Aveton Gifford

Accessibility: This route is not suitable for wheelchairs or pushchairs.

Turn left out of car park entrance.  Turn right at t-junction up Church Lane.  Take track on left onto public footpath past Little Court. 

Drop down across field with large spreading tree to a stile.  At the far corner of cultivated area of next field, bear up to right.

Cross footbridge and stone stile.  Go straight up over the hill, and pass to left of large waymarked fence post ahead.  At field edge turn right through gate and onto bridleway, following blue waymarkers up the hill.

At fingerpost at the top of the rise turn left to follow bridleway along field edges and down rocky green lane.

Bear left in front of Stockadon Farmhouse, right past Chestnut and up narrow green lane and farm track to Lixton.  Turn right by the bridge to follow bridleway through fields and woods, above stream.

Bear right just before the house at Idestone, and then turn right along road. 

After 350m fork left through double gates and follow fingerpost arrow across filed to a stile.  Follow field edge path to road, then turn first left up Hoppy Green Lane. 

At t-junction turn right down lane then bear right along the road. 

At bottom of dip, turn right by a small stream onto public footpath.  Cut up through field over the hill and down through cemetery to left and continue down to join road.  At Tree Corner, turn left into village then turn right back into car park. 

Information provided by South Devon AONB