Walk - Babbacombe & Oddicombe
2.2 miles (3.6 km)
Walls Hill Road carpark, Babbacombe -TQ1 3LZ Walls Hill Road carpark, Babbacombe
Moderate -
A short but fairly strenuous walk on one of Britain's highest cliff-top promenades, but you can avoid the long and steep downhill section by riding down on the famous funicular railway, built in 1926 and still carrying a quarter of a million passengers a year! This is a very important area geologically and it is rich in wildlife, with 35 nationally scarce species to be found in a grassland habitat found nowhere else in the world. Children will be fascinated by the cliff railway, and by the different kinds of rock and the way they have been overturned.
Checked by SWCPA Volunteer Tino Savvas - June 2019
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English Riviera Tourist Information Centre
Find all the information you need about accommodation, things to do and places to go to enjoy your visit to the English Riviera.