Bath Ramblings

Box Today’s walk started in Box at the Box Rock Circus - a funny little mini stonehenge. It was a really gorgeous day for walking, even though it’s still cold enough to have to scrape ice off the car in the morning there are signs of spring all over the place, snowdrops, wild primroses even a very optimistic daffodil: The walk is nice and varied - some bits through fields, some through woods.

This is the route of the Saturday morning Bath Skyline parkrun but it’s also really popular with walkers. Like most of the Skyline routes it has some great views of the city below. It meanders through ‘Fairy Wood’ and ‘Long Wood’ and can get pretty muddy during wet weather. There is one set of steep stone steps but other than that it’s fairly flat and easy. The route is a pretty accurate 5k having been measured for parkrun.

This is a really varied route - through woods, bridle paths, country lanes. It’s quite hilly so there would usually be good views but today the weather was dank and foggy so we couldn’t see very far. For the first half mile we were joined by a sweet little black kitten who seemed to think we were headed somewhere interesting. There wasn’t much else in the way of ‘wild’ life - probably all sheltering from the cold.

This is a charity walk organised by Julian House. The complete route is a whole day affair but you can choose to do just one or more smaller sections of it. There are some amazing views, especially from the top of Little Solsbury Hill and as the walk usually happens in September it is an excellent opportunity to do some foraging - blackberries and sloes are abundant along the way.