Day 14: Exmouth to Chudleigh

Not such an early start today, with Mass at the Holy Ghost at 10.

Then down through Exmouth to the seafront

to the Starcross Ferry across the Exe estuary

At Starcross, you land at the station. Julian reminds me it's a Class 50 (I remember "Ajax" hauling the Exeter-Waterloo service up from St Davids to Exeter Central in the year following this pilgrimage).

Just a couple of miles north to Kenton and lunch at the Dolphin Inn.

After lunch, prayers at All Saints Church before we start the afternoon's climb!

It was gentle at first, through Forestry Commission land and the Mamhead estate to Mamhead Church, where we again stopped to pray.

But from Mamhead there was a sharp climb on indistinct paths (we were not on public footpaths, but had permission to cross the estate). Up through the jungle...

to the obelisk at the top

A couple of miles further, we reached St Nectan's at Ashcombe.

A bit of subtle manoeuvring followed to get us under the A380 Torbay road, which brought us to Ugbrooke House, ancestral home of the Clifford family, who remained loyal to the faith throughout reformation times, and paid for the rebuilding of Buckfast Abbey. We celebrated Benediction in the Chapel, before heading off across the estate and down into Chudleigh.

And this is our accommodation, Chudleigh Town Hall.