Bath Ramblings

Corsham - 29.8.21

A five mile walk starting and ending in the village of Corsham. Peacocks roam freely from their home at Corsham Court. A traditional English countryside scene. The lake at Corsham Park. The sham ruin. Route Details 🗺️ View Route on Walkmeter (opens in a new tab) The walkmeter link map is a little skewed as I forgot to turn the GPS off as I started driving home! Oops. Just ignore anything after the 5 mile marker.

Posted by Bath Ramblings on Sunday, September 5, 2021
Last Modified on Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Widcombe & Combe Down - 11.07.21

Ramblers group walks have started up again. We’ll be leading this walk in a couple of weeks (all details on the Bath Ramblers website) It’s a lovely route with great views of Bath city from Alexandra Park and the Skyline trail. At the moment the fields are full of wildflowers and we even caught a glimpse of the llamas near Prior Park. (they weren’t cooperating for photos sadly) Route Details 🗺️ View Route on Walkmeter (opens in a new tab)

Posted by Bath Ramblings on Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Last Modified on Sunday, September 5, 2021

Bath Skyline and Smallcombe - 6.12.20

A great little walk for any visitors to Bath as it starts and ends at the bus/train station. There are a couple of steep hills which will reward you with some terrific views of the city. 3.6 miles through town and country Alexandra Park in Widcombe provides some of the best aerial views of Bath, even on a hazy morning. It doesn’t take long before you are out in the countryside

Posted by Bath Ramblings on Monday, December 14, 2020
Last Modified on Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Bradford-on-Avon Walking Wheel (spokes 7 and 8) - 15.7.20

Exploring the wheel again .. Although we are still not organising group walks in this area it’s a good time to investigate potential new routes. Sometimes these recces don’t go quite to plan. We intended to walk up spoke 8, cut across using a footpath on the OS map then travel back via spoke 7. We went wrong somewhere around mile 3.5 so our intended circular walk ended up as a squiggly figure of 8.

Posted by Bath Ramblings on Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Last Modified on Monday, December 14, 2020

Browne's Folly - 5.7.20

This is one of our most familiar walks. It’s become a tradition to lead this route as the first one of the year with Bath Ramblers (you can see details in previous posts here, here and here. I’m pretty sure we did it in 2019 too but strangely there’s no write-up.) We are used to seeing it bare and chilly so it had quite a different feel overgrown with July foliage.

Posted by Bath Ramblings on Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Last Modified on Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Bradford-on-Avon Walking Wheel (Inner Circle) – 23.6.20

Well it’s been a while for obvious reasons but we finally got out for a walk. This is part of the Bradford-on-Avon walking wheel which consists of an inner and outer circle connected by 8 radiating ‘spokes’. The inner circle is 5.7 miles and takes in the outskirts of BoA town. You can buy a laminated map of the whole wheel at BoA library or tourist information. The routes are marked very well by colour co-ordinated markers on lamp-posts etc.

Posted by Bath Ramblings on Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Last Modified on Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Upper Swainswick - 8.3.20

A lovely spring day for a walk which involved lots of hills giving clear and far reaching views. The walk started from Upper Swainswick and took in much of the Upper Lambrook Valley. The village of Woolley has an interesting church (Grade 1 listed) built by John Wood the Younger with an unusual cupola as shown in the photo below. After a few more hills and fields it was across the A46 where there were good views of St Catherine’s Valley and Monkswood reservoir.

Posted by Bath Ramblings on Monday, March 9, 2020
Last Modified on Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Browne's Folly - 5.1.2020

Happy New Year from Bath Ramblings Walking up the hill towards Browne’s Folly Sunshine breaking through over the hills A new and exciting feature of this walk is the lovely friendly goats A very handsome pheasant A flock of unusual black horned sheep Don’t take our word for it but apparently this fungus makes a lovely soup the lightning struck tree has deteriorated since we saw it in 2018 - compare here find out more about the nature reserve here Route Details 🗺️ View Route on Walkmeter (opens in a new tab) This walk starts and ends at Bathford Church

Posted by Bath Ramblings on Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Last Modified on Monday, March 9, 2020

Winsley - 10.11.19

This walk started from Hartley Farm and went through Turleigh then down to the canal at Avoncliffe. The canal was a really peaceful spot for a brief coffee break. Then it was uphill through Murhill to Winsley and back to Hartley Farm via Conkwell. It was a lovely day of welcome autumn sunshine and the trees were in their full autumn colour against the clear blue sky. Some of this walk followed the Bradford-on-Avon Walking Wheel

Posted by Bath Ramblings on Friday, November 15, 2019
Last Modified on Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Larkhall - 4.8.19

This walk started from Larkhall Sports Club and went round the edge of Charlcombe before heading up to Woolley with its attractive church and interesting graveyard and then on to Upper Swainswick. The return was via a footpath alongside but above the A46 and back through Lower Swainswick. There were several steep climbs which gave excellent views of the city and surrounding countryside. Walking up the hill away from Bath

Posted by Bath Ramblings on Saturday, August 10, 2019
Last Modified on Friday, November 15, 2019