Walk 1 (2.6 m) | Walk 2 (5.8 m) | Walk 3 (6.4 m) | Walk 4 (4.1 m) | Walk 5 (5.4) |
Silver Woods | Blackdown Hills | Kerswell Priory. | Pirzwell & Lakes | Blackborough House |
Beare means a small wood - Kentis ?
![]() | 3 old yews in church yard , Blackdown Hills |
![]() | Wyndham Arms |
![]() | Kentisbeare Village Hall Car Park behind church |
![]() | Postcode:EX15 2BG |
Walk 1 Silver Woods & Lakes (2.6 miles)
Difficulty
This delightful 1 hour walk walk takes you through Silver Woods, a conservation area, & along Goodiford Mill Fishery passing numerous small lakes full of wild life.
It returns via quiet lanes, some flanked by orchards, and well maintained footpaths.
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![]() | Kentisbeare Car Park behind church |
Map of Walk 1
Walks near Kentisbeare | |
Broadhembury | |
![]() | An exhilarating walk from one of the most picturesque villages in Devon. |
Blackborough House | |
![]() | A steady climb takes you to the ruins of Blackborough House - grade III listed. |
Dunkeswell | |
![]() | Three popular walks including a rewarding but somewhat strenuous ramble to the ruins of an old abbey |
Uffculme | |
![]() | A delightful and gentle walk following a well defined footpath along the river Culm |
Walk 2 Blackdown Hills (5.8 miles)
Difficulty
This almost 6 mile hike takes you on to the beautiful Blackdown Hills from where you can see the Exe estuary.
On the way back the footpath takes you past Blackborough House, a derelict manor house.
These directions are not to be used without a map:
The Walk
A From the car park walk towards the church and take a footpath to the right of the building. At the T junction turn right onto Priest Hill.
After 130 where the road bends to the right take the left fork and continue along the lane until you see a track on right. Turn into the track and after a short while take footpath on right. Follow this path for 0.4 miles
Turn left onto a lane then take lane on right.
B Continue on this lane for 0.35 miles then after the farm yard turn left onto a Footpath.
Follow this Footpath and after 0.41 miles turn right onto a service road.
Continue in easterly direction.The drive turns into a track then into a path.
Take this footpath which eventually leads to Saint Hill. Where the track joins the lane continue left then soon take a footpath on right past the chapel.
C Follow this path ( a steady climb) until you reach a lane - just before the lane the path runs parallel to a private drive.
Turn right, still climbing, and turn left at the next junction, after a telephone booth.
D Continue along this lane through Blackborough (no pub) and past the cemetery on right.
Just before a gate where the lane becomes a drive, turn left onto public footpath.
Descend until you reach the beginning of a lane near some houses. During the winter this can be muddy.
E After 0.2 miles you arrive at a junction. Cross over and follow the lane past Pirzwell farm.
Ignoring a lane junction on right the road bends sharp left and soon you will see a track on right.
F Follow this track (Green Lane) .After 0.69 miles turn left onto a lane called Silver Street .Follow this lane back into Kentisbeare.
Map of Walk 2
length: | 5.8 miles |
time: | 2 hr 15 mins |
terrain: | tracks bridle/ paths |
lanes | |
main roads | 0 % |
altitude range | 87 - 242 m |
quality of track | **** |
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Walk 3 Kerswell Priory(6.4 miles or 7.1 miles)
Difficulty
This 7 mile hike takes you to the Blackdown Hills, through a beautiful coniferous forest returning via Kerswell & Kerswell Priory.
A 30 min longer version (blue) skirts the Devon & Somerset Gliding Club & descends using footpaths, tracks & lanes into Kerswell.
There is no pub in Kerswell.
There is one pub in Kentisbeare, the Wyndham Arms, a grade II listed historic coaching inn.
Walk 4 Pirzwell & Lakes (4.1 miles)
Difficulty
An easy 4 mile walk to enjoy the rolling tranquil landscape around Kentisbeare following tracks , public footpaths and quiet lanes.
Walk 5 Blackborough House (5.4 miles)
Great walk to Jaguar graveyard and Blackborough House.
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