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Wembury to Plymouth Walk.Indd ict ict fl fl Coast in Con Coast in Con Devon’s Areas of Wembury South Devon Walk Outstanding Natural Beauty This leafl et is part of a series of themed trails in Devon’s Areas to Plymouth of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB); helping you get out there, enjoy, and learn more about the landscape around you. Start/Finish: Wembury Beach car park Distance: 12 miles (19km) Trail themes include Circular walk: Yes Grade: Strenuous Coast in Confl ict, Terrain: Coast path and public footpath. Some rocky, Man and the Landscape, uneven, slippery and muddy patches. Surfaced road Trade and Settlement and Obstacles and steep gradients: 21 fl ights of steps; 2 A Colourful Landscape. steep ascents; 2 steep descents Have a look at these websites for further leafl ets in the series, Accessibility: This route is not suitable for wheelchairs and ideas for other ways of enjoying yourself out and about! or pushchairs Public transport: Bus service 48 to Wembury from SSeeee www.southdevonaonb.org.uk, Plymouth www.northdevon-aonb.org.uk, Toilets: Public toilets by Wembury Beach; Bovisand Park; and Mountbatten, Plymouth www.visitsouthdevon.co.uk and Parking: Wembury Beach car park. www.discoverdevon.com Other Facilities: Public payphone at road junction, 300m back up lane from Wembury Beach car park AfOttdiNtlBtithGArea of Outstanding Natural Beauty is the Governments t Accommodation: Please contact Modbury Tourist designation for Britain’s fi nest landscapes; there are 40 in Information Centre 01548 830159 or England and Wales. Together with Dartmoor and Exmoor [email protected] National Parks, Devon’s 5 AONBs cover 35% of the County. OS map: Explorer OL20 AONBs share a common commitment to secure sustainable living landscapes. Each AONB has been designated for special Grid ref: SX 518484 attention because of the quality of their fl ora, fauna, cultural Follow the Countryside Code: for more information and historical heritage, as well as beautiful scenery. www.countrysideaccess.gov.uk Their care has been entrusted to local authorities, organisations, community groups, individuals who live and work in them and those who value them. Please recycle this leafl et by passing it onto a friend when you have fi nished with it. Don’t let Devon go to waste. (Alternatively, for a view of Directions Brownhill Battery, continue Numbers in brackets refer to to very top of concrete steps (5,6), then retrace your steps ict ict Points of Interest. fl fl and rejoin route) (7,8). (For the fi rst half of this walk, you are following ‘Coast Path’ signs and waymarkers – look for the ‘acorn’ Coast Path logo). 1. From car park follow path around back of beach and up broad steps then bear left along coast path. Follow coast Coast in Con Coast in Con path along the low cliffs (1). 2. At Heybrook Bay bear left to Wembury to Plymouth Wembury to Plymouth Coast in Confl ict continue along coast path, signed for Bovisands. As part of the frontline of an island 3. At Bovisand Park chalet complex kingdom, Devon’s coast has for follow coast path up drive, centuries been a scene of confrontation bearing left around bay (2). and combat. Along with the fruits of the sea, the county’s two long 4. Beyond holiday chalets bear left 7. Just before path reaches road coastlines have also brought the signed ‘Coast Path’. Follow path at Staddon Heights, bear constant threat and reality of attack behind beach then up steps. At left through kissing gate to and invasion. the top, bear left along road, continue along Coast Path. signed ‘Jennycliff 1 ½m’. Well over a thousand years ago, coastal dwellers here lived 8. Where you reach Jennycliff in dread of the swift longships bearing Viking raiders. A and the laid stone reading millennium later, Devonfolk still could not sleep soundly in ‘Welcome to Plymouth’, bear their beds, as corsair pirates from North Africa scoured the left ahead. Cut across the county’s coast seeking booty and slaves. Throughout ages, the recreation area in front of seas you look upon were a treacherous and lawless place. Jennycliff Café and past stone slab with carved Coast Path These cliffs, beaches, and bays have witnessed centuries of ‘acorn’ logo. tension and clashes. Spain, Holland, and of course France have all threatened these shores, while during the Civil War, 9. Bear left across next recreation the English fought each other along this coast. area down to far corner and follow Coast Path fi ngerpost, More recently, the sea’s rim bristled with armaments, as both signed ‘Breakwater’. the fi rst line of defence and the launchpad for attack through 10. At road