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Detailed Route Plan 3 ST 176 395 1 ST 190 396 The Coleridge Way Go through the gate head uphill, follow- The best place to park in Nether ing the left hand field boundary to- Stowey is the car park in Castle - Nether Stowey to Bicknoller - wards a group of trees. Continue up & Street. If you want to start from 9.6 miles (15.5Km), total ascent 1 748’ (533m) across the field, passing a small, dis- Coleridge Cottage walk down Cas- used quarry on the right, to a gate. tle Street (NE), turn left into Lime Street. Coleridge cottage is 5 ST 156 395 Near here is the site of Walford’s gib- opposite the Ancient Mariner pub. Turn right (north) and across Wood- bet. Walford was hung there in 1789 Now retrace your steps. lands Hill. You are walking above Hol- for the murder of his wife. His body ford Combe with views of the more hung in a cage for a year and a day. From the car park follow the road 8 remote moorland tops of the Quan- SW, up & over the hill. At the end tocks to the west. To the east are good Follow the lane uphill for just under ½ of the road turn left. Follow the Alfoxton Park views towards the Mendip hills and the mile. Look out for the signpost on the road for about 100m, then turn Hotel P coastline of the Bristol channel. As you 7 right, signed ‘Greenway’. right onto the obvious wide bri- Holford descend Woodlands hill keep the dleway, with blue signpost. 7 ST 154 410 fenced woodland to your left (west). From the bowling green The footpath emerges at a lane leading 4 ST 168 393 2 ST 183 392. follow the drive, past the from a lay-by on the A39. Follow the Greenway, which passes Continue along the footpath, 6 dog pound, along the tarmac both sides of an old beech hedge, the which follows a stream in parts, lane that leads up to right hand side can be quite muddy - so for about ½ mile until reaching a l l Alfoxton Park, one time lodg- i stick to the left! Go westward through crossroads next to a cottage. H ing of Wordsworth. The path s 6 ST 156 407 Turn right and follow the green d the woods, following the 250m contour n goes straight through the a At the lane turn left (north-west). On l line, until you emerge into the open. lane. At the top is a gate on the d grounds of Alfoxton Park and o reaching the end of the road turn Follow the path until meeting the path left, signposted ‘Greenway’. o out the other side. W right, and very shortly take the first which descends from the iron age turning on the left. This leads to the Dowsbrough Hill fort. car park and bowling green. L e i m b e m o Coleridge Cottage S C t r d e r e o t f l 1 o P t H N. Stowey ree St 1 Km Castle le 5 3 st a Copyright © Quantock Online 4 C www.quantockonline.co.uk Walford’s 2 Nether Stowey gibbet Page 1 Free for personal use. NOT FOR RESALE. This mapping from GPS data - Total length of Coleridge Way 36.5 miles - covered by OS Explorer 22 & OL9 The Coleridge Way 9 - Nether Stowey to Bicknoller - A39 9.6 miles (15.5Km), total ascent 1 748’ (533m) 10 ST 112 418 e n The Windmill Inn, open all day for most o t s e of the holiday season. e l n d a r L 10 a Youth P Walk in front of the pub and take the Hostel first turning on your left. Follow this lane. Go past the crossroads and con- tinue until reaching the track next to Mayfield Cottage, on the left. 8 9 ST 120 424 Alfoxton Park 11 11 ST 109 411 At the foot of Perry combe you leave P Hotel Go through the gate near Mayfield cot- the ‘Greenway’. Follow the permissive 7 tage and follow the path along the edge path signs to West Quantoxhead, leav- of the wood. Drop down into Weacombe ing the Greenway to continue its way up 8 ST 147 414 and follow the track straight ahead Perry Combe. Keep close to the fence From Alfoxton Park follow the until eventually reaching Bicknoller on the right, following the A39. track . Where the track bends combe, close to a disused quarry. Turn go to the right, and then left. right along the lane and head down into Climb the stile into St Audrie’s Forest You will pass the entrance to a Bicknoller, where you will reach the and follow the path until you meet a house on the right. Continue on Community Shop. T-junction. Turn right along a broad, past a couple of cottages. Keep grassy path. Ignore the first gate on the fence on the right and follow 12 ST 110 396 your right to the A39 