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1: The Quick Way via Honiton

Navigation notes

Routes 1 and 3 on the map

From Exeter find your way to the A30.

From the city centre you might take Magadalen Rd (pron. Mordlin) to the B3183 and Honiton Rd.

0.0 mi 50.7287, -3.4643 Get on to the A30 following signs to “Honiton A30”

12.6 mi 50.7935, -3.2110 To visit Honiton take the left lane exit s/posted “Honiton A375”.

0.5 mi At the T i/s turn l. s/p “Town Centre”.

Otherwise, to continue towards Dorchester . . .

1.7 mi 50.8042, -3.1800 Exit left at the r/bout on to the A35 s/p “Dorchester / A35”. Then follow
the Dorchester signs through the outskirts of Honiton.

31.8 mi 50.7124,-2.5526 A little under half a mile before Winterbourne Abbas you’ll enter a small
wood. Look for a castle-like house set back among the trees on the right. Just past that, again
on the right, you’ll see the Nine Stones of Winterbourne Abbas. It’s a small prehistoric stone
circle. Made of sarsen stone, like the stones of Stonehenge, it is about 8m in diameter. Learn
more on Wikipedia

0.4 mi 50.7132, -2.5432 Winterbourne Abbas. Pop. 355.

The Thomas Hardy Memorial: Just opposite the BP Petrol Station, turn r. on to the B3159.
About 100 yards later bear r. at the Y intersection on to Coombe Rd. You’ll now rise and fall over
classic Dorset farmland and 2.3 mi along Coombe Rd turn l. to the Hardy Monument. Surprisingly,
in Dorset, the home and inspiration for author Thomas Hardy, this monument is not to him. It is,
rather to Thomas Hardy, Lord Nelson’s captain aboard HMS Victory, his flagship in the Battle of
Trafalgar, made famous by Nelson’s dying words, “Kiss me, Hardy . . . “. If nothing else, you get a
fine view of the Dorset countryside.

In Winterbourne Abbas the Coach and Horses Inn is well regarded for accommodation and meals.
Been serving travellers since at least 1814.

From Winterbourne Abbas you can take the B3159, Coombe Rd and Bishops Hill, about 6 miles
out to Abbotsbury.

Continuing along the A35 from Winterbourne Abbas towards Dorchester . . .

4.8 mi 50.7001, -2.4475 To visit Dorchester town centre at the r/bout on the southern edge of the
town, take the 1st exit s/p “Town Centre”
Dorchester

2: The Pretty Way – along the coast.

Following the coastline through towns and villages such as Lyme Regis, Seaton and Sidmouth.