(S/E) From Cockhaven Arms car park entrance, turn left and follow The Orchard uphill. At the junction with Bishops Avenue, turn right. At the next junction, turn left.
(1) Beyond Bishopsteignton Methodist Church, turn right into Clanage Street. Turn right into Berry Hill immediately after the Commercial Inn. At the next junction, turn left into Teign View Road.
After 30 yards, turn right onto a footpath between two driveways. Beyond a stile, the path climbs uphill between trees to a second and then a third stile into an open field. The path bears slightly right past a telegraph pole to the projecting corner of the hedge opposite.
(2) Follow the hedge uphill, then beyond a gateway on the left continue along the side of a wood. Climb a stile next to a farm gate and continue to the end of a track. Pass between a covered reservoir and a barn and follow the track out to the road.
Turn right and follow the road for 1⁄4 mile to a junction at Gypsy Corner. Keep straight on (signposted ‘Teignmouth’) and, after 130 yards, turn right under the height-restriction bar for White Well picnic site.
(3) Keep left of a ‘Little Haldon Heaths’ board and pass a picnic table. Bear left over a stile and follow a delightful path through trees and bracken with views over the Teign estuary. Shortly after a bench, the path bends left and climbs a couple of sets of steps, then winds through gorse to a small car park.
(4) Turn right to the road, where you turn right. At the crossroads, turn right (Old Walls Hill). Follow the lane downhill for 1⁄2 mile, passing the former Bishop’s Palace on your right, and then the Old Walls Vineyard.
(5) At the junction with Radway Street, turn right and walk into the village, passing the entrance to Bronescombe Avenue and Radway Gardens on your left. Keep left at the junction with Manor Road and walk downhill past Tapley Gardens on the right and Wallis Grove on the left.
(6) At the next junction, turn left down Shute Hill. After 100 yards or so, turn right into Cockhaven Road and
continue until you return to the Cockhaven Arms. (S/E)
