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Choice 1 – Coffin House Route (1.5 miles) TURN left over the wooden bridge, passing Waterleat Bridge and Ashburton Park. Along this road is an unusually tall and narrow building – Belford Mill (coffin shaped and locally called The Coffin House), with a typical weatherboarded top associated with carding and combing in the old woollen industry. (Another can be seen just before the Victoria Inn in North Street.)
Choice 2 – Pennsland route (2.7 miles) CROSS the bridge, turn right, climbing the road until the outermost buildings of Rushlade Farm are met. To the left another signpost indicates Pennsland Lane. Descend to Pennsland Bridge – a very pretty wooded and riverside area, especially in spring. On the lower side of the bridge is the take-off point for the original reservoir serving Ashburton – last used in the 1976 drought! The lane exits onto the road leading to Lower and Higher Bowdley Farms. Turn left and downhill back to the road leading to Ashburton as in Choice I above.
Choice 3 – Owlacombe route (2.8 miles) AT the end of the walk through the woods another finger post points to a righthand path marked ‘Owlacombe’. The path climbs up through Lower and Higher Whiddon Farms, giving some interesting views through gateways, eventually meeting the road to Owlacombe Cross. Turn right onto this road and right again to return to Ashburton via Tower Hill. At the bottom of Tower Hill go straight across Longstone Crossroads into Roborough Gardens, down Roborough Lane, turning right into East Street and back to the car park. Walk 2 and its alternatives can be shortened by driving to Cuddyford where there is very limited roadside parking.
Walk 3 – Bulliver’s Way WALK up West Street to where the Old Totnes Road forms a downward left fork. Follow it and just before the little bridge is an ancient granite cross and a tiny spring – St Gudula’s Well or Gullwell, claimed as a cure for sore eyes. Return by way of Snakey Lane and onto Western Road or retrace your steps and turn right (Stonepark) and right again and through the auction rooms parking area on to Bulliver’s Way – the course of the old railway track. (1 mile) Here you can turn right and walk to the end
St Gudula’s Well (Gulwell).
(its junction with the A38 Devon Expressway slip road) (1.8 miles) or left to bring you back to St Lawrence Lane and East Street (1.2 miles). (Bulliver was the name of the engine when trains ran along the line.)
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