kingfishers, dippers, and if you are very lucky perhaps a playful otter.

 

Suddenly the hillsides start to rapidly thrust up around you and you find yourself dwarfed in the Castle Drogo Gorge. One of the Two Moors Way highlights this superb section runs right below the imposing granite walls of Castle Drogo (A National Trust award winning attraction accessible from the path, Drogo was the last castle built in the UK). From the “Fishermans Path” beside the churning Teign gorge you loop up to higher ground on the aptly named Hunters Path through thickly wooded slopes punctured with outcrops of white stone. You continue to climb to the impressive and well named Sharp Tor, a spiky topped outcrop commanding breathtaking views over the deep forest of the gorge to the precipitous castle defences beyond. The rather amusingly named Piddledown Common is then crossed before continuing into Drewsteignton Village, well served by the Drewe Arms, or if time is on your side you can detour via the Fingle Bridge beauty spot set in the shadow of the hilltop Prestonbury Castle to take some well earned refreshments from the Fingle Bridge Inn in a truly tranquil riverside spot.

 

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Gentler walking now into classic mid Devon farmlands passing rough old cob houses and farmsteads and  tiny Hittisleigh, birthplace of the infamous pirate Black Sam and worth a pause to view its lonely Wagon Roof Truss church.  As you approach Helmoors Down, you take an earthy sunken track where the trees meet above forming a living natural tunnel. Shortly after this is Preston’s Junction and a short diversion off the Two Moors Way takes you to the pretty village of Colebrooke with accommodation and facilities for overnights stays.

 

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Psychologically you have now left the challenges of Dartmoor behind to replace the walking with  a new undulating agricultural land in hidden mid Devon where the modern world suddenly seems a long way away. An utterly peaceful and rewarding route through rolling hills presents a run of rich pastures, isolated farmsteads, wooded glades and green lanes broken up by the secret and unspoilt villages of mid Devon.  

 

Highlights include the tall towering trees of Horwell wood, the fine 16C Devon Manorhouse at Whelmstone Barton and the run of tranquil fish Ponds at Coombe. At tiny Clannaborough, the church is dedicated to the not so distant Cornish Patron Saint of Tin Miners, St Petroc, set in a wonderful location on the path and in the grounds of the 18^th Century Clannaborough House. Some sense of the wider world returns to your senses as you meet the branch railway line and main road at Morchard Road but the offerings of the very traditional Devonshire Dumpling Inn more than make up for this intrusion. Those on short breaks arriving for the Exmoor section or departing after Dartmoor will use the bus stop and train station here.

 

Beyond this the Two Moors Way continues on its pilgrimage towards Exmoor now on more remote farmland passing the wetland ponds at Slade and traversing a run of several little rolling stream valleys to reach the high ground and the larger village of Morchard Bishop Here on a clear day you can see back to Haytor Rocks on Dartmoor in one direction and more importantly for the Two Moors Way walker onwards to Exmoor and the sea in the other.

 

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The walk now enters Morchard Wood Plantation with its tall, dark spruces, before cutting through wild meadow, wetlands and small stream valleys, more prolific now as you start to close in on Exmoor. At the macabre sounding hamlet of Black Dog where there are views to both moors ahead and behind, those who want to visit the Iron Age banks of Berry Castle make a short diversion,  the Black Dog Inn, a walkers favourite is the more usual stop however. Legend is that a tunnel to the castle leaves from the old well here and at the time of the Civil War its entrance was guarded by the ghostly BLACK DOG that gave the hamlet its name.

 

After passing through the ancient oaks and Hazel trees in Washford Wood and fording the peaceful infant river Dalch the day ends with a descent to Witheridge Village, the views now bringing a real brooding sense of entering mighty Exmoor tomorrow.

 

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It’s a serene and leisurely start this morning following the gurgling Little Dart River through the Woodland Trust’s Yeo Copse into an area of more organised plantation and  flowering marshlands that lead to the 17C Bradford Mill. Dense and remote thickets hide plenty of waterfowl, deer and there is always the hope of more otter.

