Start: The Woodborough Inn, 2 Sandford Rd, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1HD
Tel: 01934 844167 Email: bookings@woodborough-inn.co.uk
(S/E) From the front door of The Woodborough Inn, cross the road and walk down Woodborough Road between the Co-op on the left and Farrons Estate Agents on the right. Just before the bridge, turn right past the public toilets onto the Strawberry Trail; then turn left. Cross the bridge and follow the trail for a quarter of a mile. Pass under a road bridge (The Lynch). Continue along the Trail, passing the Recreation Ground on your left.
(1) A quarter-mile beyond the recreation ground, a track (Fullers Lane) crosses the Strawberry Line between two barriers; turn right off the trail here. Turn immediately left along another hedged track, Yadley Lane. After a short distance, turn right at a junction of paths, continuing along the main track (now Eastwell Lane). After a little under half a mile, pass the vigorous East Well spring in a ferny dell on your right, bearing left and shortly afterwards passing the entrance of a house called Coombe Valley, to emerge among the buildings of the old part of Winscombe village.
(2) Turn left along the road up the hill. Turn right along Church Lane, signposted to the Parish Church of St James. After visiting the church, follow Church Lane downhill to a road junction in the middle of the village.
(3) Follow a concrete track through a farmyard opposite, passing between farm buildings and then following a line of poplar trees. In the corner of the field cross a footbridge over a stream. Cross the next field to a ford over a stream in the hedge on your left (bypassable via a footbridge at the far end). Turn left (north) parallel to the left-hand edge of the field to a stile and kissing gate. Cross the next field (ignoring a gate opposite) and follow the right-hand hedge to a slab stile in the corner, continuing in the same direction with young trees on your right. After another slab stile a narrow path leads over a small stream and between gardens out to the road.
(4) Turn right and walk along the road (The Lynch) for 300 yards, looking out for a footpath sign on a telegraph pole indicating a path on the left between two houses. Turn into the path.
(5) Beyond the houses, cross a field to a slab stile and kissing gate leading into an open space newly planted with trees. At the end of this area, turn right up steps onto the Strawberry Line. Turn left over the bridge, then turn right off the trail past the toilets. Turn left back to The Woodborough Inn.
