A Lynmouth Walk: Watersmeet to Combe Park

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A walk through Devon lanes, farmland and woodland

An excellent circular pub walk was a 4 1/2 mile walk from Watersmeet, up to Hilsford Bridge, through Combe Park & then up to the Beggars Roost, then back down past East Lyn farm to Myrtleberry Cleave & then back to Watersmeet. 

It takes in a bit of walking along rivers, Devon country lanes, open farmland & woods with spectacular views up on to the open moorland of Brendon Common & the Bristol Channel across to Wales.

In the woods, the Spindle berries are starting to form, though they are yet to take on their brilliant pink.  Though Spindle trees don’t tend to grow very thick, the wood is great for turning as it is very pale & fine-grained – I made all our Christmas tree decorations from it last year.  

Walking up Cheriton Road, you get to see a classic Devon hedge in cross-section, showing the stone-face bank, topped with a laid Beech hedge (though the majority of these hedges could do with re-laying)

Sitting outside the Beggars Roost, it was great to see that their Wisteria was alive with sparrows flitting back & forth between the wisteria & their roosts in the eaves of the pub roof

Walking back from the pub, I saw a pair of young red deer on the Cleaves grazing in the fields in the evening sun, then the final bit of the walk was timed perfectly with the sun setting over towards Valley of Rocks above Lynton and some great bracket fungi on the birch trees in the woods

Watersmeet Hoar Oak Combe Park
 
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Danny Jarvis
Riverside self catering accommodation on Exmoor. Sitting in a truly special setting right on the bank of the beautiful East Lyn River, the Lodge at Myrtleberry offers comfortable self catering accommodation for up to six people (additional accommodation can sometimes be made available for larger groups up to 11 people - please enquire). It sits in a large open garden on a wide bend of the river, surrounded by oak woodlands on steep hillsides; it is almost the only property in the dramatic National Trust owned Watersmeet Valley. As seen on 'Britain's Best Walks' with Julia Bradbury.

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