Abbotsham & Westward Ho!: Trade & Settlement
1. At entrance to car park follow the public footpath up through the holiday park. At top of holiday park take gate straight ahead and follow footpath left. Ignore all right and left turns.
2. At the top, cross at path junction to continue along path between housing. Turn right at the road. Ignore right turn into Highcliffe Park, and follow lane straight on. Lane drops into valley and climbs again.
3. At T-junction at top of rise, turn left signed ‘Abbotsham ¾’, then take the green lane 40m on the right.
4. Bear left at the road, and continue into Abbotsham.
5. At T-junction in the village turn right opposite Vicarage Close. (Alternatively, to visit Thatched Inn, turn left, pub 100m on left).
6. Turn right at next junction up B3236, signed for Clovelly and Bude. Turn right again after 100m up lane signed for Greencliff.
7. After 600m turn right, signed for Greencliff.
8. At a sharp left hand bend after a further 700m, go straight on down Greencliff Farm drive, signed ‘to Public Footpath’. After 100m, turn right through gate onto public footpath. Follow footpath down through plantation of young trees.
9. At the fingerpost, turn right over footbridge onto Coast Path, signed ‘Westward Ho! 2 ½m’. (Just after footbridge, there is optional detour to left down to old lime kiln. Retrace your steps back to coast path, and turn left).
Follow coast path along the
cliffs back to the car park.
2. At the top, cross at path junction to continue along path between housing. Turn right at the road. Ignore right turn into Highcliffe Park, and follow lane straight on. Lane drops into valley and climbs again.
3. At T-junction at top of rise, turn left signed ‘Abbotsham ¾’, then take the green lane 40m on the right.
4. Bear left at the road, and continue into Abbotsham.
5. At T-junction in the village turn right opposite Vicarage Close. (Alternatively, to visit Thatched Inn, turn left, pub 100m on left).
6. Turn right at next junction up B3236, signed for Clovelly and Bude. Turn right again after 100m up lane signed for Greencliff.
7. After 600m turn right, signed for Greencliff.
8. At a sharp left hand bend after a further 700m, go straight on down Greencliff Farm drive, signed ‘to Public Footpath’. After 100m, turn right through gate onto public footpath. Follow footpath down through plantation of young trees.
9. At the fingerpost, turn right over footbridge onto Coast Path, signed ‘Westward Ho! 2 ½m’. (Just after footbridge, there is optional detour to left down to old lime kiln. Retrace your steps back to coast path, and turn left).
Follow coast path along the
cliffs back to the car park.
- Start/Finish: Kipling Tors car park, Westward Ho!
- Distance: 5.5 miles (9km)
- Circular walk: Yes
- Grade: Easy to moderate
- Terrain: Quiet country lanes, public footpath, green lane, and coast path. Fairly even going underfoot, with a few wet or muddy patches in damp weather.
- Obstacles and steep gradients: None
- Accessibility: A shorter Access for All route follows part of this walk along the coast path from Westward Ho!
Directions
In the Early Stone Age Devon was sparsely
populated by nomadic hunter-gatherers.
Much has changed since then. The land has
been permanently lived in through the later
Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age; seen
Roman invasion, Anglo-Saxon settlement,
Viking raiders and Norman Conquest. These
have all left their mark on the landscape,
from Prehistoric barrows and Iron Age hillforts
to Norman castles but the land has remained
settled and farmed to the present day.
North Devon AONB Unit,
Bideford Station,
Railway Terrace,
East-the-Water,
Bideford,
Devon EX39 4BB email: aonb@devon.gov.uk
