Our verdict
The best short pilgrimage in Somerset. The climb from Porlock Weir through the woods to Culbone church is only a couple of miles but feels like leaving the century — sea glinting through oaks, then that impossibly small church in its clearing. Go.
The hanging oak woods on Exmoor's great coastal slope west of Porlock Weir, hiding Culbone's tiny church — the smallest complete parish church in England, reachable only on foot. Coleridge was interrupted writing Kubla Khan just up the hill.
Ancient coastal oakwood crossed by the South West Coast Path. Steep drops seaward — keep dogs on leads and boots sensible.