East Devon Group

Walkers picnicking looking out on lush green hills.

Walking in East Devon

Welcome to East Devon Ramblers. We usually walk in and around East Devon and West Dorset, but occasionally further afield to Dartmoor and Exmoor, as well as other parts of Devon, Dorset, and Somerset.

East Devon is predominantly an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with sweeping rural and coastal views — both often available within the same circular walk. A characteristic example being the ‘East Devon Way’ linear route between Exmouth and Lyme Regis. The local section of the South West Coast Path includes a spectacular portion of the Jurassic Coast, Britain's first natural World Heritage Site.

Our published programme often provides a number of walks with the possibility of food and beverages afterwards. Typically, Friday half-day walks may offer an optional lunch at the end, usually in a pub, and some all-day walks finish at a cafe for tea and cake.

Our friendly walking community

We are known for being a friendly, welcoming, and well run group, with over five hundred members and many confident leaders, generating a steady supply of walks and events. This provides many choices of terrain and pace to suit your walking style, and a busy social calendar including quizzes, evening meals, and the ever-popular Christmas lunch.

A regular week looks like this:

Sunday - a choice of two full-day walks including a picnic lunch. Typically, one will be a moderate or strenuous walk between 9 and 13 miles, and the other a leisurely walk between 7 and 9 miles.
Wednesday – a choice of two-full day walks including a picnic lunch, either moderate or strenuous, and between 8 and 12 miles.
Friday – a choice of two morning walks, usually one leisurely and the other moderate, between 4 and 6 miles. Sometimes there is the option of a pub lunch afterwards.

Visitors

There is generally no pre-booking for group led walks, unless specifically mentioned by that walk leader.

Please contact them directly, through the phone number given in the walk details, if you have any unanswered queries.

East Devon Members

See new Members' Page "What We Do" below under 'Find Out More'.

Due to recent IT changes we cannot make changes to walks once published.
N.B. We suggest you hold onto the printed programme as the definitive reference, and ring the relevant leader if you need more information about a particular walk.

Click below to download/view the recent or upcoming Walks Programme.

Spring 2024

March to June 2024 (3.7MB)

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Upcoming walks and events

Views of the Exe Valley.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

Blackingstone Rock and surrounds.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.2 miles

Newton's First Law of Motion.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.5 miles

Stiles for miles. NEW LEADER

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

To the 'Secret Wood'.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 8.0 miles

Tipton through the tulips.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

Pebblebed Heaths.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.5 miles

Across and along the Culm.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 11.0 miles

Around Budleigh.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 4.5 miles

Romance with Jane Austen, walk with Sense and Sensibility.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.0 miles

Byways of Colwell.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

Dorset highs and lows.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

Ups and downs.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

Around Otterton.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.5 miles

It is all level - really.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.5 miles

Coney's Castle.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 7.3 miles

Lunch amid the Bluebells part II.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.0 miles

Pig farming and train spotting.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Another fort to visit.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

Around Hartridge.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.0 miles

Ladram Bay in the merry month of May.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Birdcage walk.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 8.0 miles

A Dulverton dawdle?

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.5 miles

Easier Exmoor walk.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.6 miles

A couple of Budleighs.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

Re-Joyce - A walk in memory of Joyce Stephenson.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.5 miles

Heathland and ponds.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Hardy's Monument and beyond.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.2 miles

The best view in East Devon.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

An Exmouth loop.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 11.0 miles

Is it Devon or Somerset? A bit of both!

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.5 miles

Reverse pixie hunt.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

A visit to Lady Nelson.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.0 miles

Weston with no cowboys.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.0 miles

Up Jacob's Ladder and down the snakes.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.5 miles

Ancient Abbotsbury.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

Over to East Budleigh.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 4.5 miles

River, sea and moor.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Rolling Mid Devon hills around Bampton.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.5 miles

River and tors.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 8.0 miles

We are off to see the sea.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.5 miles

Up and down and around.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Beyond our Kenn.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.0 miles

“Where ‘er you walk”...to the coast!

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 8.0 miles

We are going on a bear hunt.

Start:

Difficulty:: Strenuous

Distance:: 12.0 miles

The Teign Valley.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.5 miles

The 'Secret Woods' walk.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.5 miles

A date with the Exe.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.2 miles

Up, up then Downlands.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Clockwise by request.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 8.0 miles

Wonderful Wistman's Wood.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.5 miles

Moors and coast.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

Both sides of the Exe.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.0 miles

Familiar? Different time of year.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.0 miles

Another wander Starcross & Powderham.

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.0 miles

High Moor Link 3: Circular Walk.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

Perkins fetch the Rolls.

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.0 miles

Find out more

Join the Ramblers and enjoy

unlimited free access to 50,000 Ramblers group walks
a library jam-packed with thousands of tried-and-tested routes
a welcome pack teeming with top tips plus our quarterly Walk magazine
exclusive discounts from our partners
knowing your support is opening up more places to walk and helping more people discover the joy of walking

Join now for just £3.42 per month