{"id":274,"date":"2026-09-27T13:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2026-09-27T13:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:23:21","slug":"eight-of-the-best-walks-around-sidmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/walks-and-outdoors\/eight-of-the-best-walks-around-sidmouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight of the best walks around Sidmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sidmouth sits on the South West Coast Path, with big red cliffs to the west and a string of hills and valleys to the east. We\u2019ve gathered the most popular walking routes around the town on OS Maps, the Ordnance Survey\u2019s route app, so you can pick one to suit your legs and your day.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Short and sweet<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sidmouth 2.5 mile and 3 mile circulars are perfect for a morning stretch. The 3 mile loop climbs the cliff path to around 176 m, so it\u2019s short but not flat.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Half a day<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">River Sid and Soldier\u2019s Hill packs plenty of variety into about four miles. The South West Coast Path Association\u2019s Valley, Ridge and Jurassic Coast walk (5.5 miles) takes in The Byes, Mutter\u2019s Moor and Peak Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A full day out<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Head east to Weston Mouth and The Donkey Sanctuary (7.5 miles), or west over Peak Hill to Ladram Bay and Otterton (10.6 miles).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/de\/walks\/\">See all eight walks with distances, times and OS Maps links<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most popular walking routes around Sidmouth on OS Maps, from short seafront loops to a full day on the Jurassic Coast.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walks-and-outdoors","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectsidmouth.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}