7k Timsbury Specs

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 7.70 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 2h 25 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 83 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 81 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 158 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 107 m
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Description

Start the plot by indicating the starting point. If you know the exact car parking situation, please explain how to park.
If we can access the starting point with public transports, please explain the lines to use and share any useful informations.

(S) From here, describe the instructions to follow from the starting point.

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The plot has to end by the location where the walk finishes. If it is a loop please write (S/E) at the end of the description. If it is a one way route write (E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 115 m - Start near 17 Rotcombe Vale, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset BS39 6JZ, UK
  2. 2 : km 0 - alt. 115 m - Head south on Rotcombe Vale
  3. 3 : km 0.04 - alt. 117 m - Turn right to stay on Rotcombe Vale
  4. 4 : km 0.09 - alt. 115 m - Turn right onto Rotcombe Ln
  5. 5 : km 0.61 - alt. 125 m - Head northeast toward Hayeswood Rd/B3115
  6. 6 : km 0.98 - alt. 155 m - Turn right onto Hayeswood Rd/B3115
  7. 7 : km 1.47 - alt. 155 m - Head southeast on Hayeswood Rd/B3115 toward Priors Hill
  8. 8 : km 2.01 - alt. 157 m - Head south on Priors Hill
  9. 9 : km 2.4 - alt. 121 m - Turn right
  10. 10 : km 2.41 - alt. 120 m - Head east toward Priors Hill
  11. 11 : km 2.41 - alt. 121 m - Turn right onto Priors Hill
  12. 12 : km 2.74 - alt. 109 m - Head southeast on Priors Hill toward Loves Hill
  13. 13 : km 2.74 - alt. 110 m - Turn left onto Loves Hill
  14. 14 : km 3.21 - alt. 138 m - Head east on Loves Hill toward Southlands Dr
  15. 15 : km 3.31 - alt. 139 m - Continue onto South Rd
  16. 16 : km 3.6 - alt. 146 m - Head west on South Rd toward Church Hill
  17. 17 : km 3.6 - alt. 146 m - Turn right onto Church Hill
  18. 18 : km 3.68 - alt. 153 m - Continue onto The Avenue
  19. 19 : km 3.89 - alt. 152 m - Head north on The Avenue toward North Rd/B3115
  20. 20 : km 4.05 - alt. 149 m - Head west on Hayeswood Rd/B3115 toward Priors Hill
  21. 21 : km 4.57 - alt. 156 m - Head west on Hayeswood Rd/B3115 toward Priors Hill
  22. 22 : km 5.37 - alt. 155 m - Head west on Hayeswood Rd/B3115
  23. 23 : km 6.01 - alt. 152 m - Head northwest on Hayeswood Rd/B3115 toward New Rd/A39
  24. 24 : km 6.42 - alt. 155 m - Turn left onto New Rd/A39
  25. 25 : km 6.42 - alt. 155 m - Head south on New Rd/A39 toward Scumbrum Ln
  26. 26 : km 7.39 - alt. 128 m - Head northeast on Sixpence toward Parklands
  27. 27 : km 7.48 - alt. 120 m - Slight right onto Parklands
  28. 28 : km 7.58 - alt. 117 m - Head northeast on Rotcombe Ln toward Rotcombe Vale
  29. 29 : km 7.61 - alt. 115 m - Turn right onto Rotcombe Vale
  30. 30 : km 7.66 - alt. 117 m - Turn left to stay on Rotcombe Vale
  31. S/E : km 7.7 - alt. 116 m

Practical information

Always stay careful and alert while following a route. Visorando and the author of this walk cannot be held responsible in the event of an accident during this route.

Other walks in the area

Walking From Stanton Prior via Burnett, Compton Dando and Marksbury.

Walker
↔12.80 km ↗+159 m ↘-155 m ◔4h 05 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Marksbury (Bath and North East Somerset)

Reasonably lengthy walk of nearly 8 miles, to test your navigation skills, but offering lovely open views of the Somerset countryside.

Walking Along River Chew, Pensford and Hunstrete Lake from Compton Dando

Walker
Along River Chew, Pensford and Hunstrete Lake from Compton Dando
↔13.18 km ↗+179 m ↘-179 m ◔4h 15 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Compton Dando (Bath and North East Somerset)

This circular walk explores paths around Compton Dando using sections of Two Rivers Way and Three Peaks Walk. You will walk along River Chew, also go across Lord's and Common Woods by Hunstrete Lake.

Walking Cameley and Hinton Blewett from Litton

Walker
Cameley and Hinton Blewett from Litton
↔9.06 km ↗+54 m ↘-63 m ◔2h 45 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Litton (Somerset)

This Somerset walk takes you through unspoilt countryside sheletered beneath the slopes of the Mendip Hills. The route includes tracks, footpaths and quiet country lanes.

Walking Harptree Combe, Niver North Top and River Chew from West Harptree

Walker
Harptree Combe, Niver North Top and River Chew from West Harptree
↔11.06 km ↗+195 m ↘-192 m ◔3h 45 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from West Harptree (Bath and North East Somerset)

This circular walk uses well know ways including Monarch's Way, Mendip Trail or Limestone Link and provides a good way to discover wild Harptree Combe and paths in farmland with great views to Chew Valley Lake

Walking Keynsham to Bath on the south side of the Avon

Walker
↔17.89 km ↗+116 m ↘-111 m ◔5h 25 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Keynsham (Bath and North East Somerset)

This linear Somerset walk includes typical English countryside, quiet villages, old buildings and historic churches. The route runs from Keynsham to Bath along the northern fringes of the Mendip Hills, and its proximity to both Bath and Bristol ensures that it is well served by public transport.

Walking The Cam Brook Valley from Southstoke

Walker
↔8.80 km ↗+124 m ↘-124 m ◔2h 50 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Southstoke (Bath and North East Somerset)

A Somerset walk in the northern part of the county. The undulating route explores the hills and valleys to the south of Southstoke using field paths, the course of an old railway and tracks.

Walking Swineford Picnic Site

Walker
↔10.25 km ↗+242 m ↘-244 m ◔3h 35 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Bitton (South Gloucestershire)

From Swineford Picnic Area, the route climbs up through the village of Upton Cheyney; from here it's over fields, passing Beach House, and on to Coldharbour Farm. Return is back down the valley, up the other side via the humorously named – Grandmother’s Rock Lane, then onto the less humorous - Hanging Hill, up to Lansdown. Then a short section of the Cotswold Way. On leaving the Cotswold Way the route continues downhill to the village of North Stoke to pick and back to the Swineford Car Park.

Walking Tunnels and Kennet and Avon Canal

Walker
Tunnels and Kennet and Avon Canal
↔16.70 km ↗+235 m ↘-230 m ◔5h 25 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Bath and North East Somerset

A walk with fine views over Bath. Then a taste of 19th Century transport following the Somerset and Dorset disused railway through two tunnels, with information about the railway's history. Later picking up the Kennet and Avon Canal for the return journey to Bath.

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