bear left along two world wars. pavement, then left again after Meanwhile another fi erce and age-old confl ict continues to 100m following fi ngerpost. Bear rage along the Devon coast. Day-in, day-out, the titanic forces 5. Fork right along front of left in front of the old fort of of sea and land meet in a mighty clash. The breathtaking Bovisand Court, following Mountbatten Tower, up surfaced Devon coastline we see today is the result of this relentless yellow waymarker arrow. Turn path. At top of the ramped path battle between pounding waves and enduring rock. right before the next houses up (9), with the tower to your steps, and follow path (3). right, turn left down steps to The vast power of the ocean, and the jagged rocks of the the breakwater (10,11). land have claimed other lives, in the form of the shipwrecks 6. After climbing a long fl ight of that litter the coast, each telling a vivid tale of heroism and steps (4), bear left by spiked 11. From here bear round to right tragedy, of lives, times, and treasures. railing gateway to pass in following path along waterfront front of the radar station. (12,13), passing slipways and boatyards. South South Devon 2 Devon 12. Follow pavement to the right for Wembury and Ivybridge. 22. After dropping down across In the mid 1800s, a formidable of old red beacon light, then (From here you are following fi elds to bottom of valley and ring of forts was built around drop down to left beyond it. ‘Coast to Coast – Erme Plym up other side, cross stile and Plymouth to protect the city Cross road at yellow chevron Trail’ waymarkers). follow right hand fi eld edges. and its naval installations, in ict ict fl fl crossing then follow Coast Path Half way along top fi eld, fork particular from a feared attack by 17. Where stone path veers left fi ngerpost left. Path snakes left across to road. Turn right. the French. They were called the away from the lake (15), bear around to follow waterfront Palmerston Forts after the then right and continue along shore, 23. After ½ mile turn right over once again. prime minister. As things turned following yellow waymarker stile to follow public footpath out, the threatened invasion never 13. At top of steps follow red arrow arrow. At the end of the lake signed for Ford and Langdon. came, and in time the forts were left, then left again down lane, follow waymarker arrow 24. Path drops from top of hill dubbed ‘Palmerston’s Follies’. signed for Turnchapel. Turn straight on. down through fi elds and right at bottom of hill along 2. Like many of the other 18. Turn right at the road then scrubby wood to Ford Farm. Boringdon Rd. Before MOD Palmerston Forts, Bovisand cross after 50m at the ‘Erme- Turn left along road. Coast in Con Coast in Con access gates, turn right up Fort had a new lease of life Plym Trail’ fi ngerpost. Follow narrow lane and follow road. At 25. After 120m turn right and over during World War II. During footpath straight ahead. Wembury to Plymouth Wembury to Plymouth t-junction at the bottom, turn stile to follow public footpath the confl ict, its guns swept right following red waymarker 19. Follow waymarker arrows signed ‘Church Rd ¼m’. the Sound looking for German leading left along valley (16), arrow along waterfront (14). 26. Cross at the road onto road E-boats, and an anti-aircraft then fork right up hill. At the opposite then turn immediately battery on the roof chattered next fork continue uphill, right onto footpath back down away at enemy planes. Beneath following edge of housing to beach and car park (19). the fort lie deep tunnels built around to the right. At the to store ammunition safe from stile, cross track and follow enemy bombardment. footpath straight ahead up Points of Interest The quay below Bovisand Fort through woods. 1. During World War II, Wembury was built in 1816. Warships 20. At fi ngerpost at the top, turn Point was often a deafening spot. would dock here to take on left along public footpath (17). In 1940, HMS Cambridge, the water from a purpose-built When you come to a track, most important naval gunnery reservoir nearby. cross to right over stone stile school in the country, was sited 3. Above Bovisand, the path and follow fi eld edge. At the here. The boom of its practise follows a footbridge across a road, turn left (18). guns were a part of life in the curious ‘gorge’, now overgrown area for the next 60 years. 21. At junction with Bovisand Rd with scrub. This steep cutting 14. At end of Hooe Lake turn left cross over onto public footpath After decommissioning, The was used at one time to lower along tarmac path, following signed ‘Traine road 1m’.
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