BS Winterbourne Frenchay Circular 8 Miles
Technical sheet
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Activity: Walking
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Distance: 13.49 km
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Average duration: 4h 05
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Difficulty: Not specified
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Return to departure point: Yes
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Vertical gain: + 70 m
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Vertical drop: - 65 m
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Highest point: 74 m
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Lowest point: 27 m
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Country: United Kingdom
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District: Bradley Stoke
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Start/End: N 51.526057° / W 2.540264°
Waypoints
- S/E : km 0 - alt. 53 m - Start on Webbs Wood Road
- 2 : km 0.01 - alt. 53 m - Turn right onto Webbs Wood Road
- 3 : km 0.07 - alt. 53 m - Keep right onto Webbs Wood Road
- 4 : km 0.08 - alt. 53 m - Turn right onto Webbs Wood Road
- 5 : km 0.23 - alt. 54 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Bradley Stoke Way
- 6 : km 0.62 - alt. 58 m - At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Bradley Stoke Way
- 7 : km 1.13 - alt. 60 m - Keep left onto Bradley Stoke Way
- 8 : km 1.17 - alt. 59 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Winterbourne Road, B4057
- 9 : km 1.23 - alt. 60 m - At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Great Stoke Way
- 10 : km 1.3 - alt. 59 m - Turn right
- 11 : km 1.31 - alt. 60 m - Turn sharp left onto Great Stoke Way
- 12 : km 1.73 - alt. 67 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Hunts Ground Road
- 13 : km 1.76 - alt. 67 m - Turn left
- 14 : km 1.79 - alt. 68 m - Turn left onto Hunts Ground Road
- 15 : km 1.91 - alt. 66 m - At roundabout, take exit 3 onto Hunts Ground Road
- 16 : km 2.09 - alt. 67 m - Turn left
- 17 : km 2.38 - alt. 65 m - Turn left onto Hambrook Lane
- 18 : km 2.94 - alt. 64 m - Turn left onto Harry Stoke Road
- 19 : km 3.94 - alt. 69 m - Turn right onto Filton Lane
- 20 : km 3.96 - alt. 69 m - Turn left
- 21 : km 3.96 - alt. 70 m - Turn left
- 22 : km 4.27 - alt. 60 m - Keep right
- 23 : km 4.31 - alt. 61 m - Turn slight right
- 24 : km 4.31 - alt. 61 m - Turn left onto Ring Road Path
- 25 : km 4.34 - alt. 61 m - Turn left onto Ring Road Path
- 26 : km 4.39 - alt. 60 m - Keep right
- 27 : km 4.43 - alt. 60 m - Turn left
- 28 : km 4.62 - alt. 62 m - Turn right onto Filton Road
- 29 : km 5.36 - alt. 43 m - Turn right
- 30 : km 5.37 - alt. 43 m - Turn left
- 31 : km 5.7 - alt. 47 m - Turn right onto Filton Road
- 32 : km 5.72 - alt. 47 m - Turn left onto Old Gloucester Road
- 33 : km 5.87 - alt. 45 m - Turn right onto Filton Road
- 34 : km 6.02 - alt. 46 m - Turn left onto Bristol Road, B4058
- 35 : km 6.22 - alt. 45 m - Turn right
- 36 : km 6.22 - alt. 45 m - Turn left
- 37 : km 7.17 - alt. 42 m - Turn slight left onto Ring Road Path
- 38 : km 8.3 - alt. 42 m - Turn right
- 39 : km 9 - alt. 47 m - Turn sharp right onto Bury Hill
- 40 : km 9 - alt. 47 m - Turn right
- 41 : km 9.14 - alt. 45 m - Keep left
- 42 : km 9.66 - alt. 49 m - Turn sharp right onto Church Road
- 43 : km 9.67 - alt. 49 m - Turn slight right onto Mill Road
- 44 : km 10.18 - alt. 72 m - Turn left onto Dragon Road
- 45 : km 10.68 - alt. 70 m - Turn left
- 46 : km 10.78 - alt. 66 m - Turn right onto Beacon Lane, B4057
- 47 : km 11.82 - alt. 48 m - Keep left onto Winterbourne Road, B4057
- 48 : km 11.88 - alt. 47 m - Keep left onto Winterbourne Road, B4057
- 49 : km 12.28 - alt. 59 m - At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Bradley Stoke Way
- 50 : km 12.36 - alt. 60 m - Turn slight right onto Bradley Stoke Way
- 51 : km 12.53 - alt. 60 m - Turn left onto The Worthys
- 52 : km 12.54 - alt. 60 m - Turn right
- 53 : km 12.84 - alt. 59 m - Turn right
- 54 : km 13.26 - alt. 54 m - Keep right
- 55 : km 13.27 - alt. 54 m - Turn left onto Webbs Wood Road
- 56 : km 13.4 - alt. 53 m - Turn left onto Webbs Wood Road
- 57 : km 13.41 - alt. 53 m - Turn slight left onto Webbs Wood Road
- 58 : km 13.47 - alt. 53 m - Turn left onto Baileys Court
- S/E : km 13.49 - alt. 53 m
Other walks in the area
Stoke Park
Hilly, with extensive views over and beyond the park landscape, mainly on open land.
Barn Wood
Contoured walk with a focus on 18th century historic features in semi-ancient woodland.
Canford Park, Blaise and Henbury Golf Course loop
Lovely walk in north Bristol slightly off the most obvious paths in Blaise Estate.
Rhododendron
Passing by Goram’s Chair, Tarn Lake, Beech Cathedral, Lily Pond, Rhododendron Walk, Rustic Lodge, Woodman’s Cottage.
Royals and St Mary’s Church
The Church of St Mary the Virgin dates back to 1093, with various rebuilding over the years until an extensive refurbishment in 1878. Look out for two notable graves; an obelisk memorial to the Egyptologist Amelia Edwards and coloured head and foot stones of ‘Scipio Africanus’, a negro slave.
Gorge
The gorge is at its deepest below Lover’s Leap. You can see massive cliffs of steeply tilted white Carboniferous Limestone. It is difficult to see exactly how the Gorge was formed. It would have been directly influenced by the most recent Ice Age up to 100,000 years ago.
Castle
Built in 1795 for John Scandret Harford by William Paty. A solid, simple design placed on a rise so as to appear bigger. Harford was responsible for commissioning landscape architect Humphrey Repton and thereafter, architect John Nash who designed the Orangery, Dairy and nearby Blaise Hamlet. More ornate additions representing a Greek classical influence were made to both the exterior and interior of the house from 1832-3 by C R Cockerell on instruction from J S Harford Jnr.
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