 

Three open heath areas herald the entrance to Exmoor now, sandwiched in between them, some delightful green lanes, back roads and strips of woodland. After Canworthy Common you enter the Devon Wildlife trusts nature reserves at Outer and Inner Knowstone, two areas of moor land giving a return to open heath walking through heather and rough grassland, skipping round mire and gorse. Both are protected environments with a site of special scientific interest status as the largest area of Culm grassland in the world, a habitat attracting plenty of grazing wild deer and other wildlife including marsh fritillary butterflies along with plenty of nesting curlew, jack snipe, woodcock and hen harrier.

 

Knowstone itself offers yet another protected conservation village to explore. Click Here for information about facilities and overnight stops in Knowstone including the excellent Michelin star Masons Arms in Knowstone village.

 

Some short but noticeably steeper climbs appear after Owlborough Moor, one on a lovely bridleway from the narrow stone bridge crossing of the River Yeo valley climbing up to West Anstey an impressive village with its Old Vicarage, water pump and an interesting church once again of the wildly followed Saint Petroc.

 

Panoramic views now confirm you have reached the entrance to Exmoor National Park at Badlake Moor. The change is immediate once again as you cross wild heath between gorse and scrub passing several impressive memorial stones and crossing Anstey Money Common, the old Vennford Boundary Stones help you navigate along an excellent Heathland trail.

 

The wild Danes Brook Valley lying just before the village of Hawkridge is Exmoor in miniature, a riotous mix of heather, bracken, scrub and twisted trees hugging each side of the sweeping moorland river. This is now Red Deer country and you should watch out for groups moving silently between the rolling hills and wooded copses as you cross the deep valley On the other side is the village of Hawkridge and it’s well worth a visit here to Tom Lock better known as The Antler Man, who keeps up his family’s craftsman traditions with a collection of carvings of everything from corkscrews to walking sticks and even a chair,  all hewn from antlers found in the forest. 

 

Now one of the highlights of the Two Moors Way to finish the day as you descend through thick beech and ancient ash woodland to reach Exmoor’s iconic River Barle. Stepping back in time you use the ancient and these days iconic Tarr Steps, an impressively lengthy sandstone clapper bridge which fords the rushing moorland river. This is rightly Exmoor’s most famous beauty spot and you can take it in with a cream tea at the Tarr Farm Inn.

 

You now turn to follow the churning Barle on one of the UK’s finest river walks, snaking your way along its banks enjoying several miles of joyous riverside trail through carpets of wild flowers and shady forest glades alive with dippers, woodpeckers and kingfishers. Deep green moss covers the rocks and lush forest that clings to the rivers banks, broken up by sections of rich water meadow as you sweep round a series of huge double bends and gentle meanders before emerging into the village of Withypool the heartland capital of Exmoor itself.

 

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Today is the final leg of your journey crossing the high ground of mighty Exmoor and from the off you follow uninhabited and remote moorland broken up by increasingly rare patches of pine woods as you climb from Withypool. En route, Chibbets Cross, the sombre site of the old Gibbet where criminals, outlaws and deer poachers would be left chained to the posts in this most desolate of spots. You leave the now gushing and snaking moorland River Barle to cross the ancient fortified site of Cow Castle said to date back to 500BC or earlier and the stupendous views open up over the moorland heights, classic Exmoor purple heather and bracken clad slopes. This is a wild and windswept land of buzzards, old copper mines and wild Exmoor ponies. The isolation is briefly broken at the high level village of Simonsbath where dark silent glades of beech woods lead to the river crossing by a triple-arched medieval bridge. All in all it has an end of civilisation air to it.

 

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This is the last chance for a drink before you climb out through dark brooding forest plantations to Exmoor’s heights on the open moor over Dure Down and onto Exe Head. The source of this river is just a trickle from the mire here but one flowing back behind you, retracing your steps to empty all the way over to the other side of the land mass as a huge estuary in South Devon.

