JOGLE Day 86 Appledore to Clovelly

Event Details

  • Start Date Thursday, 4th of July 2024
  • End Date Thursday, 4th of July 2024
  • Start/End Time 09:00 - 17:00
  • Near Bideford, Devon
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  • Approx Distance 16 Miles
  • TerrainVery up and down cliff paths, graded easy to Westward Ho! and strenuous to Clovelly

From Appledore we follow minor roads round to Appledore Bridge, then on paths between dunes and river to the narrow entrance of the Taw estuary and back on the open sea side of Northam Burrows to Westward Ho! The only place name in Britain to end with an exclamation mark.

After Westward Ho! the cliff path gets more bumpy with narrow deep valleys ideal for smuggling, particularly Bucks Mills and Clovelly

Before reaching Clovelly there is the 19th Century Hobby Drive, built by French POW in the Napoleanic Wars, as a project to occupy them.

Clovelly is very special with it's steep cobbled streets like a Hovis bread advert leading to a small harbour. Charles Kingsley wrote the Water Babies and Westward Ho! there.

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