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''The Compton Inn' Court Hill, Compton Dando (01761 490 321) 490 (01761 Dando Compton Hill, Court Inn' Compton ''The

'The Rising Sun' Church Street, Pensford (01761 490402) (01761 Pensford Street, Church Sun' Rising 'The

'George & Dragon' High Street, Pensford (01761 490516) Keynsham - High Street, car park behind the post office post the behind park car Street, High - Keynsham 490516) (01761 Pensford Street, High Dragon' & 'George

PUBLIC TOILETS PUBLIC ROUTE EN HOUSES PUBLIC

calling National Rail Enquiries on 08457 484950 for trains or calling the Traveline number below. number Traveline the calling or trains for 484950 08457 on Enquiries Rail National calling

We recommend you check your journey times by logging on to www.firstgroup.com for buses; buses; for www.firstgroup.com to on logging by times journey your check you recommend We

The same service runs infrequently on Sundays and Bank Holidays. Bank and Sundays on infrequently runs service same The

to Bristol Temple Meads operate from Keynsham Station hourly on Mondays to Saturdays. Saturdays. to Mondays on hourly Station Keynsham from operate Meads Temple Bristol to Trains

No service on Sunday and Bank Holidays. Bank and Sunday on service No

Causeway, Parkway Station, Downend, Staple Hill, Kindgswood and Longwell Green. Operates hourly. hourly. Operates Green. Longwell and Kindgswood Hill, Staple Downend, Station, Parkway Causeway,

, Mondays to Saturdays from Cribbs Cribbs from Saturdays to Mondays , intervals. hourly half at route same the along Service 318 to Keynsham to 318 Service

bus runs every 30 minutes to Bristol City Centre via Brislington. On Sundays and Bank Holidays service 339 operates operates 339 service Holidays Bank and Sundays On Brislington. via Centre City Bristol to minutes 30 every runs bus

to Bristol can be caught on the High Street opposite to Keynsham Church. On Mondays to Saturdays the 349 349 the Saturdays to Mondays On Church. Keynsham to opposite Street High the on caught be can Bristol to Buses

Keynsham to Bristol by Bus and Rail and Bus by Bristol to Keynsham

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Please get off the bus in Pensford at the stop immediately next to River Chew bridge, ask the driver if you are unsure of of unsure are you if driver the ask bridge, Chew River to next immediately stop the at Pensford in bus the off get Please

via Whitchurch. The 976 service operates along the same route on Sundays and Bank Holidays, at hourly intervals. intervals. hourly at Holidays, Bank and Sundays on route same the along operates service 976 The Whitchurch. via

The 376 - Bristol to Pensford runs Mondays to Saturdays every 30 minutes, from Bristol Bus Station and Temple Meads Meads Temple and Station Bus Bristol from minutes, 30 every Saturdays to Mondays runs Pensford to Bristol - 376 The

bus by Pensford to Bristol

Bristol from Keynsham. It can of course be walked in either direction. either in walked be course of can It Keynsham. from Bristol

The route of the walk is described from Pensford to Keynsham because of the frequent public transport services back to to back services transport public frequent the of because Keynsham to Pensford from described is walk the of route The PUBLIC TRANSPORT INFORMATION TRANSPORT PUBLIC

1 Distance: 5 /2 miles 1 Walking Time: 2 /2 hours 11 Pensford to Keynsham GRADE: Easy/Moderate 3

This attractive and peaceful waterside walk starts at Pensford and Maps: follows the meandering course of the River Chew through the small Explorer 155 Bristol & Bath settlements of Woollard, Compton Dando and Chewton Keynsham. 1:25 000 scale The walk terminates at Keynsham, shortly before the Chew meets its confluence with the River Avon. The walk covers a section of the Two Landranger 172 Bristol & Bath Rivers Way, which is a long distance route following the course of the 1:50 000 scale River Yeo and Chew between Congresbury and Keynsham. The walk also forms part of the Community Forest Path, a 45 mile path encircling Grid Ref: (Start of walk) ST 618 637 the green spaces of Bristol and its surrounding countryside. walks A4•1-13 pages 2/15/05 2:09 PM Page 22

PLACES AND FEATURES OF INTEREST

Pensford There are several pubs and cafes A4175 In 1540 John Leyland described Pensford as a 'market townlet 7 to be found in Keynsham. Buses occupied with clothing'. Indeed, much of the town was occupied back to Bristol can be caught at with the weaving industry after weavers set up looms to avoid H i A4(T) Keynsham Church on the High g the restrictions of the City Guilds. Later on, the area developed h Street. Regular services also S using the profits of the wool trade and coal trade. Most of the t operate from Keynsham buildings consist of red/brown pennant sandstone, as does the Railway Station. most striking feature of Pensford, the 1873 Railway Viaduct. Keynsham Woollard Woollard was the site of a medieval bridge until the great flood of 1968, when it was irreparably damaged. The economy of Woollard once relied on the waterpower of the Chew to power Albert Mill used to be a dyewood mill. 6 a mill for grist (corn for grinding or malt crushed for brewing). Note the water-wheel and mill stones.

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Keynsham s r e v Situated between Bristol and Bath, the town originates from i Roman times where it was noted as a 'trejectus', meaning ford. R o Keynsham derived from 'St Keynes Home', Keynes being the w T daughter of Brynceiniog, a Welsh prince. However, the real origin of the name is thought to be 'Caegineshamme', meaning 'Caegins meadow' - hence the present day pronunciation. In later times, Chewton like much of this region, Keynsham's economy thrived on the Keynsham basis of the brass industry, the mills being powered by the waters River Chew at Compton Dando of the River Chew. A local legend states that the rhythmic pounding of the hammers from a Keynsham brass battery was the inspiration for the Hallelujah Chorus of Handel's Messiah. B3116 This is the subject of an ongoing dispute with residents of neighbouring Saltford, who claim that it was the hammers of their brass workings.

Woollard is a former 18th Compton Dando Church w he century industrial village. C r e v Park Copse i Railway Viaduct at Pensford R Publow Church has a 15th century tower in the perpendicular style. Catsley Compton Wood Dando 5 A37 4 Publow e Woollard n 3 a Compton Green wL o l b The church at Compton Dando Pu is dedicated to St Mary. The 2 name Compton is thought to From the bus stop turn into the High Street 1 mean 'enclosed valley' whilst Pensford following the sign to Publow Church and bear H Dando may have derived from i left along Publow Lane. Immediately after the g a family name. hS new houses on the right go through the kissing t gate and diagonally across the field. You have now joined the Two Rivers Way/Community Key Forest Path, which is waymarked along the public house entire route to Keynsham. Before starting the walk it is worth having a walk route look at the Pensford Viaduct with its sixteen other paths N arches. This is a magnificent relic of the Bristol roads and North Somerset Railway. The railway, field boundary built between 1863 and 1873 linked Bristol 0 500m 1km to the earlier Frome to Radstock line of the urban area Great Western Railway. © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. woodland Bristol City Council. 100023406. 2005