 

The landscape is simply breathtaking and you feel yourself on the top of the world up here, watch out for birds of prey, hare, herds of wild ponies and of course grazing deer as you join the route of the Tarka Trail which follows the habitat and wandering of Gavin Maxwell and his otters. The final and dramatic descent to the coast starts here down a deep V shaped heather valley following the tiny gushing Hoar Oak Water which quickly picks up volume from the marsh and starts to bound with intensity seaward passing ruined sheep shelters and occasional standing stones.

 

The lonely Hoar Oak Tree still serves as your guidepost off the moor today as it has since the 13C when it marked the ancient boundary of old Exmoor Forest and it now stands in solitary guard of your re-entry to Devon from the moor. In a final brief burst of upward effort you now ascend the line of Cheriton ridge an ancient highway which opens up vast panoramic views now across the sea to Wales. Drawing you past ancient hut circles and cairns that peer out of the purple heather and bracken the ridge takes a steady descent down the moorland flank to reach the first  habitation for many miles at the houses of Cheriton.  

 

The Two Moors way now climaxes at Gorge Country on the superb woodland trails around Coombe Park high above the Waters Meet waterfalls where the now bounding Hoar oak Water and East Lyn River meet at the head of the gorge. The forest here is another protected site of special scientific interest recognised as one of the most varied and largest natural areas of Woodland in the region.  Its an assault on the senses in Spring,  with an abundance of wild flowers, bluebells and primroses poking out from beneath rare sessile oaks all surrounded by the heady aroma of wild garlic and living forest. After the Iron Age Hill Fort at Myrlteberry South the trail finally releases you and you drop dramatically through a series of switchbacks as the coastline beckons. In this area known as the Cleaves, you hang high above the steep sided drop of the main river gorge 1000ft below you. Finally,  the fascinating Cliffside towns of Lynmouth and Lynton – north Devon’s “Little Switzerland” emerge to greet you as you almost tumble down the hillside off the trail. Here, the foot of the breathtaking gorge collides with the ocean where it empties from a small harbour into the Bristol Channel, surrounded to the left and right by huge imposing cliffs and coastline. It’s a fitting spectacle for the end of a superb walk,  or for those heading off along the South West Coast Path an impressive starting point for the next leg of your adventure.

 

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An additional first day(s) walking on the waymarked Erme Plym trail allows you to complete the full coast to coast route and also offers  an easy first days walk,  great for easing you in as preparation for Dartmoor which looms above you throughout today on the horizon,  The route takes in gentle walking through South Devon landscapes of hidden estuary and river valleys, unspoilt sleepy villages, and rolling farmlands.

 

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Those starting in Plymouth also get the added bonus of being able to pass through the key seafaring historical points and panoramas along the famous grassy Plymouth Hoe,  where Drake gazed out to sea playing bowls as he waited for the Spanish Armada.  Smeatons Tower leads on to the medieval cobbled Barbican area of the city a fascinating spot to explore and here you make use of the Mount Batten ferry giving superb views from the water as you cross Plymouth Sound. This section is known as the Plymouth Waterfront Walkway CLICK HERE for more info on what you can see.

 

Sheltered Wembury Bay, the other starting option sits in a stunning location with its old mill , the old wheel pit now a cafe where old millstones are used for cafe tables. The bay itself is a stunning spot a protected Marine Conservation Area and home to Devon Wildlife Trusts Marine Centre,  one of the best places on the South Hams for spotting larger marine life from the shore.

