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Dorset & South Devon Coast Path (South-West Coast Path Part 3)
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Contents
Contents | Introduction | How difficult is the path? | Planning your walk | Using this guide | Sample route guide: Bigbury-on-Sea to Salcombe
INTRODUCTION
About the Dorset & South Devon Coast Path
History of the South-West Coast Path 9 – How difficult is the
Coast Path? 11 – How long do you need? 12 – When to go 13
PART 1: PLANNING YOUR WALK
Practical information for the walker
Route finding 17 – Accommodation 18 – Food and drink 21
Money 26 – Information for foreign visitors 26 – Other services 28
Walking companies 28
Budgeting 31
Itineraries
Which direction? 32 – Suggested itineraries 33 – The best day
and weekend walks 35 – Side trips 36 – Village and town
facilities 38
What to take
Keep your luggage light 40 – How to carry it 40 – Footwear 41
Clothes 41 – Toiletries 42 – First-aid kit 42 – General items 43
Camping gear 43 – Money 44 – Documents 44 – Maps 44
Recommended reading 45 – Sources of further information 46
Taking dogs along the path 48
Getting to and from the path
National transport 52 – Getting to Britain 53 – Local transport 55
Public transport map 59
PART 2: MINIMUM IMPACT WALKING & OUTDOOR SAFETY
Minimum impact walking
Economic impact 61 – Environmental impact 62 – Access 63
Outdoor safety
Avoidance of hazards 66 – Weather and weather forecasts 68
Blisters 68 – Hypothermia 68 – Hyperthermia 69 – Sunburn 69
PART 3: THE ENVIRONMENT & NATURE
Conserving the Dorset & South Devon Coast Path 70
Geology 72
Flora and fauna
Trees 77 – Flowers 78 – Mammals 80 – Reptiles 83 – Birds 83
Butterflies and moths 88
PART 4: ROUTE GUIDE AND MAPS
Using this guide 89
Plymouth 91
Plymouth to Wembury 100
Wembury 106
Tackling the Yealm 106
Wembury to Bigbury-on-Sea 111 – Tackling the Erme
115 – Challaborough &
Bigbury- on-Sea 119
Bigbury-on-Sea to Salcombe
120 – Tackling the Avon 120
Outer & Inner Hope 122
Salcombe 126
Salcombe to Slapton Cross
131 – East Prawle 134
Beesands 136 – Torcross 138
Slapton 140
Slapton Cross to Dartmouth
142 – Strete 143 – Stoke
Fleming 144 – Dartmouth 148
Dartmouth to Brixham 153
Kingswear 154
Brixham 160
Brixham to Torquay 163
Paignton 167 – Torquay 170
Torquay to Teignmouth 178
St Marychurch 180
Maidencombe 180 – Shaldon
184 – Teignmouth 186
Teignmouth to Exmouth 190
Dawlish 192 – Dawlish
Warren 196 – Cockwood 198
Starcross 198
Tackling the Exe 200
Exmouth 203
Exmouth to Sidmouth 207
Budleigh Salterton 210
Sidmouth 216
Sidmouth to Seaton 221
Branscombe Mouth 224
Beer 226 – Seaton 228
Seaton to Lyme Regis 231
Lyme Regis 236
Lyme Regis to Seatown 243
Charmouth 244 – Seatown 248
Chideock 248
Seatown to Abbotsbury 250
Eype Mouth 251 – West Bay
252 – Burton Bradstock 256
South Dorset Ridgeway (aka
Inland Coastal Route) West
Bexington 260
Abbotsbury 266
Abbotsbury to Fortuneswell
268 – Fortuneswell 274
Fortuneswell to Weymouth
(via Isle of Portland Circuit)
276 – Weymouth 282
Weymouth to Lulworth Cove 287 – Osmington Mills 288
Lulworth Cove & West
Lulworth 294
Lulworth Cove to Kimmeridge Bay 298
When ranges are closed 302
Kimmeridge 304
Kimmeridge Bay to Swanage
306 – Worth Matravers 308
Swanage 312
Swanage to South Haven Point 316 – New Swanage 3
APPENDICES
A: Poole 322 B: South Dorset Ridgeway Prehistoric Sites 323
C: Map key 324 D: GPS waypoints 325
INDEX 329
Dorset & South Devon Coast Path (South-West Coast Path Part 3)
Excerpts:
- Contents
- Introduction
- How difficult is the path?
- Planning your walk
- Using this guide
- Sample route guide: Bigbury-on-Sea to Salcombe
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