Haddon Hill - Bury - Wimbleball Dam - Haddon Hill
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This walk starts and finishes at the Frogwell Lodge car park, provided by the Exmoor National Park Authority. It boasts toilets, an information board and a picnic table. You soon reach the highest point of the walk at the Hadborough triangulation point and will have superb views over Wimbleball Lake and to Exmoor beyond. The trees of Haddeo Valley where you are now heading, curve below you as you begin the long downhill section. From Haddon Farm the sunken track heads down to Bury, giving glimpses through the trees of the valleys either side.
Bury is a delightful village and the chocolate-box scene at the ford is one to linger over. You leave the village and join the path running sometimes alongside the river and at others above it. This is a very peaceful section of the walk and occasional logs by the side of the path make ideal resting-points to sit and watch the birds or gaze into the fast-flowing water. You know you are at the end of the river section when you leave the trees and pass the trout farm. Fishermen can gaze over the hedge at the ponds and dream.
A short section of quiet road follows, before you are back on the path and very soon begin to gain some of the height you have lost; gently at first, although there is a short steep section just before the dam. If you have struggled through mud on the bridle-path down to Bury then there is a good chance you will be rewarded by a spectacular outflow from the dam.
After the dam you begin the final section uphill back to the car park. If the going gets too tough, have a break and look behind you as the views open up once again of Wimbleball Lake.
England - South West England - Somerset - Exmoor
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Birds, Great Views, Lake/Loch, River, Toilets, Woodland
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