A Wellow walk

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"A green valley walk, where Cotswold melds into Mendip"
Walk directions

Head out past the church, under a viaduct, and up to pass Wellow Trekking. In another 110yds (100m) a narrow, rutted track starts just above the road. Where it becomes unclear, keep going, to the hedge ahead. The track continues above it, and runs down through a wood. At its foot fork left on the older track, which turns up left to pass under a railway bridge. (Note: no access to this track from the railbed cycleway from Wellow.)

Just before Lower Twinhoe Farm turn left into a signposted green track. At the hilltop the track fades into a field. Bear right, before hilltop houses, to a small gate and then a larger one. Turn right along the farm's driveway to a lane. Turn left, then down right at Middle Twinhoe Farm, and bend left towards Upper Twinhoe. Just before this farm a signed track descends to the right.

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  Terrain  - Byways, stream sides and some field paths, several stiles
  Landscape  - Grassy hillsides and valleys
  Dog friendliness  - Mostly pasture
  Parking  - Street parking in village centre, or large car park in Station Road
  Toilets en route  - None on route
About the walk
When you walk through this quiet corner of Somerset, it certainly doesn't strike you as an industrial landscape. As you climb out of the Wellow Valley you might notice some odd conical hills. And then, at Combe Hay, with its lovely medieval manor house, there is some very peculiar 18th-century...
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Somerset remains rural and unspoiled, and ever popular areas to visit are the limestone and red sandstone Mendip Hills rising to over 1,000 feet, and by complete contrast, to the south and southwest, the flat landscape of the Somerset Levels. Another popular spot, the Quantocks, once the haunt of poets Coleridge and Wordsworth, are noted for their gentle slopes, heather-covered moorland expanses and red deer.
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A Wellow walk

Recommended by
Our view
"A green valley walk, where Cotswold melds into Mendip"
Dog friendly
Location
Nearest postcode:
Additional information
  Terrain - Byways, stream sides and some field paths, several stiles
  Landscape - Grassy hillsides and valleys
  Dog friendliness - Mostly pasture
  Parking - Street parking in village centre, or large car park in Station Road
  Toilets en route - None on route
About the walk
When you walk through this quiet corner of Somerset, it certainly doesn't strike you as an industrial landscape. As you climb out of the Wellow Valley you might notice some odd conical hills. And then, at Combe Hay, with its lovely medieval manor house, there is some very peculiar 18th-century...
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About the area
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Somerset
Somerset remains rural and unspoiled, and ever popular areas to visit are the limestone and red sandstone Mendip Hills rising to over 1,000 feet, and by complete contrast, to the south and southwest, the flat landscape of the Somerset Levels. Another popular spot, the Quantocks, once the haunt of poets Coleridge and Wordsworth, are noted for their gentle slopes, heather-covered moorland expanses and red deer.