South West Coast Path
Walking Holiday
South Devon, The English Riviera, The Jurassic Coast and Dorset
Torquay to Weymouth
9 nights and 8 days walking
Chesil Beach, Dorset
South West Coast Path Walking Holiday
Itinerary in Devon and Dorset from Torquay to Weymouth 10 days
South West Coast Path Walking holiday
on the UK’s South West Coast Path in Devon and Dorset
from Torquay to Weymouth
Enjoy an 81 mile self-guided South West Coast Path walking holiday on this section of the UK’s 630 mile long South West Coast Path, the longest of Britain’s 15 National Walking Trails.
8 days walking and 9 nights
On this section of the South West Coast Path walking hoilday you visit the Victorian resorts of Torquay, Exmouth, Sidmouth and Seaton and the famous town of Lyme Regis with its historic cobb. At Abbobsbury you can visit the Swannery and botanic gardens before finishing at Weymouth.
We are based in the South West of England and all our team have detailed local knowledge of the whole of the South West Coast Path.
We don’t expect you to do the whole South West Coast Path walking holiday in one go!
Take your time and enjoy the scenery and wildlife.
Our self-guided walking holidays are designed with your comfort and enjoyment in mind and can be tailor-made to your own personal requirements.
The routes are clearly way-marked to provide reassurance on your hiking vacation.
We use a selection of guest houses, inns or small hotels with en-suite or private bathroom to ensure you are well rested each night after a busy day hiking and sightseeing. Rest assured that all our accommodation walking holiday providers are hand-picked and offer you that famous British hospitality.
Special diets can be catered for, including vegetarian, vegan, and gluten free.
We organize the luggage transfer so your bags are at your next accommodation when you arrive. We try to get your bags delivered by 4pm, but this may be delayed due to road conditions.
Let’s Go Walking has developed one of the largest selection of walking holidays.
Our offices are staffed 9am to 9pm during our walking season (March to September) to ensure your walking holiday runs without a hitch.
All our walking holidays are self-guided and you must be a confident map reader and able to navigate from a compass bearing. The weather in the UK and Ireland can change quickly effecting visibility and underfoot conditions. It is important to carry a selection of clothing with you on your hike each day to cope with changing weather conditions. If you are not confident of completing any days walk, do not set out.
This walking holiday in the UK operates March to September and in either direction.
The daily distances are only a suggestion. If you would like to walk longer or shorter distances, we can arrange that too.
Our stated distances include mileage to the accommodation or pickup point and so may not agree with the guide book mileages.
Rest days can be taken in any location.
Why not combine this walk with a hiking tour in another part of the UK or Ireland. Our staff will be happy to advise on necessary transfers.
Online booking available.
A deposit of £85 per person is required to secure the booking, with the balance due 6 weeks before departure.
Optional extra days and accommodation upgrades can be added during the booking process online.
Please wait for the confirmation of your holiday before making final travel plans just in case your holiday is not available for your requested date.
South West Coast Path Walking Holiday
Torquay to Weymouth
Suggested Tour Duration:
9 nights, 8 days walking
Total Distance:
81 miles
Min/max daily distance:
7/13 miles
Average Daily distance:
10 miles
Features:
Jurassic Coast
Lyme Regis Undercliff
This route connects with:
South West Coast Path Plymouth to Torquay
South West Coast Path Weymouth to Poole
Exe Valley Way
South West Coast Path Walking Holiday
South Devon, the English Riviera,
The Jurassic Coast and Dorset
Torquay to Weymouth
9 nights and 8 days walking
Day 1: Arrive at Torquay
You make your own way to Torquay. We can assist with rail and coach transfers if necessary. Car parking is available for the duration of the walk.
Day 2: Torquay to Teignmouth 11 miles Strenuous
There is plenty to see and do on this section, from Kent’s Cavern to the Babbacombe Model Village. The path winds up and down, in and out through mature woodland as it makes its way through Oddicombe, Watcombe and Maidencombe. You can take the ferry across the River Teign to Teignmouth or walk across Shaldon Bridge.
