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Ley Farm Cottages

Renovating beautiful self-catering holiday cottages in the Blackdown Hills in East Devon

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  • Walks in the Blackdown Hills
    • 01 Walk around Furley, Howley, Marsh and Yarcombe
    • 02 Walk around Stockland
    • 03 Walk around Upottery and Beacon Hill, Yarcombe
    • 04 Walk around Rower Hill, Stockland
    • 05 Beacon Hill, Stockland
    • 06 Yarty Valley to Stockland
    • 07 Churchinford – Bishopswood – Marsh – Yarcombe
    • 08 Pub Hike: Upottery, Churchinford, Bishopswood, Marsh, Yarcombe
    • 09 Walk up Beacon Hill to Dalwood and Stockland
    • 10 Circular walk to The Kings Arms Stockland
    • 11 Low Yarty Valley to Stockland
    • 12 Pound Lane loop
    • 13 Yarcombe loop
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Autumn gardening and other fun

28th Sep 2025 leyfarmcottages

This week feels like we’ve finally caught up in the garden – albeit a month or so too late! We’ve struggled to make enough time

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A pub hike to celebrate John’s birthday

22nd Jun 2025 leyfarmcottages

We had a day away from the job list on Saturday as we celebrated John’s birthday – with a 15 mile ‘pub crawl’  (aka pub

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A surprise trip to Dalwood Vineyard and other local foodie places

18th May 2025 leyfarmcottages

Despite having a day off on Friday we didn’t get much work done this weekend. Some of our friends had booked the Farmhouse to surprise

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An odd-job gardening sort of weekend

21st Apr 2025 leyfarmcottages

With Good Friday taken up with our final Easter holidays same-day changeover, we spent most of the remaining weekend days outdoors catching up on odd

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Neighbourly acts of kindness

9th Mar 2025 leyfarmcottages

This feels like a productive week – with the dry warm weather and with the help of some of our fabulous neighbours we’ve ticked several

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A winter lodger and a late weekend booking

12th Jan 2025 leyfarmcottages

This weekend we tackled another of our ‘Big jobs for 2025’ – cleaning out the shed and tidying it. It’s been a few years since

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