DETAIL 6 4 From the stables, the track bends DETAIL 1 DETAIL 2 7 Go straight on across the middle 15 The Saxon BATH left and then right through 4 of the field, down the slope to the the golf course. Stay on the tarmac gate in the left corner of the field. 2.5km approx road. When you reach a T-junction, Go over the stile. Continue straight Kings Way 14 turn right and just after a sign to NORTH on aiming for the left-hand corner NORTH the right marked ‘The Village’, is a of the field. Go over the stile 13.6 Miles | 22 km Strenuous 13 footpath sign to the left through onto the road. Go straight across This linear walk links two Anglo-Saxon kings - King Eadred, King of NORTH the golf course. You are now the road and straight through the (AD 946-died in 955AD) and his nephew King Edgar, King of England joining The Macmillan Way. Walk 7 zigzag gate onto the stud farm. (AD 959-975) crowned in Bath Abbey in 973AD. The route links Mendip straight, as pointed by the finger You are requested by the owners Way East with the Cotswold Way and includes a section of the Two post, to the right of green 2 and to keep dogs on leads, not to feed Tunnels as well as magnificent views over the city of Bath. the left of the lake, to the stile in the horses, or enter the paddocks. The walk can also be tackled in two halves with the aid of public transport the boundary fence. There is a bar Turn left. After 200m, bear right up 6 links to Frome/Bath from Norton St Philip or Hinton Charterhouse. DETAIL 5 and restaurant open to the public a wide green fenced path towards Route written by Leslie Stather and checked by Michael Plaskitt. at Orchardleigh Golf Course Club the farm buildings. Keep the Please make sure you have the relevant OS map before starting this walk. House. Watch out for flying golf farmhouse on your right. Cross two The Hope & balls and please keep dogs on 3 drives. Keep straight on aiming for START Anchor a wooden boundary fence. 12 leads. Cross the stile and bear right 1 Starting from the Cheese and Go through a kissing gate. Stop, across the field aiming for 2 o’clock. Turn left at boundary fence Grain (the end of the Mendip Way look and listen and beware of Keeping the wood on the right, following Mendip Ring signs. After 11 East), walk north-west, towards trains, before crossing the railway cross the field and go through the 5 200m, at the end, go through a the canoe club on the river Frome. track. Go through a kissing gate, gate. Lulllington church is now in gate, turn right along path around Take the footpath that follows cross the pasture, through another view. Follow the farm track which the edge of a field. Go through a kissing gate onto Coalash Lane. the river under the railway bridge DETAIL 4 joins a tarmac road right into zigzag, and over a footbridge. The keeping the river on your left. Walk Lullington Village. After quarter of Orchardleigh footpath goes straight through the past the pump track and children’s 3 Cross the road and take the a mile you reach the village pump 2 Golf Course middle of a large field. You will find play park on your right. When you footpath straight ahead, over the 10 and green and old school. Turn left a stile onto the road in the top reach Welshmill Lane, turn left stile, crossing the field. Go over to pass the church on your left. left corner. The route meets the over the bridge and immediately another stile into Jeffries Lane. Turn Cheese & Mendip Way here. Grain 4 right following the footpath sign right, passing Jeffries Mill on your 5 Follow the footpath sign through 1 directing you along the “Riverside left. At the end of Jeffries Lane, Court Farm farmyard. The footpath 8 Turn right along the road. 50 Path to Low Water”. The river is follow the footpath sign at the has been diverted slightly here yards after Southfield Farm, there now on your right. The tarmac gate, go over a stile and go straight DETAIL 3 and your OS map may be out of is a gap in the hedge with a stile path takes you through a meadow ahead. After 100m take the right date. Do not go through the gates on the left. Go through the stile, towards houses. Go along the front fork up the slope, go over a stile, in front into the field but turn keeping the hedge on your right. following the hedge on the right- NORTON of the houses. The path turns left ST PHILIP left and after the long building After 100m turn right and go over 9 and then right signposted ‘Spring hand side. At the corner of the turn right into the field. Walk to 6 Go straight ahead and take the a stile on the right. Turn left and Gardens’. This section of the walk is field go over the stile continuing the stile and little footbridge and gate on your left into the farmyard. keep the hedge on your left. Go wheelchair friendly. straight ahead and following the 8 another stile. You are now back on Take the track to the left of the through a gap in the hedge at hedge on the right-hand side. the original path. Having crossed stone building and towards the the left corner of the field. Go 2 Go through the gate and through the bridge, go over the stile, walk brick building. Bearing right, you diagonally left across the next Go through the gate. Continue Whatcombe fields. When entering DETAIL 2 over the middle of the field and can now see Laverton Church in field past a pond on your right to the third field the footpath leaves straight up the hill heading towards cross another stile. Walk around front of you. Cross the track to a gate at the bottom left corner. the tarmac path. Go straight on, the woodland. Go over the stile at the right edge of the field. Halfway a two-bar wooden structure in Go through the gate onto a gravel the entrance to the woodland and head for the telegraph pole and 7 around this large field, just after a gap in the churchyard wall in track. Turn right, passing the Old kissing gate straight ahead. continue up to the top of the hill. a 90 degree right hand corner, go front. The top bar can be pulled Vicarage on your right, the school You are now in the Orchardleigh through the gap in the hedge to to one side to allow easy passage on your left and Norton St Philip 6 Go through the kissing gate, with Estate. There is wire fencing on enter into the next field on the into the churchyard. Walk through Church on your right. Key More over >>> a view of Selwood Manor in the the right - follow the path clearly right and follow the same hedge the churchyard to the church distance. Cross the field and go identified. Orchardleigh House is but keeping the hedge on the left. front gate. Opposite the church through the imitation stone stile. soon in view to the right. There 5 When you start to enter the wood gate, cross the road and there is Church Take Care Follow the path straight ahead with are two gates to cross the active look out for the footpath sign, a footpath sign. Go over the stile trees to your left followed by a wall airfield runway. Keep a look out for signposting you left. Within 3m and cross the field diagonally at 1 Public Toilet 27 Route Marker and Whatcombe Farm on your left. aircraft, dogs need to be on leads. turn right and follow the footpath o’clock to the gate in the corner DETAIL 1 The footpath becomes the track, 4 through the woods. Go over the of the field down the slope. Go Go through a kissing gate passing keep straight on down a slope. stile, through the field keeping Park through the gate, over the stone Water Refill Walking Route the Whatcombe Wall canal Woods on your right. After 200m footbridge and across the corner embankment (part of the Dorset There are stables straight ahead, of the field. Go through the kissing go over the stile on the left, across Refreshments Pub and canal that was never Orchardleigh church is on an island the stream, then quickly over gate onto the road. Turn right, completed) on your left and poplar off to the right with a lake behind 3 another stile. Go straight across walking past the terrace of houses trees to your right. it. The church is well worth a visit the farm track passing beside the on the right. On your left, go over as it is one of the most popular farm gate. the stile into the field. wedding venues in the area. If visiting the church then retrace 2

