Exmoor Activities

Exmoor Activities: fishing, riding, walking, mountain biking, deer watching, water sports, golf and other

The Exmoor National park offers many opportunities for various activities, especially country based ones, such as fishing, riding and walking. Each of these three activities is described in more detail in their own pages, each of which can be accessed by the main menu or from here:

Our two, all year,self catering cottages are well placed for all of these. Andrew is a keen on fly fishing and photography and we both enjoy walking and exploring Exmoor's hidden areas. Unspoilt Exmoor offers considerable scope for finding your own particular other activity. Three others are described below:

MOUNTAIN BIKING AND OTHER CYCLING

MOUNTAIN BIKING Exmoor has both interesting routes through some spectacular countryside, some of which are extreme routes. Several of these are described in specific leaflets produced by the National Park. These contain maps of the main routes and alternatives together with descriptions of the terrain and countryside. We keep a stock of the ones close to us for our guests. These include descriptions of routes on and around Wimbleball Lake and Haddon, within two miles of us. Croydon Hill between us and Dunster about 8 miles away and North Hill just west of Minehead, overlooking the Bristol Channel, about 12 miles away. About 7 miles away is Dunkery Beacon with various routes up and around it, as shown on the right. Also see the link to exmooradventures below. amongst other things, they hire bikes and can deliver them to our cottages.

OTHER CYCLING Although Exmoor is hilly, it is easy to plan cycle routes along roads and lanes without taking in too many hills. Those along river valleys offer shady routes for several hours cycling, such as from Dulverton north along the A396 and then west, through the village of Winsford up Winsford Hill and then taking a circular route back. Alternatively, there are panouramic routes along the top of upland moorland areas and valley ridges, such as along the B3224 which traverses Exmoor from east to west, and can be joined 4 miles north of us.

DEER WATCHING AND EXPLORATION BY LANDROVER

Several small companies offer Landrover explorations to the inner parts of the moor, through woods, rivers and grassy upland moor inaccessible to normal vehicles. Here you will see hidden areas of Exmoor and view its wildlife, including its wild red deer -- great scope for photography!	For something different, why not sit back and let some one else do the exploration for you, take you to parts of Exmoor that you probably wouldn't normally be able to visit and listen to their local knowledge?
The nearest operates from Dulverton, 4 miles away	Barle Valley Safaris

WATER SPORTS Wimbleball Lake, just two miles form us, is developing a water sports centre where visitors can hire Canadian canoes, kyaks, sailing dingys and rowing boats and also book tuition for these. All equipment, including life jackets, is provided and there is a new, large, shower room for anyone to use. Sailing dingies are Laser Picos and Laser Stratos. On Friday evenings they offer Taster Sessions" for people, young and old, to try theit hand in theses different "craft" unders qualified supervision. More details will be added here soon, in the meantime for further information and booking phone Wimbleball Water Centre on 01398 371460.

WATER SPORTS, MOUNTAIN BIKING, ROCK CLIMBING, COASTEERING AND MORE Exmoor Activities run courses in all these and also provides tuition to groups, families.

West Somerset Railway This is an extremely popular and famous attraction. It offers visitors the ability to tailor-make a half, or even a full, day to their own interests. It runs from Minehead, east to Bishops Lydeard, at the foot of the Quantock Hills, through 20 miles through fine coastal an inland scenery. With 9 more atmospheric old building stations it stops mainly in small villages offering other sites and interests, you can stop off, explore, have a quite beer in pub, have a picnic, explore new walks with your dog, (the train is dog friendly!), dine on the train, book a themed journey, or whatever you decide to do or see.

GOLF There are several golf courses within 30 - 40 minutes car from us, and more sightly further afield. All these have green fee arrangements for visitors.

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