Riviera Line - Starcross Station
Starcross offers great views across the Exe Estuary, an internationally important site designated for its special birdlife.
When the railway station opened in 1846, Starcross was one of the villages along Brunel’s famously ill-fated ‘Atmospheric Railway’. Now it is the location of the only remaining pumping station. During the 19th century “many persons resort to it (Starcross) who cannot bear the stronger sea air of the coast.”
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Riviera Line - Starcross - Cockwood Circular - 3.3 miles (5.3 km)
- Moderate
Walk to Cockwood and then enjoy a circular walk from Cockwood harbour. This was created when Brunel built the South Devon line in the 1840s. Continue past marshland full of wildlife then climb up Cofton Hill for magnificent views of the Exe estuary. There has been a settlement in Cockwood since Norman times.
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Riviera Line - Starcross - Orcombe Point - 5.8 miles (9.4 km)
- Moderate
Take the ferry across to Exmouth and then travel above a red sandstone/mudstone coastline formed over 250 million years ago in a desert near the Equator. Walk through the sand dunes and check out the wildlife of the Maer Local Nature Reserve. Discover the famous Geoneedle at Orcobe Point.
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Riviera Line - Starcross - Powderham - 4.4 miles (7.0 km)
- Moderate
Follow the Exe Valley Trail upstream skirting Powderham Castle and its lovely deer park. Pass the Belvedere folly and the village of Kenton before returning to Starcross via Warborough Hill with its views of the Exe estuary from Topsham to Exmouth. There is some ascent and descent mixed amongst the flat or gently undulating stretches.
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