Almost two centuries ago ,Sir Thomas Acland planted many conifers to provide timber for the Killerton Estate.

What to explore?

• 12 waymarked trails in the forest,
•  variety of birds, including woodpeckers, owls, and buzzards
•  wildflowers, including bluebells, primroses, and cowslips

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The most popular are green and red.

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	Free Ashclyst Forest

Map of Walk 1

Walk 2 Ashclyst Forest (3 miles)

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Various picnic tables

The tracks are generally well maintained but some stretches can be muddy after heavy rain.

terrain:	tracks, paths
	lanes
stiles	0
main roads	0 %
	after rain
altitude range	67 - 121 m

Map of Walk 2

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Walk 3 Killerton to Ashclyst Forest (3.6 miles)

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The Walk

A From entrance to Killerton (car park) cross the lane to a gate . Follow path into an orchard; this curves right to another gate.
Head left to join footpath to Killerton post office.

B Continue along lane until just after the Motorway bridge. Turn left onto some steps leading to a permissive path.

C Follow path and keep right of house.
Cross main road onto a track. Then soon turn right onto another path which runs parallel to the track.
Where it joins another track turn right. After 180m turn left through kissing gate, just before entrance to a house .Continue along path ,through an orchard - walk diagonally right to a kissing gate then continue though woodlands

D Turn left at a junction onto a track , through gate. Head in south easterly direction to another gate then in a north easterly direction towards Ashclyst forest - this permissive path through fields is not clearly defined.

E At the gate turn left into Ashclyst Forest following the blue trail. From here all paths are well maintained.
Head north until you reach a lane. Turn left and continue along this lane until it joins the main Exeter to Cullumpton Road. Cross carefully into Budlake At a junction turn left.

F After a small residential area turn right and follow a permissive path which skirts and , in the end , crosses the motorway. Walk straight ahead onto a path which eventually leads you to a lane.

G Turn right at the lane then left onto a track taking you back to Killerton.

Map of Walk 3

Killerton Car Park

	Walk 4 Ashclyst short walk (1.6 miles)
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