your steps. 1 Map design by Fancy Studio www.fancystudio.co.uk FROME 9 At the end of Vicarage Lane, DETAIL 3 DETAIL 4 Go through the kissing gate and a field at 2 o’clock to the right of Turn right along Calton Walk. After cross the A366 road (Church Street) NORTH NORTH cross the next field. Go through the ridge. Go through a kissing gate 200m through the houses, turn and turn right, and walk along the another kissing gate and through with the Wellow Brook on your left down steps to the road. Cross raised pavement. After 250m, turn that field at 1 o’clock. Through a right. Go straight across under the the road and take the pavement left down The Barton, passing near kissing gate, Hinton Priory (private) viaduct onto Dunkerton Road. footpath bearing left down the to the Tudor Dovecote on the left. Hinton is on your right. slope, continue straight on. At Charterhouse Bear right after the sign to the Norton 10 Go across the field to stile, cross 12 Turn right along the road the bottom of the hill, bear right, Dovecote along Lyde Green and up St Philip the stile and walk straight over the towards Midford. After 200m keeping the railings and the busy Chevers Lane. Cross straight across field towards some farm buildings. you will meet the B3110 again. road on your left. After 50m, go 9 the B3110, over the stile, aim at ten Go through kissing gate keeping Turn left and immediately right through the subway to Bath city o’clock, to a stile to the right of a the copse on your left. Go over up Old Midford Road for 10m. centre, turn left. As you come out house across the field. Keeping the two stiles which are very close Then immediately right into the of the subway go under the railway fence on your left, after 50m cross to each other, through a kissing Hope and Anchor pub car park. In bridge, go right over the footbridge the stile onto the road. Turn right gate, follow the path to a quiet the car park follow blue signs to over the River Avon, keeping and follow the road for quarter of 8 road. Turn left and walk through National Cycle Route 24 towards the Bus Station on your right, go a mile. Just after the farm track on Pipehouse hamlet. Bath, passing old Midford Station straight ahead, up pedestrianised the left, turn left through a metal on the left and in time the Tucking Southgate Street. This becomes kissing gate. Go diagonally across 11 When the tarmac road becomes Mill Viaduct. The Combe Down Stall Street. Walk past the Pump the field to a gate. Go through a rough track take the ‘Byway’ sign Tunnel is 1672m long and plays Rooms on your right, walk under the gate, over a footbridge, and straight ahead along the track, you classical music as you walk/ the colonnade and Bath Abbey and through another gate. Walk straight through a tunnel of trees. There cycle through it! At the end of the its amazing West front is straight

