Bampton

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Leave the car park by the toilets, cross the road and turn left up the steep, narrow lane signposted ‘Dulverton’. After a few minutes follow Exe Valley Way (EVW) signs right up a drive, left through a gate and up the field keeping right. Cross over the stile and go left down the track to cross a double stile in the top corner of the field. Turn immediately right over another then turn left through a tree-studded bank and right, uphill (with bank right).

Follow EVW signs over the next stile, straight across the field to a gate (top left) and cross the next field to an open gateway. Turn left, then immediately right, keeping the hedge left, to reach a metal gate just over the brow of the hill, with views towards Exmoor.

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  Terrain  - Fields, tracks and lanes, many stiles
  Landscape  - Rolling farmland and wooded combes
  Dog friendliness  - Keep on lead in fields
  Parking  - Station Road car park opposite church
  Toilets en route  - By car park
About the walk
Bampton is one of those places that isn’t really on the way to anywhere. As you drive north towards Exmoor from Tiverton you might sweep past the turning to Bampton, making for Dulverton up the Barle Valley. But it would be a mistake not to go and have a look at this quiet, ancient town, situated...
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Devon sums up all that is best about the British landscape, with its magnificent coastlines, two historic cities, the world-famous Dartmoor National Park and south Devon’s glorious English Riviera. A fashionable and much-loved holiday destination, hiking and cycling in the National Parks is extremely popular among visitors, with a great choice of off-road routes.
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Bampton

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Additional information
  Terrain - Fields, tracks and lanes, many stiles
  Landscape - Rolling farmland and wooded combes
  Dog friendliness - Keep on lead in fields
  Parking - Station Road car park opposite church
  Toilets en route - By car park
About the walk
Bampton is one of those places that isn’t really on the way to anywhere. As you drive north towards Exmoor from Tiverton you might sweep past the turning to Bampton, making for Dulverton up the Barle Valley. But it would be a mistake not to go and have a look at this quiet, ancient town, situated...
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Devon
Devon sums up all that is best about the British landscape, with its magnificent coastlines, two historic cities, the world-famous Dartmoor National Park and south Devon’s glorious English Riviera. A fashionable and much-loved holiday destination, hiking and cycling in the National Parks is extremely popular among visitors, with a great choice of off-road routes.