Getting Out and About

Youngster tucks into icecream on day out in Salcombe [© Clare Pawley Countryside Agency]
Horse riders [© South Devon AONB Unit]

Enjoying

The AONB provides a popular setting for traditional leisure pursuits of walking, hiking, horse-riding, sailing, rowing, angling, beach-going, surfing and birdwatching. There is also a growing generation of active and technical pursuits such as mountain biking, coasteering, diving, canoeing, rock climbing, parascending, hang-gliding and kite-surfing.

Path at Bowcombe © Clare Pawley Countryside Agency

These activities together make a significant contribution to our health and wellbeing, as well as to the viability of services and businesses in the area.

The AONB Management Plan aims to encourage quiet enjoyment of the AONB by residents and visitors through a wide range of recreational routes and leisure opportunities. 

  • Public Rights of Way - Provide access into the countryside. There are 232 miles of public rights of way in the AONB.
  • Walks and trails - Produced and promoted by the AONB and available to download.
  • The South West Coast Path - Forms part of the country’s longest National Trail (68 miles of which is in South Devon AONB) and is the AONB’s primary recreational route.
  • Green Lanes - Ancient routeways running between tall hedgebanks with overhanging trees and are a distinctive feature of the AONB.
  • Events - Calender of events taking place in the AONB.
Website address: http://www.southdevonaonb.org.uk/text.asp?PageId=23
Email: enquiries@southdevonaonb.org.uk
Telephone: 01803 861384
Contact Address: South Devon AONB Unit, Follaton House, Plymouth Road, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 5NE