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Glen, Honiton
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Footbridge over Glen Stream, Lower Glen, Honiton.
The Glen, part of Honiton - the Town in the Country, runs from close to the town centre to the boundary of the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Honiton is the smallest of the 39 BBC Breathing Places Communities in England and the second smallest of the 54 communities in the United Kingdom. The Glen, one of five BBC Breathing Places in Honiton, consists of the Lower Glen and the Higher Glen. The Lower Glen is Honiton's only park, given to the former Borough to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V and opened on the Coronation Day of King George VI. The recently restored entrance gates into the Lower Glen were provided by public subscription to commemorate that Coronation. The Higher Glen is a derelict Victorian water garden awaiting restoration in accordance with a conservation management plan that was jointly funded by East Devon District Council and Honiton Town Council. Restoration will be helped by the existence of picture postcards, photographs and magic lantern slides showing the Higher Glen in the first decade of the Twentieth Century and earlier. The Glen Stream flows through the Higher and Lower Glen and there is also an historic leat (water channel) in the Lower Glen.
Partner: Honiton Town Council
Address: The Glen, Off Pine Park Road, Honiton
OS Grid ref: ST167003
Further information: A public footpath linking the Pine Park Road railway bridge and Parsonage Lane runs beside the Lower Glen and the Higher Glen. There are also pedestrian accesses from the Honiton Millennium Green and from the Glen Farm Estate. Anyone seeking to avoid walking uphill from the town centre could travel by bus to Waterleat Avenue and return walking downhill via The Glen. A leaflet, funded by BBC Breathing Places, describing The Glen is usually available free of charge from the Honiton Town Council Office in New Street and from the Honiton Tourist Information Centre in the Lace Walk Car Park (check for opening times).
More Details available from: Administration Clerk, Honiton Town Council
Email: infodesk@honiton.gov.uk
Tel: 01404 42957
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