Shute Barton

General information

The National Trust’s properties in East Devon extend to approximately 755 hectares, covering a wide range of landscape types from Lower Halsdon Farm, bordering on the internationally important Exe Estuary in the West to the chalk cliffs of the World Heritage Site at Branscombe in the East.

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