Walk · Devon

Morte Point and Bull Point

Mortehoe

6MILES

2h 55mON FOOT

340mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

Off-road 88% 12% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 66%Lane & track 22%Road with traffic 12%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at

Mortehoe village car park, beside the toilets on Station Road

Parking

Pay-and-display in Mortehoe village, around 120 spaces, usually space after Woolacombe has filled

Directions to the start →

Six miles and up to three hours round the two roughest headlands on this coast, out to the slate fangs of Morte Point, along to Bull Point lighthouse above Rockham Bay and back over farmland, with 340 metres of climbing on steep rocky coast path. Start in the village car park at Mortehoe, which is pay-and-display with toilets and two dog-friendly pubs beside it, and is a far calmer place to leave a car than Woolacombe below. Dogs are welcome under close control and the point itself is grazed only lightly, so it is a good long off-lead run with grey seals to watch on the rocks; the cliff edges are unfenced and sudden, Rockham beach is reached by a steep stepped path, and the return crosses fields with sheep.

THE SMALL PRINTThe National Trust asks for dogs under close control on Morte Point and on leads through the grazed fields on the return; the coast path here is unfenced above long drops.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

Livestock — leads on

REGION · DEVON

GRID · 51.1805, -4.2050

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.NATIONALTRUST.ORG.UK/VISIT/DEVON/MORTEHOE/MORTE-POINT-BULL-POINT-CIRCULAR-WALK

Morte Point and Bull Point

House rules, decoded

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