Lee Bay

About this route

Lee Bay is on the South West Coast Path, on the coast road reached through the Valley of Rocks from Lynton. This beach is rocky at high tide with sand becoming exposed at low tide. Lee Abbey overlooks this most attractive sheltered corner.

Lee is a small village on the North Devon coast near Woolacombe, situated on a rugged stretch of coast, which includes Bull Point and Morte Point, both notorious for shipwrecks in earlier times, and both on the South West Coast Path.

Getting Around

By car, bus, train.

Walking the South West Coast Path.

Facilities

Picnic site above the beach with a toilet block, Parking, Footpaths, Shops and cafes nearby

Terrain

Footpaths, Rocky shore

Accessibility

Interesting information

It is known locally as Fuchsia Valley thanks to the scarlet flowers which burst into life every spring. A stroll from the village through a field brings you to a craggy cove, where low tide reveals rockpools and stretches of sand. The village itself consists of a scattering of old, stone cottages, a neo-Gothic parish church, the Old School Room craft gallery and a friendly pub.