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Off the Beaten Track: Devon & Cornwall E

Off the Beaten Track: Devon & Cornwall E

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HARTLAND POINT MORTEHOE ATLANTIC OCEAN •# Barry Drink in the drama from this If you’ve always had a soft spot for NORTHAM BURROWS out-of-the-way headland that most One Man & His Dog, head for the Spot butterflies and birdlife in this ST NECTAN’S GLEN Bristol visitors never take time to Exmoor village of Mortehoe, where Channel wildlife reserve of sand dunes and Take a bracing dip in this secret pool explore. you can learn to round up sheep salt-marshes hidden behind on the north Cornish coast, shaded by under the guidance of a working Westward Ho! beach. Bridgwater trees and said to be frequented by Ilfracombe Bay Lundy shepherd. •# fairies. Island •#Minehead •# Watchet #æ•#MORTEHOE ÷# Bridgwater Exmoor •# NORTHAM National Park BOSSINEY HAVEN BURROWS •# #æ Barnstaple Find some coastal solitude on this HARTLAND æ# •# Taunton remote north-coast beach, sheltered POINT •# under sheer granite cliffs. #æGRAND WESTERN CANAL •# Tiverton DOZMARY POOL Chard •# •# This windswept lake on Moor •# Cullompton is awash with legends: it’s said by Widemouth Honiton some to be where Bay •# •# received from the Lady of the Lake. •# •# Exeter •# BOSSINEY #æ ST NECTAN'S Seaton •# Lyme #æ Regis HAVEN GLEN Range •# GOLITHA FALLS Launceston •# Danger Sidmouth Area Dartmoor National •# Trek to a gorgeous wooded waterfall DOZMARY Park near St Neot on the southern edge of WISTMAN'S ÷# •# Exmouth POOL WOOD ÷# Bovey : perfect picnic #æ Tavistock •# Tracey •# GRAND WESTERN CANAL territory. GOLITHA FALLS Ashburton •# •# Newton #æ Abbot Bodmin •# •# Cycle along the towpaths or catch a •# Torquay •# horse-drawn barge along this •# CLAY TRAILS Paignton •# Tor 11.5-mile canal that winds through •# Plymouth Bay CLAY TRAILS Brixham classic Devon countryside. Cycle through an otherworldly •# •# •# #æ •# landscape of turquoise mica pools •# LANTIC & •# Plympton Dittisham •# Ù# Devonport Dartmouth•# and china clay remains. LANSALLOS

•# Start ZENNOR •# LANTIC & LANSALLOS Bay WISTMAN’S WOOD HILL •#St Ives ä# •# Leave the crowds far behind on these Wander amongst the moss-covered St Just- #æ START Falmouth hard-to-reach beaches on the south trunks of this mysterious oak in-Penwith •# POINT •# English •# Cornish coast, or just explore the woodland, the last remainder of the Channel •# HELFORD spectacular stretch of coast great forest that once covered Land's •# #æ End RIVER path. Mousehole The Dartmoor. Lizard

ZENNOR HILL START POINT Trek to the summit of this Follow in the wake of the smugglers Admire the wraparound view from rock-strewn hill for an amazing and rivermen of old as you pilot a this dramatic 19th-century lighthouse 360-degree perspective of the wild kayak down this beautiful, peaceful on the south Devon coast. Penwith Moors. waterway.