and follow the the signposts marked ‘Perry’ and The Coleridge Way continues along track until it narrows and drops down the ‘Greenway’. The woodland Dashwoods Lane and crosses the A358. to another gate. Go through the gate gives way to open ground on the Bicknoller is a pretty village and well and turn right, down to the A39 lower slopes of the hills and worth a look round. For the The Bic- crosses the mouth of several knoller Inn and the church turn left, combes. into Gatchells Lane. Continue to the foot of Perry 12 Bicknoller Combe, a total of 2 miles from Copyright © Quantock Online Alfoxton Park. www.quantockonline.co.uk 1 Km Page 2 Free for personal use. NOT FOR RESALE. This mapping from GPS data - Total length of Coleridge Way 36.5 miles - covered by OS Explorer 22 & OL9 The Coleridge Way 14 - Bicknoller to Luxborough - Sampford Brett Bicknoller 13.6 miles (21.9Km), total ascent 2 175’ (663m) 15 12 17 ...cont 16 ST 074 385 On leaving churchyard turn right onto Go straight ahead, along the bridleway 13 14 ST 089 402 road. Almost immediately take foot- that heads SW (ignore one to the At the end of the lane (church on your Railway path on left, next to The Old Rectory. right). On reaching road go straight A358 right), turn left into the main street Go uphill and, on meeting bridleway in ahead, signed ‘Stogumber’. through Sampford Brett. Where road 12 ST 110 396 woods on Birds Hill, turn right (SW). Follow road for ¼ mile, bends to the left go straight on, short- From the community shop walk down After nearly 1 mile you reach a T junc- until road bends to left. ly reaching Manor Farm. Take footpath Dashwoods Lane and carefully cross tion. Take road slightly to the right. Go straight ahead, through 16 on right through farmyard, signed to the A358. Go straight ahead along After about ¼ mile turn right at bridle- a gate and onto ‘Aller Farm’. signed footpath that passes to right of way signed to ‘Chidgley’. a track with red waymark. a house. On reaching end of a paddock Follow footpath along follow the footpath to the right, 18 ST 053 361 Keep your eyes open! 200m right hand side of field. through a small wood. This emerges to Follow bridleway directly across field, along track take footpath on Go through gate on the cross a railway line (not electric!). Take into woods. In woods go left, take right right, over stile in the right and immediately footpath across a field, keeping to hand fork, following marked bridleway hedge. Follow the footpath Monksilver turn left, following the left, into next field. Follow fence line downhill. Near bottom bridleway forks. down into Monksilver along hedge, into the woods. past farm buildings and through gate Take right hand fork marked ‘Roadwa- left hand side of fields. 17 on left onto farm track. Turn right, ter’ down to road (B3190). Once in the woods, which appear more walk down farm track to the road. At extensive than shown on OS map, follow the road, go left. signs to ‘Aller’. 13 ST 096 393 15 ST 078 396 Take first turn on right, signposted to l On reaching Aller farm turn right, 1 Km il Capton & Sampford Brett. Shortly, H s through farm, signed ‘Monksilver’. At rd where the road bends to left, go Bi end of farmyard turn left along bridle- straight on down track marked ‘Cotti- way. After the second field you meet a ford Lane, Sampford Brett’. After ¼ 17 ST 074 374 post showing ‘footpath’, straight ahead, mile take footpath on right, next to a 18 At road turn right into Monksilver. At and ‘permissive bridleway’ to the right. 19 pylon, signed ‘Sampford Brett’ . Cross the building on left, just before Notley (they end up in the same place). Turn the field and continue following the Arms pub, turn left to church. Go right, uphill along bridleway. At the end Copyright © Quantock Online path, which eventually becomes a lane, through churchyard. of this field turn left (south), following www.quantockonline.co.uk into Sampford Brett. Cont... bridleway to a small wood. Page 3 Free for personal use. NOT FOR RESALE. This mapping from GPS data - Total length of Coleridge Way 36.5 miles - covered by OS Explorer 22 & OL9 22 SS 997 370 21 ST 011 373 Go through gate by farm buildings - At the upper edge of the wood the The Coleridge Way yellow waymark and gate engraved ‘pub- track reaches two gates.
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