Time for something different as it is the Easter weekend. I had to be home for lunch at 1.30pm so decided to remove any driving on to Dartmoor from the equation which would only shorten any walk. I hadn’t walked the South West Coastal path for quite a while now and it doesn’t take long to get there from my house. The first part of this walk is across farmland and fields, the walking is easy and eventually you drop down a lane to the estuary at Warren Point. Then the landscape changes and the sea dominates the views, in particular The Mewstone, which stands proudly over Wembury Bay. Then once at Bovisands the walk turns back inland and along tracks and past fields before returning home. Its a walk I should do more often, and when the rape seeds shines yellow the fields are awash with bright colour, that will be in a few weeks and I might be back!
| Start – Home |
| Route – Staddiscombe – Wembury – Warren Point – Wembury Beach – Heybrook Bay – Bovisands – Staddiscombe – Home |
| Distance – 8 miles Start time – 9.50am Time taken – 3hrs 45 mins Highest Point – Hollacombe Hill 116metres |
| Weather – Cloud, no wind, sun trying to peek through |
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After about 15 minutes of road walking I’m away from it all and crossing farm fields on way way to Wembury
The two masts are Staddon Heights. I’ll be near there at the end of my walk
Looking back, I’ve walked through the trees down there and up this incline on to Hollacombe Hill
Once on Hollacombe Hill you get a hazy view across to Dartmoor and the hills north of Ivybridge
Approaching Wembury as the sun tries to come out
The Odd Wheel pub, Wembury
This lane takes me down to Warren Point
Across the fields
And like that the walk changes, the Yealm estuary and the Mewstone which is in view for the next hour
The SW Coastal Path to Wembury and the Mewstone
Gara Point and the mouth of the Yealm
The church at Wembury Beach as the coastal path carries on past towards Wembury Point
Looking back to Wembury church
The Mewstone and the old tidal swimming pool at Wembury Point
There is always a herd of ponies along here
Rounding the corner brings Plymouth Sound into view and the coast of Cornwall across the sea
The last of the Mewstone
Bovisand comes into view. Plymouth is in the distance left
Plymouth breakwater from Bovisand beach. The Rame peninsular across Plymouth Sound
Up the lane from Bovisands, this is a long upward plod of a mile or so, the gradient steepens at the end annoyingly
Having climbed the lane I pop out to more farmers fields and a view back down to Bovisand
Back in Staddiscombe now and one of the old war pillboxes (I think!!). There plenty of military heritage in this area, particularly around Staddon Heights. Now for some lunch at my mum’s.
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Great walk to able to from the front door!
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You live in a beautiful part of the world.
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I’m lucky to have such good coastline and then the moors of Datmoor, Exmoor and Bodmin Moor all within an hour. Few places have such diverse landscapes so close together as Devon and Cornwall. Possibly Scotland but that’s a bit further to drive!!
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