Day 3: Teignmouth to Exmouth 8 miles Easy
The South West Coast Path makes its way along the breakwater to Dawlish, famous for its black swans. After Dawlish Warren the path follows the River Exe to Starcross. From Starcross you take the ferry to Exmouth for your overnight stop
Day 4: Exmouth to Sidmouth 13 miles moderate/strenuous
This is the start of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. The path leaves Exmouth and makes its way to Budleigh Salterton. You cut inland briefly to cross the River Otter and then along the top of the characteristic red sandstone cliffs of Devon to Sidmouth.
Day 5: Sidmouth to Seaton 10 miles severe
Heading out of Sidmouth you cross the River Sid and make your way up to Salcombe Hill. Following an interesting zigzagging path along the cliffs you eventually come to the quaint village of Branscombe. Leaving Branscombe you walk through the Hooken Undercliff, a chaotic, jumbled wooded slope formed by a landslip in 1790, with red marls, yellow greensand and towers of chalk. After rounding Beer Head you walk through Beer and on to Seaton.
Day 6: Seaton to Lyme Regis 7 miles moderate
Walking through the Undercliff between Seaton and Lyme Regis is like being in a jungle. The rocky shores of Lyme Regis and Charmouth are famous for yielding fossils from the Jurassic period.
Optional Day or Days in Lyme Regis
Spend an extra day or days in Lyme Regis to relax and enjoy this historic seaside town
Day 7: Lyme Regis to Burton Bradstock 11.5 miles Strenuous
The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre down at the beach is full of fossils and is worth a visit. The cliffs are unfortunately very unstable and so the coast path is a little way inland but still affords great views of the Isle of Portland.
Day 8: Burton Bradstock to Abbotsbury 8 miles Moderate
The cliffs here give way to the long pebbly beach of Chesil Bank. The pebbles are bean-sized at this end of the beach, and gradually get larger until they are potato sized on the Isle of Portland.
Optional Day in Abbotsbury: visit the swannery and botanical gardens
Day 9: Abbotsbury to Weymouth 13 miles Moderate/Easy
On leaving Abbotsbury the path, surprisingly, does not go along Chesil Beach but works it way over rolling hills, through fields and past woodlands a little way in from the coast. Then it follows the shores of West Fleet Lagoon until reaching Ferry Bridge, where a narrow spit of lands connects with the Isle of Portland.
Day 10: Depart after breakfast
Depart after breakfast or extend your holiday and spend some time in the area.
We can transfer you to your car or station
Please note the Sidmouth Folk Festival will take place in Sidmouth from Friday 2nd to Friday 9th August 2024.
This affects the availability of accommodation in Sidmouth and our ability to deliver your luggage.
Therefore when booking your walking holiday on this section of the South West Coast Path we suggest you avoid Sidmouth on these dates.
Please note the Ironman Weymouth will take place in Weymouth on Sunday 15th September 2024.
This affects the availability of accommodation in Weymouth and our ability to deliver your luggage.
Therefore when booking your walking holiday on this section of the South West Coast Path we suggest you avoid this date.
South West Coast Path Walking Holiday
10 day itinerary
Torquay to Weymouth
8 days walking and 9 nights
Suggested Itinerary:
Day 1: Arrive Torquay
Day 2: Torquay to Teignmouth 11 miles
Day 3: Teignmouth to Exmouth 8 miles
Day 4: Exmouth to Sidmouth 13 miles
Day 5: Sidmouth to Seaton 10 miles
Day 6: Seaton to Lyme Regis 7 miles
Optional Day: optional extra day in Lyme Regis
Day 7: Lyme Regis to Burton Bradstock 11.5 miles
Day 8: Burton Bradstock to Abbotsbury 8 miles
Optional Day: optional extra day in Abbotsbury
Day 9: Abbotsbury to Weymouth 13 miles
Day 10: Depart after breakfast
10 day itinerary 9 nights
| Double or Twin Occupancy | Single Occupancy travelling with others | Solo Traveller |
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| 2024 | £1,116 | £1,647 | £1,827 |
All prices subject to change
Extra nights from £46.00 per person
Optional Accommodation Upgrades for
South West Coast Path Walking Holiday
Torquay to Weymouth
Can be added when booking online
Subject to availability Supplement per person per night
Weymouth
Hotel Rembrandt
double/twin
£59.00
single
please ask
What’s included
in your South West Coast Path Walking Holiday in UK
- accommodation at high quality guest houses, inns or small hotels on a bed and breakfast basis
- room with en-suite or private bathroom, tea and coffee making facilities
- daily luggage transfer
- support should there be any problems on route
- detailed itineraries
- guide book
- Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps
Optional Extras
for your South West Coast Path Walking Holiday in UK
- upgrade to the region’s most elegant, prestigious and famous hotels, where available
- transfers back to car or station
- parking facilities
- rest days
- inn to inn walks
What’s not included
in your South West Coast Path Walking Holiday in UK
- lunches and dinners
- travel insurance
Lunches and Dinners
These are not included.
