 | Best Devon Walks |
| | Best Devon Walks |
| Best Stoke Woods Walks |
| 2 TOP Walks |
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| Stoke Woods |
| Walk 1 | Stoke Woods |
| 1.4 miles (40 mins) | |
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| Walk 2 | To Bampford Speke |
| 7.2 miles (3 hours) | |
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| Nearby |
Recently most confiners have been replaced with native trees. As a result wood anemonies can be seen during spring.
Note:
Stokewoods has become a victim of its own success!
Only in summer when it has been dry is any walk through Stokewoods to be recommended , unless you enjoy traipsing through quagmire conditions!
 | Jane Austin & Sense and Sensibility |
 | At Brampford Speke & Stoke Canon |
 | Stoke Woods Main Car Park |
| Walk 1 Stoke Woods (1.4 miles allow 1 hour) |  | |
| MAP |
Difficulty:
This is a short but very pleasant walk to a view point which inspired Jane Austen to write Sense & Sensibility.
In the distance you may be looking at 'Barton Park' ,'...four miles northward of Exeter' .
Opposite the car park, at the top of the hill stood once a Roman Signal Station.
 | The walk includes some steep descents and some stretches can be quite muddy! |
Very steep paths are marked as >> on map.
 | Walk 2 To Bampford Speke (7.2 miles) |  |
| MAP |
Difficulty:
This popular walk through some of the most beautiful countryside Devon has to offer starts at Stokewoods (see Car Park).
It takes you into Brampford Speke via what could have been Jan Austen's Barton Cottage and continues along an old railway line to Stoke Canon & returns via Huxham Church.
It follows part of :
East Valley Way, .
| map of walk |  |
Brampford Speke:Lazy Toad
Stoke Canon :Stoke Canon Inn
Caution:
 | A396 needs to be crossed. |
| Walks near Stoke Woods | |
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| Exeter University | |
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| Stoke Canon | |
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| Cowley | |
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| Mincinglake Valley Park | |
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