The Torbay Totnes Trail runs from Torquay Railway Station to Totnes Castle. The route between Cockington Country Park and Totnes is shared with the John Musgrave Heritage Trail.
Torquay Station to Marldon Church 4 miles, 6.4 km
Marldon Church to Berry Pomeroy Castle 2 miles, 3.2 km
Berry Pomeroy Castle to Totnes Castle 3.8 miles, 6.1 km
Rail Walks This route showcases the best inland scenery South Devon has to offer, on quiet way-marked footpaths and country lanes. You’ll see the picture postcard thatched cottages of Cockington, with an option to explore the Cockington Country park. You’ll pass Berry Pomeroy castle, supposedly one of the most haunted in the UK. And in between, South Devon’s rolling fields, woods and streams.
http://railwalks.co.uk/totnestorbaytrailov/
OpenStreetMap Map of the Torbay Totnes Trail
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/104743
BusTimes.org the unofficial home of bus, coach and ferry transport information. This interactive map shows bus stops and live bus positions with links to routes and time tables.
https://bustimes.org/map#13/50.4523/-3.6006
The countryside between Torquay and Totnes in South Devon comprises a landscape of attractive valleys with a quiet and away-from-it-all atmosphere. A perfect way of exploring this scenic area is to use the footpaths and tracks which are followed by two of Devon's promoted walking routes. These two routes, the Totnes-Torquay Trail [or 3T's for short] and the John Musgrave Heritage Trail coincide between Marldon, on the edge of Torquay, and Totnes, and this is the route followed here.
The 3T's links Totnes with Torquay Station and Sea Front, but the John Musgrave Heritage Trail is a longer, more ambitious route. The route commemorates the Torquay man John Musgrave, a man who worked and studied in the Middle East and in Europe but who on retirement returned to South Devon. He was a passionate walker, an activity which helped him overcome his childhood polio. On his death he left a legacy to the South Devon Group of the Ramblers' Association to set up a long-distance walk encircling Torbay. In partnership with the Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust, Devon County Council, South Hams and Teignbridge District Councils and Torbay Council, the result is the Heritage Trail named in his memory. This stretches from Maidencombe, on the coast north of Torquay to Brixham, via Totnes and the Dart Valley, a superb trail of some 35 miles/56 km.
This walk is a one-way length from Marldon to Totnes, using the regular and relatively frequent bus service between the two to take you from Totnes to the starting point at Marldon, a pleasant ride in its own right.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160426031150/http://www.devon.gov.uk/walk80
