Medium difficulty. Distance 4.5 mils (7 km)
Leave the village hall turning right and then immediately left towards the church, following the lane until you see the signs for footpath (FP 9). Go right as you leave the first gateway across the field, through another gate and then make towards a gap in the hedge with a small bridge across a ditch. Follow the path uphill through another field with a gateway and then upwards to another gateway where you will meet Groundhead road.
Turn right onto thew road and then turn immediately left downhill towards Millhayes. Leave Lower Seavington Farm on your right and turn left just past Mayes Cottage where you will find the footpath (FP 12) a few hundred yards on your right. Take the gateway through two fields and over two stiles and ditches to Horseplot where you will meet another Devon lane. Follow the lane alongside the woods of Shorebottom turbary then uphill past a wood yard on your right and nursery on your left until you come across another footpath on your right (FP 13). This is a shortcut across the field back to the road, but you will get a chance to see the wonderful Lucombe Oak of Broadhayes on your right. Follow the path until you hit the road again turning right into Broadhayes with a series of very fine old, listed buildings. Follow the road uphill again until you reach another footpath on your right (FP 14) (Stockland Great Camp is just a short distance uphill from this path and can be viewed from the road with its substantial ditches and defensive works – you can also view it from the footpath).
Leave the entrance to the footpath and walk straight across the field towards its shortest point where there is a stile that takes you onto Ewecroft Lane (FP 34), a delightful hidden byway that will take you to the top end of Shorebottom. Turn left on to the road past Mount Pleasant Farm on you left and, after another 600 yards or so, take the next footpath on your right (FP 22). On you left is a fine view of Stockland Little Camp although there is no access beyond the footpath.
On reaching the road turn left down into Millhayes past the old Methodist Chapel on your right (now called Chapelcroft) downhill back towards Mayes Cottage again, only this time follow the footpath at the bottom of the hill to the left along the Corry Brook (FP 11). This path follows the old mill stream through a series of fields, across another lane, then through a garden, and field until you reach the lane at Huntshayes. Follow this until you reach the wider road at Hornshayes bridge and turn right uphill for another 500 yards past a road junction on your right. After a few hundred yards you can take the first lane on your right along White’s Lane back to the Church at Churchstyle – or if you wish you can follow the road back to the village – they are both the same distance!