Evening meals
These are available at overnight locations, either at your accommodation or in the town/village.
Packed lunches
These can be provided by your accommodation or can be obtained from a local store, or cafe or inn along the route.
Holiday Travel Insurance
We require that you take out holiday insurance as Let’s Go Biking Ltd accepts no liability for the following:
cancellation, personal accident, illness, loss/theft of personal possessions and/or money, and any unforeseen circumstances, especially travel delays.
This is in addition to our existing
booking conditions.
South West Coast Path Walking Holiday Torquay to Weymouth:
How to get there
- By Plane to Exeter or Bournemouth where we can arrange transfer to Torquay
- By Car to Torquay where parking is available
- By Train to Torquay
- By Bus to Torquay
A 630 mile walking route which starts in Minehead in Somerset, goes through Devon and Cornwall and finishes in South Haven Point in Dorset. This forms part of the England Coast Path.
This is one of our Coastal Walking Holidays in UK and Ireland, one of our Cornwall and Bodmin Moor Walking Holidays, one of our Devon and Dartmoor Walking Holidays, one of our Dorset and Jurassic Coast Walking Holidays, one of our Somerset and Exmoor Walking Holidays, and also one of our National Trail Walking Holidays.
Please contact us if you have any questions.
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We have Coastal Walking Holidays in the UK in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Isles of Scilly and the Channel Islands.
This is one of our categories of walking holidays.
- Arran Coastal Way in Scotland
- Causeway Coast Way in Northern Ireland
- Causeway Coast Way and Glens of Antrim in Northern Ireland
- Channel Islands
- Cleveland Way part of the England Coast Path
- Cumbria Coastal Way part of the England Coast Path
- Dingle Way in Ireland
- England Coast Path
- Fife Coastal Path in Scotland
- Great Gardens of Cornwall
- Great Gardens of Devon
- Guernsey, Herm and Sark in the Channel Islands
- Hebridean Way in Scotland
- Isle of Anglesey Coastal Path part of the Wales Coast Path
- Isle of Man
- Isle of Mull
- Isles of Scilly off the coast of Cornwall
- Jersey Coastal Footpath in the Channel Islands
- Kerry Way in Ireland
- Lecale Way in Northern Ireland
- Lleyn Peninsula, part of the Wales Coast Path
- Norfolk Coast Path part of the England Coast Path
- Northumberland Coast Path part of the England Coast Path
- Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path part of the England Coast Path
- Pembroke Coast Path part of the Wales Coast Path
- Rye to Ramsgate on England Coast Path
- Solent Way part of the England Coast Path
- Somerset Coast Path part of the England Coast Path
- South West Coast Path part of the England Coast Path
- Suffolk Coast Path
- Tarka Trail in Devon
- Wales Coast Path
We offer National Trail walking holidays in England and Wales in the UK.
This is one of our categories of walking holidays.
- Cleveland Way
- Cotswold Way
- Cumbria Coastal Way part of the England Coast Path
- England Coast Path
- Glyndwrs Way in Wales
- Hadrians Wall Path
- Norfolk Coast Path part of the England Coast Path
- North Downs Way
- Offas Dyke Path in Wales
- Peddars Way
- Pembroke Coast Path part of the Wales Coast Path
- The Ridgeway
- South Downs Way
- South West Coast Path part of the England Coast Path
- Thames Path
- Yorkshire Wolds Way
