Find your way to Eastcliff Park
Mules Park, Teignmouth, Devon
Postcode: TQ14 8PH Grid Ref: SX945732
Friends of Eastcliff Park
The ‘Friends’ are a group of people interested in the general maintenance and restoration of Eastcliff Park,
They are a group of local residents from across
Teignmouth who are working with Teignbridge to plan for the future of
the Park and to help restore parts of it, including the Dell and The Orchard Garden.
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Eastcliff Park is a large historically significant local green space sitting on top of the cliffs above the sea and the railway line. It consists of three distinct parts, The Rowdens, a lawned area overlooked by the beautiful Rowdens House, the Dell, a sub-tropical garden with three ponds, and Mules Park, open grassland. The Park offers all its users a relaxing recreational environment.
Just a short walk up from the end of the promenade, Eastcliff Park is one of Teignmouth’s hidden gems.
There are sloping meadows packed with wildlife, plenty of space to walk the dog and enjoy the views down to the sea and estuary. Eastcliff Park also offers formal lawns in front of the Rowdens House, an orchard, an ancient Walled Garden which is under restoration and a sub-tropical valley garden known as The Dell.
The cliff-top has a carpet of lilac, gold and green:
The blue sky bounds the ocean, the white clouds scud between.
A flock of gulls are wheeling and wailing round my seat;
Above my head the heaven, the sea beneath my feet.
Robert Bridges 1930
The blue sky bounds the ocean, the white clouds scud between.
A flock of gulls are wheeling and wailing round my seat;
Above my head the heaven, the sea beneath my feet.
Robert Bridges 1930
Autumn
Mules Park looking South, painting by Maureen Fayle
I think it was in 2016 that I visited Maureen's cottage on the old coast path just above the park. She had her garden open to the public for the Teignmouth NGS weekend and had her paintings on display. After admiring the painting she gave me permission to use this copy for use on the park website.
Ever since it has been sitting in my photo library.
It is now exactly one year since Maureen passed away and I have decided to post it in rememberance of a very skilled artist. Whoever owns the painting now is a very lucky person.
