Secret Hills Walking Holidays
Exmoor
Walking Lorna Doone Country on Exmoor’s Brendon Hills
The Brendon Hills - are a little known but quietly beautiful landscape in West Somerset. The Brendons are characterised by rolling hills deeply dissected by wooded valleys. They rise to over 400 metres at Wiveliscombe Barrow, and to the west they merge into Exmoor. The sandstones, mudstones, siltstones and slates are overlain generally by fine loamy reddish soil, the land being used principally for dairying and stock rearing. During the 19th century a number of small mining settlements grew around local deposits of iron ore, and many buildings and features from this industry remain.
The Brendon Hills blend into Exmoor, with their highest point at Lype Hill (1380 feet) Here you’ll find the remote village of Oare with its church immortalized in Lorna Doone and the Doone Valley.
From the south, the Brendon Hills present another impressive spectacle, climbing to around 1,000 feet before plunging precipitously down to the Bristol Channel coast.
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