Devon reds mixing with satellite dishes
Goats on the cliff path
PoE 2 Stanbury loop a 5 miles
PoE 2 Stanbury loop b 2 miles
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The presence of Morwenstow Composite Signals Station (built in 1969) serves this eight as a reminder of time's passage. Strangely, its sometimes dominant satellite dishes do little to distract from natural scenes of great beauty that feature in this eight. Numerous grazing cattle on the coastal sections add a touch of traditional industry to the gracefully curved, silently rolling metal dishes and spheres.
Steeple Point offers a wide panoramic view over land and sea with dramatically changing skies and numerous distant land marks to identify.
At the other extremity of the eight, Higher Sharpnose Point reaches into the Atlantic to present a perspective of North Cornwall's northerly cliffs rarely seen from land.
Both inland sections feature areas of broadleaf woodland, though farming is dominant throughout this eight. Tonacombe Manor has been in the Waddon-Martyn family for centuries. It has seen more prosperous days but continues to stand proud and to farm its own land.