 

Either way, both trails join quickly north of Wembury and the walker enjoys pleasant wooded vales of beech and pine past old lime kilns and gothic estate lodges with enticing glimpses of the mighty Dartmoor on the horizon. A highlight is the tranquil tidal waters at Cofflete Creek hidden below a disused railway arch and now disturbed by little more than the kingfishers, waders and egrets of river estuary.  More flowering green lanes and wooded pastureland takes you through three unspoilt villages en route,  all with good facilities, At pretty Brixton, there is the Fox Hound Inn listed in the CAMRA 2010 Good Beer Guide. A few fields away at Yealmpton village you can visit the Goreus Stone in the churchyard, over 1,400 years and said to be the oldest Christian site in Devon, an early relic of one of the West Country’s first Christian Chieftains. You also pass the picturesque cob thatched cottage where Sarah Catherine Martin the housekeeper at nearby Kitley Manor wrote the famous rhyme Old Mother Hubbard after accepting she could never marry her upper class love because of her background as a servant. Look out of the bizarre thatched dog on top of the roof of what is now Old Mother Hubbard’s Restaurant.

 

The last sleepy village on the trail is that of Ermington famous for its crooked church spire after which the welcoming pub is named.  Legend has it that one of the earliest brides who came to be married in the church was very beautiful and the spire bowed to her and never recovered

 

On the walking side of things you pass through a succession of pastoral scenery and fine woods in an area of old saw mills and quarries meeting both of the South Hams river systems on the way. First,   the stunning River Yealm at Yealmpton before crossing the secretive River Erme at Sequers Bridge and by following its old watercourses and mill remains for the final 2 miles you reach the moorland staging post of Ivybridge. 

Route Direction You can walk the Two Moors Way in either direction and we can provide luggage transfers to suit, however when there are prevailing winds these are normally form the South West so it’s best to have these behind you. In addition, the descent from Exmoor to the coast makes a superb last day walk so for these reasons we recommend walking Ivybridge (or Plymouth) north to Lynmouth.

 

Arriving and Departing Ivybridge is accessible by rail and has on street parking options. For those taking the extra day from Plymouth this has the best transport facilities in the area with fast trains from London and Bristol as well as its own airport and continental ferry. From the end of the trail at Lynmouth, travel back to the start by public transport is possible (bus and train) though you need to allow 4 -5 hours. We can arrange or advise on private transfers back by road which take around half the time. The better option, if you can allow the time, is to continue from Lynmouth walking the coastpath to Barnstaple for a few superb days of coast walking and from there you can then pick up the train again. Those walking just the Dartmoor or Exmoor sections will use Morchard Road train station which is at the end / start of both these short break options. 

 

Walking the Moorland SectionsThe majority of the Two Moors Way is easy to moderate walking grade much less severe in ascents and descents that the rollercoaster Coast Path and for that reason higher mileages on this route are the norm. The challenging sections are the open moorland parts. Thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles Dartmoor and to a lesser extent, Exmoor, retain a somewhat misleading image as eerie, dangerous and infamous places. Reality for the walker is that even on these sections in general the Two Moors Way route is not a difficult one but the open moorland is high level walking and you will see little or no habitation all day on the more remote sections – Those walking the route over the moors therefore must be able to navigate easily and confidently with a map and should be able to turn to a compass if the mists do descend.  You should also have enough walking experience to be able to assess conditions and make good judgements in bad weather about the Moorland Sections.

 

Accommodation Options We use a large range of accommodation on the Two Moors Way, plenty of village Inns lend themselves to the routes where you can stay and eat in the same place. There are also often small guest houses and farm B&B’s as an option. For those who want to use very smart hotels and Country Houses for some or all the route there are some superb options though they come at a price. Using these may involve more than one night in a single location with transfers to and from the trail but we can take care of all this for you. In essence if you want to walk the route in style let us know and we can advise.

 

As with many walking routes, accommodation does get very oversubscribed particularly in high season and around bank holidays and in certain locations there are only one or two options which once full, mean a degree of flexibility needs to be used when booking the route. Book as early as you can and be as flexible as you can, at Encounter Walking you will always know and have viewed where you will be staying so there are no surprises, but the more information and notice you can give us the better the options we can provide.

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