Walk From Hunters Lodge

After parking in the National Trust Car Park, we walked towards the Hunters Lodge, which is a lovely old inn. Karen spotted a small rabbit munching on some grass nearby and after taking a few photos of the rabbit, we continued on past the pub and followed a path through woods and then along the River Heddon for a short way until we arrived where the river flowed to join the sea at Heedon's Mouth Beach.

There was an old lime kiln there, in fact a small group of lime kilns joined together. These would have bee used to burn limestone using coal, both brought across the Severn estuary from South Wales, to form Quick Lime which would be then used to fertilise farmland.

We retraced our route, but this time on the other side of the river, and then along a path which joined the Tarka Trail long distance path which rose along the valley side and then along a lovely path following high above the sea as it followed the coastline.

It was a blustery day with short and light rain showers and we paused in a sheltered spot as a rainy squall blew past.

We continued along the coast path as far as the small hill of Trentishoe Down where our route followed a path across heathland to reach a path called Ladies Mile which wended through woods to bring us back to our starting point at Hunter Lodge.

Afterwards we had a meal in the Rising Sun pub by the harbour in Lynmouth as it was Karen's birthday today.