The scout rode across the city and eventually found open country on Parsons Lane, leading to Rockbeare. For a change, he determined not to take more than a few photographs.
He continued via Marsh Green and the modern abomination of West Hill to Ottery Station, where he noted that the building being used by railway contractor, Sisk, when he photographed it in 2022, was now empty. Such is the transience of the railway’s support industry.
He went to see Chunk of Devon’s unprepossessing business unit where the most excellent pies and pasties are created.
Chunk has lost count of the number of awards its pies and pasties have won.
He took the old turnpike to Lyme Regis and climbed Chineway Hill to Chineway Head (the early O.S. has it as “Chinway”), where he turned to follow the lane across the East Hill ridge, through the East Hill Strips. The commanding views of the Otter Valley which once must have been had, are largely obscured.
From White Cross, the road descends to Sidford.
The scout went through Sidford and stopped at the Co-op for a bite of lunch, which he ate on the front in unrelenting sunshine and while enjoying the pleasant holiday atmosphere. After going to the river mouth to see the crumbling cliffs, he set off up Peak Hill Road, which the heat made a harder climb, even in the shade. The summit is at 545 feet, from near sea level on the front.
The scout returned to the city via Exmouth and clocked 52 miles.