Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

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Description

The Blackdown Hills are a range of hills along the Somerset-Devon border in south-western England, which were designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in 1991. The plateau is dominated by hard chert bands of Upper Greensand with some remnants of chalk, and is cut through by river valleys. The hills support an extensive range of wildlife leading to the designation of 16 Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). There is evidence of human occupation since the Iron Age. Fortifications include the remains of ancient hill forts, Norman motte-and-bailey castles and Second World War airfields. There are also religious buildings such as Dunkeswell Abbey and village churches. The hills are crossed by a network of minor roads with major transport routes including the M5 motorway running around the periphery.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Beacon Lane
  • Beckford Bridge
  • Belcombe Drove
  • Broadhembury Circular Walk
  • Broom's Lane
  • Byway
  • Castle Wood Lane
  • Combe Lane
  • Dalwood Lane
  • East Deane Way
  • Ewecroft Lane
  • Exeter to Honiton Way
  • Green Knap Lane
  • Green Lane
  • Herepath Trail - Blagdon Hill
  • Herepath Trail - Castle Neroche
  • Herepath Trail - Churchstanton
  • Herepath Trail - Otterford
  • Herepath Trail - Thurlbear
  • Middleroom Drove
  • Monmouth Rebellion Walk
  • Nick Reed's Lane
  • North Down
  • Orange Way
  • Rainbow Lane
  • Rhododendron Walk
  • Staple Fitzpaine Herepath
  • Street Ash Lane

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Andrewshayes Holiday Park
  • Beacon Hill
  • Blagdon Hill Stores
  • Castle Neroche
  • Danes Hill
  • Dumpdon Hill
  • Forest Glade
  • Formerly Dunkeswell Memorial Museum
  • Hawley Farm Holiday Lets
  • Hemyock Castle
  • Holly Bush Park
  • Horner Hill
  • Lakeview Manor
  • Monkton Court Hotel
  • Quarts Moor
  • Route 303
  • Source of River Culm
  • Source of River Otter
  • Stockland Great Castle
  • Stockland Little Castle
  • The Aviator
  • The Belfry
  • Viceroy

Copyright

The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from Viewfinderpanoramas.org (Jonathan de Ferranti). Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Sealman https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blackdown_Hills_at_Dalwood.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)