{"id":8332,"date":"2024-08-20T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/?p=8332"},"modified":"2025-02-04T12:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:12:15","slug":"xxx-eggesford-to-barnstaple-over-the-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/xxx-eggesford-to-barnstaple-over-the-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"106 Eggesford to Barnstaple, over the hills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The scout had seen the transmitter at Huntshaw Cross from Codden Hill and Fullabrook Down and so set off from Eggesford to look from the commanding position of the isolated installation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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The scout went along the familiar tunrpike and left it at Colleton Mills, where the former tollhouse remains.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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He stopped to view from Colleton Bridge the diversion of the Taw<\/a> that was made in 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The scout climbed out of the valley and stopped in Burrington, not the most picturesque village in Devon, but still a working one, dominated by J. Pickard & Co., the agricultural and seed merchants. Within this long established family firm’s Country Store, the scout found the Burrington Community Shop<\/a>. He doubted that he would find anywhere else on his ride so he bought a pasty and a fruit drink to take with him, hoping that there would be somewhere sheltered from the wind around lunchtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Holy Trinity Church, Burrington.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The scout took refuge from a shower beneath a tree when he reached the B3217 between Winkleigh and High Bickington. Then he continued, not quite into the wind, along quiet undulating roads, past scrubland and holiday lets, to the place whose name he always thinks of along with Stockland Hill, Beacon Hill and Waddles Down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n