With the church on your left and the bridge on your right, head down Silver Street for 30yds (27m) to a small car park in Coombe Street. The old packhorse bridge over the River Brue leads into Lower Backway. Turn left for 350yds (320m), then take a path between railed fences to a footbridge. Turn right along the river to A359.

Turn right over Leggs Bridge and right again into the end of High Street, but at once turn off uphill on to a walled path called Mill Dam. The path becomes a narrow lane; in 150yds (140m) turn left along byway track signed to Creech Hill Lane. Just after a footbridge fork left: the hedged path is fairly steep and muddy. At the top of the combe it becomes a farm track. This bends left (the short-cut track on the right isn't a right of way) and reaches a road.

Turn right for a few steps, then right again (marked Wyke Road), and after 220yds (200m) turn right past farm buildings to an uphill track, Creech Hill Lane. This becomes a hedged tunnel, then emerges at Creech Hill Farm. Once past the cupressus hedge that hides the slurry pit, you'll have a fine view over Bruton. Pass along the front of the farm and out to the B3081.

Head up the road to the first field gate opposite, with bridleway signpost. Turn sharp right to pass below a hedge. The small path follows the rim of the combe hollow. Opposite Green's Combe Farm, slant down left to just below a stream junction – strips of trees mark the streams. Cross the stream and bear left to a gate on to the farm's driveway track.

Turn right, away from the farm, for 220yds (200m) until the track bends right. Here keep ahead through a field gate with a waymarker, onto a green track. After 200yds (183m), at the foot of a former hedge, turn downhill, to the left of a row of hazels, to a gate. Pass through a small wood to a gate and track. When this emerges into open field keep ahead, below a fence, to join the B3081. Turn left, uphill, to the entrance to Coombe Farm.

Ignoring a stile on the left, go down the driveway for barely a dozen paces before turning off left, and at once forking left again on to a wide path under sycamore trees. The path rises gently, with a bank on its left. On reaching a clearing, keep to the left edge to find a descending path that becomes St Catherine's Hill. Weavers' cottages are on the right as the street descends steeply into Bruton. Turn left along the High Street. At its end turn right down Patwell Street to Church Bridge.