Beaches & Beauty Spots

  • Hartland Carnival
    This makes it onto the beauty spot list as it is a unique rural village, unspoilt and unchanged and offering the kind of traditional shops...
  • Hartland Sream and PROW Bridge at Marsland Mouth
    The bridge over the stream marks the border between Devon and Cornwall and is on the edge of the very large Marsland Nature Reserve
  • St Catherines Tor Hartland Peninsula
    St .Catherine's Tor is at the side of a sea dissected valley which is rare geological feature in England much visted by geologists, geographers and...
  • Blackchurch Rock from Windbury Hill Hartland Peninsula
    This spectacular rock can be seen from the South West Coast Path near Windbury Hill.   Both photographs by Lovestruck
  • Bluebells in Beckland Woods Hartland Peninsula
    If you park at Brownsham National Trust Car park, you can walk through Beckland Woods to see the magnificent rampart of the Hill Fort at Windbury...
  • Speke's Valley Hartland Peninsula
    Located within the North Devon Biosphere Reserve, a designation that reflects the international importance of the area's diversity and abundance of...
  • Windbury Hill Fort Hartland Peninsula
    Crowning the summit of Beckland cliffs at 330 feet above sea level is Windbury Head Camp, thought to be an Iron Age enclosure or hill fort. Its...
  • Blackpool Mill Valley, Hartland Peninsula
    Situated in a beautiful valley with Blackpool Mill Cottage being the location of both for the B.B.C's drama "Sense and Sensibility" and...
  • Bursdon Moor Hartland peninsula
    One of the last remaining areas of Culm Grassland can be found on this moor which has SSSI status. This high open moorland has far reaching...
  • Berry Beach, Hartland Peninsula
    Accessible from the coast path, Hartland Quay via Blackpool Mill from the south and Blegberry from the north. A very quiet rocky beach with a few...
  • View over Mouthmill hartland Peninsula
    View towards Mouthmill. Photograph by courtesy of Bob Seymour.
  • Welcombe Mouth
    A secluded and quiet bay located at the end of a rough unmade road. A small car park gives access to one of the loveliest beaches near Hartland. Some...
  • Spekes Mill Mouth
    A twenty-minute walk south of Hartland Quay brings you to Speke’s Mill Mouth with its beautiful waterfall and long curving beach. Access to the...
  • Sandymouth
    As the name suggests this large sandy well-sheltered National Trust beach is popular with swimmers and surfers alike. The cliffs surrounding the...
  • Peppercombe
    Delightful fairly steep one mile walk from Horns Cross through woodland passing a myriad of flora and fauna. There is a constant sound of water as...
  • Hartland Quay Looking East
    The spectacular cliffs at Hartland Quay with their incredibly contorted rock layers are always worth a visit and at low tide there is plenty of sand...
  • Duckpool
    Nestling between the high headlands of Warren Point and Steeple Point (both over 100 metres high). Duckpool is approached via a wooded valley .With a...
  • Photo
    Unlike Peppercombe, you can drive most of the way down a long and winding road through the valley to the visitor’s car park. The path then...