Medium difficulty. Distance 3 miles (4.5 km)
A gentle 3 mile (4.5 km) walk crossing several braids of the river Culm. This walk can be linked to the Hemyock to Owleycombe route (walk 5).
From the car park next to the Baptist church, turn left along Fore Street past the village pump to the Catherine Wheel pub. Take the road signposted to Dunkeswell, past the pub on your left and St Mary’s church and the castle on your right. After 300 m take the footpath on the right, opposite a bungalow. Cross three fields keeping close to the right-hand edge in the first and third fields, and close to the left-hand edge in the second field. This leads to a short stretch of grassy track and then onto a lane. Turn right here, past the entrance to Conigar Farm. After about 200 m you will come to a four-way junction of tracks and paths: take the right-hand track and continue downhill for 100 m to a lane.
Turn right on to the lane, past Tedburrow Farm and on to the Culmstock Road. Cross over the road (which can be busy) and take the footpath opposite, walking straight downhill across the first field, through a gate, then diagonally across to the left-hand corner of the next field and over a bridge. Keeping the river on your right and ignoring the first, very narrow bridge, cross two more fields and two further bridges. Walk uphill across the final field, over a stile and onto a lane by the side of a thatched cottage. Turn right and almost immediately right again, past Whitehall mill and remnants of Whitehall Halt and the railway line that once ran from Tiverton to Hemyock. About 0.5 km further on you will come to the Culmstock Road again: turn left and return to Hemyock.
