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centuries — Perriam's Way, better known to hunting 

 people as the Green Path. It runs from Hawkcombe 

 Head across the Weare Water and Chalk Water 

 below Acmead and by Larkbarrow to the Warren 

 and Pray Way to Exe Head, and joins the old road 

 before mentioned near Moles Chamber. These were 

 the most used tracks ; there were, of course, others 

 leading from hamlet to hamlet, but they must have 

 been little used, though the traces of them, deep 

 ruts in the heather, are clearly discernible. . A good 

 specimen is the track from North Molton to Porlock, 

 which came by the existing road to Landacre, and 

 by Chibbet Post, anciently Chubbizete, to Exford, 

 not by the present road, but by the deep pack-horse 

 track and occupation line straight down the hillside 

 to the bridge, and up the other side by the track we 

 ride going to the meet at Cloutsham. The Horner 

 Valley was crossed at Pool Bridge, and the riders 

 went along the green trackway on the north side of 

 Lee Hill, above Bell Wood, and down the rocky 

 path to Doverhay. 



A very old track ran from Porlock Weir to the old, 

 long-forgolten Manor of Bagley, md Porlock Ford, 

 and up a narrow, winding track to Birchhanger, over 

 the hill to Broadway, across the middle of Hawk- 

 combe to Luccott, thence by Wilmersham and Stoke 

 Pero to Bagley. It can be traced, and there is, I 

 believe^ a right of way there now ; but a few years 

 ago, before the new Ordnance Survey, it was marked 

 on the maps, it was actually coloured on a cycling 



