Walking Tour activities in Southwest England
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Timewalk
The red-brick Brewer's Quay has a shopping centre as well as Timewalk, a sensory journey through the sights, sound and smells of Weymouth's history from the Black Death and the Spanish Armada to a Georgian ballroom.
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Mayor's Guides
Free historical tours leave from outside the Pump Room at 10:30 and 14:00 Sunday to Friday, 10:30 on Saturday. From May to September there are tours at 19:00 on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.
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Fossil Walks
Fossil fever is catching - even for those with no previous palaeontologic tendencies. Regular fossil walks are run by Dinosaurland Fossil Museum and the Town Museum in the summer.
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Dr Colin Dawes Fossil Walks
Pitch up for a fossil walk led by Dr Colin Dawes, meet at the Old Forge Fossil Shop in Broad Street. They last about 2½ hours.
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Valley of the Rocks
This rocky valley is about a mile's walk west of Lynton, and is well known for its dramatic rock formations, which poet Robert Southey memorably described as 'rock reeling upon rock, stone piled upon stone, a huge terrifying reeling mass'. Many of the rocks have evocative names such as Devil's Cheesewring and Ragged Jack, and you might even spy a feral goat or two wandering along the banks.
Other popular walking trails wind up to the lighthouse at Foreland Point and the riverside glade of Watersmeet, 2 miles upriver from Lynmouth.
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Ridgeway National Trail
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Coleridge Way
This 36-mile (three- to four-day) jaunt runs from the Quantocks to Exmoor, in the footsteps of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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