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Stoke Woods where Jane Austen once roamed
 

Walk 1

Walk 1 (1.4 miles allow 1 hour) Time:50 mins

stoke woods
Stoke Woods
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Point of InterestStoke Woods
  
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Some very old and tall trees are found in these woods which during the Middle Ages provided valuable building timber.Recently most confiners have been replaced with native trees. As a result wood anemonies can be seen during spring.
This is a short but very pleasant walk to a view point which inspired Jane Austen to write Sense & Sensibility. In the distance you may be looking at 'Barton Park' ,'...four miles northward of Exeter' .
The walk includes some steep descents and some stretches can be quite muddy!
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Point of Interest

Stoke Woods

Walk 2

Walk 2 To Bampford Speke (7.2 miles) Time:3h

barton cottage?
Barton Cottage?
 
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This popular walk through some of the most beautiful countryside Devon has to offer starts at Stokewoods (see Car Park).
It takes you into Brampford Speke via what could have been Jan Austen's Barton Cottage and continues along an old railway line to Stoke Canon & returns via Huxham Church.


It follows part of :

East Valley Way

Two Counties Way
Brampford Speke:Lazy Toad

Stoke Canon :Stoke Canon Inn

Caution: A396 needs to be crossed.
   
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