To Uplyme along the River Lym
About 5 miles
I. Leave the Clock Tower car park walking past the Cobb Fish Bar, turn right past The Pilot Boat and immediately left up Coombe Street. Follow road for mile, go over the river at the crossroads and tum right up Mill Green to eventually walk on the river footpath.
2. Cross Woodmead Rood and over to Windsor Terrace. Further on go over the small bridge and through the gate into an enclosed field, with access to the river in the right corner.
3. Go through the gate and over the small bridge (featured In The Tale of Pig Robinson by Beatrix Potter). Take the left-hand fork, with the old mill ahead. Go up the path, with the mill wheel on the right. At the end of the narrow path go up 4 steps and turn left. Follow Mill Lane and then over Springhead Road, a red letterbox is to the left of the path. At the end you will see a black gate and a sign saying Cranbrook.
4. You will see a wishing well ahead. From the village hall car park, follow the East Devon Way signs across the cricket field, over the very small bridge, through the wooden gate to the field beyond (sometimes there are cattle here). Straight ahead up the small hill, find a wooden gate In the right corner, go through and veer left to Woodhouse Hill. A sign straight ahead marks left to Wadley Hill and right to Woodhouse Lane, Go straight over towards Holcombe and past Holcombe Granary.
5. Ignore the first public footpath left into the fields and carry on up. Go up Lane until you spot houses Viaduct View and Redgate. Walk on to Cannington Farm self-catering and campsite, then turn left into the field under the viaduct through a metal gate, with the white cottage ahead. Carry on up the grassy slope towards the white cottage, where there is a small gate next to 2 public bridleway signs.
6. On the gravel path, continue up Cuckoo Lane. On your left an algaed pond and on the right a red Victorian house. Immediately past this house find the short, steep gravel path (don’t miss itl) winding up to a stile and Into a wheat field. Continue to a stile on the left. Go over this then another stile. Then a third adjacent to the gate with the public
footpath sign. Turn left down Gore Lane flanked by ferns.
7. Turn right, through the wooden gate into Furzehlll Plantation, take the top path past a rope swing. Later the path goes downhill through the woods. A sign Tony's Woods is on the left. Turn right here up the steep hill through the metal gate and across 2 flat fields. You will be at the Woodroffe School top pitch and car park. Go down Shire Lane to where it meets Sidmouth Road and tum left down the hill.
8. With the "Welcome to LymeRegis" sign on your right walk on the grass verge. The pavement re-emerges at Somerset Road. On to a patch of grass with a bench and sign “to Town and Sea”. Note the intriguing tale of Morgan's grave on the blue plaque. Turn right down Ware Lone. left through the gate Into the fields, with the sea below. Continue all the way down to Monmouth Beach and retum via Front Beach.
Walk & map courtesy of Pug & Puffin, & Helen Edwards
