Dunkery Beacon Walk | Exmoors Highest Point

Walk description:

Dunkery Beacon is the highest point of Exmoor National Park at 519m. On a clear day it offers spectacular 360 videos across the park, from forested valleys to wide open moorlands, historical hamlets and rolling hills of green farmlands.

Our walk will begin at Wheddon Cross, the highest village on Exmoor. We will take care crossing a few roads before soon finding ourselves on the Coleridge Way, a long distance walking route covering 51 miles from the Quantock Hills to Exmoor.

We don't have quite that far to walk though, instead winding our way through woodlands and fields to the open access lands around Dunkery Hill. There are lots of paths here, but we will slowly head north east, before turning west and reaching the summit of Dunkery Beacon itself.

To loop back around to the car our path will take us south, off the hill and onto…