Exmoor National Park: Local, Characterful Guides to Britain's Special Places
This new title in Bradt’s distinctive series of Slow travel guides to regions of Britain is the only general guide to focus exclusively on Exmoor, covering all of the national park plus towns and villages just outside the boundary. Written by expert resident author Hilary Bradt, coast and moorland, hiking, wildlife and birdwatching are all covered, as are food and drink, historical background and culture both present and past, including Lorna Doone (and Doone country), Wordsworth and Shelley. Divided into ten regions and complete with 13 walks with maps, Bradt’s Exmoor National Park also covers National Trust villages and nature reserves, little-known attractions such as private gardens, and the region’s most interesting little churches. 
Exmoor is one of England’s smallest but most beautiful national parks and is also particularly rich in festivals, both cultural, traditional – and frankly bizarre, including Hunting of the Earl of Rone in the village of Combe Martin and the Minehead Hobby Horse. The area is also increasingly recognised as a foodie destination and as a place for active holidays of all types. With its long coastline there are beaches for everyone, both sand and pebble, with wild swimming in the sea, rivers and reservoirs. This is also one of the most rewarding areas for walking in the West Country, combining stunning sections of the South West Coast Path with inland walks over heather-rich moorland and up river valleys. 
England’s smallest church and largest number of wild red deer, and Britain’s most distinctive native pony are all found here. Ideal for walkers, riders, foodies and lovers of beautiful scenery and wilderness, Bradt’s Exmoor National Park is the essential companion for a successful trip regardless of age or budget. 



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Exmoor National Park: Local, Characterful Guides to Britain's Special Places
This new title in Bradt’s distinctive series of Slow travel guides to regions of Britain is the only general guide to focus exclusively on Exmoor, covering all of the national park plus towns and villages just outside the boundary. Written by expert resident author Hilary Bradt, coast and moorland, hiking, wildlife and birdwatching are all covered, as are food and drink, historical background and culture both present and past, including Lorna Doone (and Doone country), Wordsworth and Shelley. Divided into ten regions and complete with 13 walks with maps, Bradt’s Exmoor National Park also covers National Trust villages and nature reserves, little-known attractions such as private gardens, and the region’s most interesting little churches. 
Exmoor is one of England’s smallest but most beautiful national parks and is also particularly rich in festivals, both cultural, traditional – and frankly bizarre, including Hunting of the Earl of Rone in the village of Combe Martin and the Minehead Hobby Horse. The area is also increasingly recognised as a foodie destination and as a place for active holidays of all types. With its long coastline there are beaches for everyone, both sand and pebble, with wild swimming in the sea, rivers and reservoirs. This is also one of the most rewarding areas for walking in the West Country, combining stunning sections of the South West Coast Path with inland walks over heather-rich moorland and up river valleys. 
England’s smallest church and largest number of wild red deer, and Britain’s most distinctive native pony are all found here. Ideal for walkers, riders, foodies and lovers of beautiful scenery and wilderness, Bradt’s Exmoor National Park is the essential companion for a successful trip regardless of age or budget. 



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Exmoor National Park: Local, Characterful Guides to Britain's Special Places

Exmoor National Park: Local, Characterful Guides to Britain's Special Places

by Hilary Bradt
Exmoor National Park: Local, Characterful Guides to Britain's Special Places
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Exmoor National Park: Local, Characterful Guides to Britain's Special Places

by Hilary Bradt

Overview

This new title in Bradt’s distinctive series of Slow travel guides to regions of Britain is the only general guide to focus exclusively on Exmoor, covering all of the national park plus towns and villages just outside the boundary. Written by expert resident author Hilary Bradt, coast and moorland, hiking, wildlife and birdwatching are all covered, as are food and drink, historical background and culture both present and past, including Lorna Doone (and Doone country), Wordsworth and Shelley. Divided into ten regions and complete with 13 walks with maps, Bradt’s Exmoor National Park also covers National Trust villages and nature reserves, little-known attractions such as private gardens, and the region’s most interesting little churches. 
Exmoor is one of England’s smallest but most beautiful national parks and is also particularly rich in festivals, both cultural, traditional – and frankly bizarre, including Hunting of the Earl of Rone in the village of Combe Martin and the Minehead Hobby Horse. The area is also increasingly recognised as a foodie destination and as a place for active holidays of all types. With its long coastline there are beaches for everyone, both sand and pebble, with wild swimming in the sea, rivers and reservoirs. This is also one of the most rewarding areas for walking in the West Country, combining stunning sections of the South West Coast Path with inland walks over heather-rich moorland and up river valleys. 
England’s smallest church and largest number of wild red deer, and Britain’s most distinctive native pony are all found here. Ideal for walkers, riders, foodies and lovers of beautiful scenery and wilderness, Bradt’s Exmoor National Park is the essential companion for a successful trip regardless of age or budget. 



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781784771560
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 06/12/2019
Series: Slow Travel
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 5.47(w) x 7.79(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Hilary Bradt co-founded Bradt Travel Guides in 1974, but now lives in semi-retirement in Seaton, East Devon. After 40 years of writing guidebooks to Africa and South America, she has embraced her chosen home to the extent of insisting that such a large, varied and beautiful county deserved four Slow guides, not just one. Her first visit to the region was as a child on a pony-trekking holiday on Exmoor – a never to be forgotten experience. A keen walker, she has covered many miles of the South West Coast Path and inland footpaths,  and most Saturdays see her taking part in one of Devon’s Parkruns (5k, but she’s appropriately slow). She is a productive member of the South West Sculptors’ Association and lectures regularly on travel-related topics at libraries and literary festivals, both in Devon and further afield. In 2008 she was awarded an MBE for services to the tourist industry and to charity and in 2009 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Guild of Travel Writers. 

Table of Contents

GOING SLOW IN EXMOOR NATIONAL PARK 
Exmoor & the hand of man, A taste of Exmoor, Getting there & around, Active Exmoor, Inactive Exmoor, Further information 


EXMOOR NATIONAL PARK
WESTERN EXMOOR: COMBE MARTIN & THE COAST 
Combe Martin, Beyond Combe Martin 
THE INLAND ROUTE: TO LYNTON VIA BLACKMOOR GATE 
Parracombe, Challacombe & Pinkery Pond, Exmoor Zoo, Wistlandpound Reservoir, Woody Bay Station 
THE COASTAL TRIANGLE 
Trentishoe, The Hunter’s Inn, Heddon Valley & Martinhoe, Woody Bay & Lee Bay 
LYNTON, LYNMOUTH & AREA 
Barbrook & Watersmeet House, Lynton, Lynmouth, The Valley of Rocks 
CENTRAL EXMOOR 
Doone country, Simonsbath & the River Barle 
SOUTHERN EXMOOR 
Withypool, Exford, Winsford, Tarr Steps, Hawkridge, Beyond Tarr Steps, Winsford Hill & the Caratacus Stone 
PORLOCK & AREA 
Porlock 80, Greencombe Gardens 82, Porlock Weir 84, Horner Woods, Stoke Pero & Dunkery Beacon, Tivington & Wootton Courtenay
THE WEST SOMERSET COAST: PORLOCK WEIR TO COUNTY GATE 
Culbone Church 
EAST OF PORLOCK: THE NATIONAL TRUST VILLAGES 
Luccombe & Horner, Allerford, Bossington, Selworthy 
MINEHEAD & EASTERN EXMOOR 
Minehead, Dunster, Timberscombe, Wheddon Cross & Snowdrop Valley, Dulverton, Exmoor Pony Centre, Walks in the Dulverton area, Wimbleball Lake & Haddon Hill 


INDEX 



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