4.8 km along the coast and 5.5 inland
Part of section 60 in the SWCPA handbook
As we are planning to stay at Hook Farm campsite for the next couple of days, and it is possible to walk directly from there to the Lyme Undercliffe, we thought it better to deviate from the formal East to West order, so parked Frodo at the Jurassic car-park in Seaton.
From there we had a short there and back, across the oldest surviving concrete bridge in England and up through a golf course to the junction that, hopefully we will get to tomorrow. It was quite steep up the drive to the Golf Club, so hopefully we have saved a steep “down and up” at the end of the coastal walk tomorrow.
From here we stopped for coffee by the harbour, and then walked along the Seaton Promenade, very different from Lyme Regis yesterday, with few people about, partly due to somemist and low cloud, but Seaton does not have all the attraction of Lyme and looked rather run-down in places.
From the promenade the coastal path continues along the shingle beach, there are warning that this is only possible at low tide, but it is currently a very high shingle beach and I think would be possible unless it was very stormy as well as high tide.
Here the red Devon cliffs start, before a striking white chalk outcrop between Seaton and Beer and on to Beer Head, the most westerly calk Cliffs.
The shingle beach leads to Seaton Hole, where steeps lead to a minor road, and then back onto a cliff path to Beer. Quite a climb over the chalk cliffs, but rewarded by a view down into Beer, though a little obscured by the mist.
We had a picnic lunch down on the beach and watched fishing boats being winched up the steep shingle bank.
There is a bridleway that links Beer with Seaton, providing an easier route that the Coastal path, but the main road has been closed by a major landslip and so we had to go back down Seaton Hole and across the Shingle beach before reaching the promenade.
