Bampton
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.
Continue downhill along the right field edge to pass through a gate before Coldharbour Farm. Bear half left towards a gate; follow the signed path through fields, eventually through a big gate and along the left field edge. A gate leads onto the lane.
The EVW goes left, but turn right up the lane to reach Blights Farm. Turn left up the drive towards Surridge Farm. Just past a bungalow turn left through a gate in the fence, then half right up the field to pass through another gate (barns right). Keep ahead through another gate, and follow the right field edge through a gate onto a green lane (muddy in winter). There are views of Morebath ahead.
Keep ahead downhill and over the dismantled railway towards Ashtown Farm, then right down the drive. Turn right and follow the deep lane uphill past The Old Vicarage to the centre of Morebath village. Keep ahead to meet the B3190.
Turn right down the road, taking care. At Bonny Cross keep right (signed ‘Bampton’) to pass Lodfin Cross and the old station. When the road bends sharply right take the unsigned stony track ahead, slightly uphill
At the hilltop a footpath sign leads right through a kissing gate. Keep along the right edge of the field, through a gate and over a stile, then straight on through a gate, over another stile. Go through a gate at the top of the next field, and turn immediately left through a gate. Cross the field diagonally right towards the left of two gates. Pass through the next field to a stile at the top, then down a narrow fenced path towards Bampton. Cross over the next stile and field to gain the road via a gate.
Cross over, turn left, then bear right down the old road into the town. Turn right towards the church and your car.
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