Walks near the holiday cottages 3
Stoke Church and Hartland Quay
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Stoke is about 25 minutes drive from Hallsannery. Follow the
A361 towards Bude and then just after the Clovelly roundabout
turn right signed Hartland on the B3248. Go through Hartland
village towards Hartland Quay, turning left at the T junction.
The hamlet of Stoke is just over a mile from Hartland. Park in
the Church car park. The Church itself is worth a visit, it has
a chair used by Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to
1974, who visited here in the Second World War.
There are a range of walks here, you can have a short walk to
Blackpool beach down through the woods to the cottage that was
made famous in the recent TV adaptation of 'Sense and
Sensibility' or for a slightly longer walk go down the road
going back towards Bideford and turn down the road to the left
which leads you down the hill, you can then cut across the
fields towards the coast path and back to Blackpool Beach this
way.
An hour and a half’s walk from Stoke Church to Speke's Mill
Mouth and Hartland Quay
From the car park walk back towards Bideford on the road and
then take the small road to the right between two houses. Follow
this road uphill and on for about 1.5km past Wargery farm to a
cross roads and turn right. (If you wish to visit Docton Mill
gardens you can carry straight on here for just over half a
kilometre to get to the Gardens and then follow the footpath
along to valley to Speke's Mill.) At the next junction after
about another half km bear left and follow this track down the
hill past a house on your right to the coast path. Follow the
coast path back over St. Catherine's Tor to Hartland Quay. In
April this section of the path is abundant with a rare plant
'Spring Squill' (Scilla verna). Hartland Quay is worth a visit,
the cliffs are 80m high and have some of the best examples of
chevron folding on the country. There is also a pub there plus a
shop and toilets. To get back to Stoke you have a steep climb
back up to the top of the cliff and then there is a footpath
which runs adjacent to the road and back to the Church. There is
also a very good tea room at Stoke Barton for a reward of a
cream tea!
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