through the middle of the field, are countryside views to the left tunnel continue on Route 24. Do ahead of you. This is where King

Strenuous 13.6 Miles | 22 km 22 | Miles 13.6 through the gate opposite keeping and a sharp 90 degree bend after not enter the second tunnel. After Edgar the Peaceful, King of England

the hedge on your right. After approximately 1 mile. There are 300m and before a bridge and the was crowned in 973AD. Kings Way Kings 50m walk through a large gap in views of Midford Castle to the start of houses on the right take

the hedge on your right into the right. The track eventually goes a small track off the cycle track at 15 Bath Abbey is the start of the

next field. Go diagonally across the Norton steeply downhill to the B3110. Cross 11 o’clock downwards, with a wire Cotswold Way, where you can The Saxon The St Philip field to a kissing gate. Go through it and turn left and after 100m turn fence on the left through a wood. begin to walk to Chipping Camden. the wood. As you come out of right along a footpath, taking a After 100m turn right through Or you can catch the D2 or X67 bus 7 9 the wood turn left. Go straight on footbridge over the Wellow Brook. the gate under the viaduct. Turn or the train back to Frome. and follow the footpath through a Go through a kissing gate, through right before a house called The FINISH copse. Go over a stile, keep walking Pines and continue along the lane straight ahead, go through a kissing DETAIL 5 DETAIL 6 keeping houses to your left. Keep gate onto Green Lane. NORTH NORTH on this tarmac lane until you reach If you’d like to save the rest of Monkton Combe Lyncombe Vale. the walk for another day, you can catch the D2 or X67 bus back to 13 Go past The Paragon School Frome from Hinton Charterhouse. 15 on your right. At the T-junction To do so, turn left along Green BATH take the road up leftwards which Respect Lane into the village for the bus or is Lyncombe Vale Road. At the to refuel at the Rose & Crown, The next T-junction with Greenway Consider the local community and other Stag Inn or the village shop. Lane, turn left along Greenway people enjoying the outdoors. Lane. After 50m turn right through Leave gates and property as you find them. 10 If you’ve visited the village, the gate and go straight across Follow paths where crops are growing. retrace your steps to the previous Lyncombe Hill Common. At the far Use gates or stiles if possible. point on Green Lane. Walk across edge of the common, go through 14 Avoid climbing walls or fences. Don’t disturb Green Lane. There are cottages on the kissing gate onto a path, turn ruins or historic sites. Don’t interfere with the right. Take the lane straight The Hope & left going up the hill, passing machinery or livestock. Anchor ahead, passing the church on MIDFORD Lyncombe Hill Farm Allotments on the left. Take the second gate 12 your left. Enter Alexandra Park with Protect into the churchyard marked magnificent views of Bath to your 13 Protect plants and animals and take your litter ‘footpath’. Continue in the same right and make your way to the home. Be careful not to drop matches or direction through the churchyard viewpoint where there are seats smouldering cigarettes. in an easterly direction. Leave the and one of the most beautiful Keep your dog under effective control so that churchyard via a kissing gate across views of the city. it does not disturb or scare farm animals or 11 wildlife. the field, with Hinton House on the left. Walk across parkland down the 14 Keep the view/railings to your Always clean up after your dog and get rid of slope to Branch Road. right and keep walking down a the mess responsibly. slope. At the end of the railings, Go through the kissing gate, cross turn right down the steep steps Enjoy this very busy 60mph road with through the wood. Turn right Be safe, plan ahead and follow any signs. care, and through another kissing as you come out of the wood, gate. Walk over the field at 1 o’clock. continue down the last few steps.