Overview
Discover challenging and dramatic walking trails shaped by the footsteps of traders, smugglers, saints and pirates. Cornish walking trails will reveal ancient tin mines, clifftop castles, timeless fishing villages and wild moors as you travel through a landscape of huge cliffs and hidden coves that goes back to the depths of time itself. In between the coastal drama, iconic harbours such as St Ives and Padstow give walkers access to some of the UK‘s best restaurants and coastal hotels. A county encircled by the wild Atlantic ocean, there is over 330 miles of spectacular world class coast path here taking you around the farthest corners of England - put simply it feels like walking on the edge of the world.
Stretching from coast to coast across the southwest of England, Devon is a richly diverse county with rugged shores and cliffs in the north, and classic Victorian seaside resorts in the south. In between you'll find tranquil green pastures, wooded gorges and the two dramatic wild moors in the National Parks of Dartmoor and Exmoor. Choose Devon for its walking variety, and you'll find that the popular image of cream teas and thatched cottages is true - but that Devon is so much more once you explore it on two feet. Coast to coast routes like the Two Moors Way will offer a journey through it all from the wild northern shores that inspired the Romantic poets to the maritime ports of the south coast.
Free your soul and clear your mind! Walking on the wild moors of these National Parks is a wonderful antidote to modern living. England's last true wilderness, Dartmoor offers 365 square miles of virtually uninhabited freedom with high moors and twisted dramatic granite tors a land of myths, ghosts and legends. Exmoor, its smaller and more gentle neighour, is 250 Square miles of near perfect and unique beauty, with high uplands swathed in heather and steep, wooded gorges and rushing streams. See Dartmoor ponies and Exmoor stags in these wildlife rich areas, home to 30 species of mammals and over 240 types of bird. The moors offer a unique opportunity for more challenging walking where the only human sound you will hear is the rhythm of your own breath.
Avoid the crowds and discover “Secret Somerset” missed by so many rushing headlong for the far South West. The 'land of the summer people' was named in a time when this area could only be visited in the summer months as the sea receded. Today its a rich, fertile and 'for real' landscape crowned by the fine walking ridges of the Mendip and Quantock Hills both protected areas of outstanding natural beauty. Rising up over King Arthur‘s Vale of Avalon along with the magical Tor at Glastonbury, walkers will find hidden gorges, wooded combes and the best inland panoramas of the South West. Also boasting its own Jurassic Coast Path, providing a gateway into the wilds of Exmoor National Park, Somerset offers walking routes without the crowds for those who want to find..... what the rest miss.
Dorset has a comfortable old world “English” feel to it and its walking routes traverse a rather more green and agricultural land of thatched cottages, cream teas.... and fossils ! Walkers here will find the more gentle rolling farmland, pretty villages and chalk ridges beloved by Thomas Hardy that sweep down to end abruptly at the World Heritage Jurassic Coast. Here, alongside the sea, those after more challenging routes can take a walking holiday through time itself amongst the dramatic chalk stacks, cliffs and arches of the Dorsetshire fossil coast. An area that can be very busy in high season but often suits walkers looking for more gentle and less exposed walking than the far west of the region.
Wales offers some of the best walking and outdoor activities to be had anywhere in the world. The 870-mile Welsh Coast Path was only fully opened in 2012 and is the world's first walk along the entire coast of a nation. The terrain is on an equally grand scale with towering cliffs, vast stretches of unspoilt golden sands, imposing castles, offshore islands and to the north there is the backdrop of Snowdonia National Park with its stunning mountains. Wales in general offers walkers great value for money compared to more popular areas like Cornwall with walking options to suit everyone, from those who want the cosmopolitan restaurants and facilities of towns like Tenby and St Davids, through to isolated and remote forests and coastal hills that sit on the very cusp of the Snowdonian Peaks. Bursting with confidence and pride in its “Welshness”, its Celtic history, language and culture there has never been a better time for walkers to enter Wales.
The South West Coast Path is the UK's longest National Trail and one of the top ten walking routes in the world. It snakes, dips and rises continuously on its way through a staggering 1014km (630 miles) of pristine coastline, 450 miles of which is through nationally protected areas. It's a challenge too; walking the entire South West Coast Path is the equivalent to scaling Mount Everest four times! From towering cliffs to hidden coves, ghostly tin mines to lush subtropical wooded creeks. One minute a dramatic rock theatre hewn out of the cliffs, the next a prehistoric fossilized forest or a 20thC Art Deco Island Hotel. What sets The South West Coast Path apart from other trails is that around almost every corner is yet another surprise as you retrace the footsteps and histories of the tin miners, fisherman, smugglers, wreckers and the customs men who chased them.
12th September 2023- We are sorry but we are now fully booked until October on all our routes - please contact us for Autumn and 2024 dates
250 Square miles of near perfect and unique beauty, Exmoor packs a great deal into the UK’s most compact National Park and Lynmouth right in the centre of it all provides the perfect base for exploring the coastline and moorland from a stunning location with lots of facilities and accommodation options.
An offical Walkers are Welcome Town, Lynmouth offers access straight from its pretty harbour to walks onto windswept high moorland summits which roll downward into densely wooded valleys and roaring rivers and gorges. On the coast you have some of the best sections of the South West Coast Path including The Valley of the Rocks, an ascent of Great Hangman (the highest point on the whole 630 mile trail) and the unique coastal woodland sections to the timeless harbour at Porlock Weir When not walking the harbour at Lynmouth is linked by the delightful little cliff railway to its sister town of Lynton which sits high above perched on the hillside looking over the coast. Between the two places you get an extensive mix of restaurants, accommodation and exploring options
Click here to read about Lynmouth - or "little Switzerland" as the romantic poets christened it in respect of its deep forested gorges and mountainous rocky coastline
1 - The Two Moors Way from Withypool or Simonsbath (Either 17.5 miles, 11 miles or 9 mile options)
The final day on the Two Moors Way walking route and its best one, descending from one of the highest points on Exmoor at Exe Head through every type of terrain from open moorland to ancient woodlands as you make a heady descent all the way back to sea level arriving via the mighty gorges. Click here to read more
2 - South West Coast Path Day 3 from Combe Martin or Heddons Gate (Either 13.5 mile or 6.5 mile options)
Taking you over Great Hangman highest point on the South West Coast Path and through the secluded valley at Heddons Mouth. Returning to Lynmouth via the famous Valley of the Rocks. Click here to read more
3 - South West Coast Path Day 2 from Porlock Weir or County Gate (Either 12 mile or 6.5 mile options)
Starting from the little harbour at Porlock Weir a classic and remote section of the South West Coast Path with challenging climbs and descents that inlcudes a visit to the smallest Church in England hidden away in coastal woodland at Culbone - Click here to read more
4 - Coleridge Way Oare Church and the Secret Brendon Valley (Either 14 miles, 9 miles or 7.5 mile options)
In the footsteps of Coleridge and the Romantic Poets this is a walk through the land of Lorna Doone starting from her infamous church at Oare and walking down the secret Brendon Valley. Follow an inland stream all the way to the ocean as it becomes a charging river gorge on its descent from the moors through isolated villages to meet the sea back at Lynmouth.
Those who want a very full day can walk the full Coleridge Way route from the coast at Porlock Weir via Oare and Brendon back to Lynmouth - Click here to read more
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