Leave the car park past The Hart Inn and turn right down North Street. Turn left down a narrow lane, West Ball Hill, signposted ‘Hartland Point’. Cross Pattard Bridge then bear right. Just past a lane to the right, take the footpath right up steps and through a gate/stile. Walk to the top right corner of the field and over the bank to rejoin the lane.

Turn right and right again at Youltree Cross. After a few steps turn left at Moor Cross, signposted ‘Exmansworthy’. The lane bears right; take the next lane left (‘No Through Road’). Pass Exmansworthy Farm; turn right through the car park on to a grassy path, and cross a stile to a green lane. This ends at a stile into open fields. Follow the sign left, then go straight ahead to the coast path.

Go left over a stile, soon crossing another, then a footbridge. A run of fields with stiles/gates follows; pass a junction (Exmansworthy left). Continue past Eldern Point and Shipload Bay.

Pass a sign to East Titchberry. Follow the coast path on, passing the radar station at Barley Bay.

Follow the coast path through the car park (helicopter flights to Lundy) to pass the gates to the lighthouse (closed). Take the steep, narrow, concrete path left, then left again onto Blagdon Cliff, then Upright Cliff. Descend steeply into a combe then cross the stream via a footbridge/gate. Steep steps lead up the other side to a path junction. Follow the coast path right, soon descending into the Smoothlands Valley.

Climb steeply on to Blegberry Cliff. Descend carefully into the next combe and cross the stream via a gate, then up the other side and over a stile. Keep uphill through a gate, then descend to the combe at Blackpool Mill.

Pass behind the cottage, and cross the stream. (For Hartland Quay Hotel stay on the coast path, then follow the road back to Stoke and Hartland.) To complete the walk turn left, signed ‘Stoke’, through woodland. Follow the left edge of the field, climbing to a gate. The footpath ahead leads over a stile into St Nectan’s churchyard. Leave via the lychgate.

Follow the road ahead. Before Hartland Mill turn left on a footpath. At the track turn right; keep ahead, then turn right as signed to cross the river and ascend through woodland. Follow a fenced path to a road. Turn right, then left into Hartland.