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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 13.60 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 4h 10 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 89 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 87 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 108 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 35 m
  • ⚐
    District: Yeovil 
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 50.939441° / W 2.641253°
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Description

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Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 37 m - Start on
  2. 2 : km 0.29 - alt. 42 m - Turn right
  3. 3 : km 1.2 - alt. 60 m - Turn slight right onto Larkhill Road
  4. 4 : km 2.58 - alt. 86 m - Turn right onto Thorne Lane
  5. 5 : km 2.93 - alt. 90 m - Keep left onto Thorne Lane
  6. 6 : km 2.95 - alt. 90 m - Turn left
  7. 7 : km 2.97 - alt. 90 m - Turn left onto Thorne Lane
  8. 8 : km 3.37 - alt. 88 m - Keep left
  9. 9 : km 4.33 - alt. 76 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Stourton Way
  10. 10 : km 4.35 - alt. 76 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Western Avenue
  11. 11 : km 4.54 - alt. 68 m - Enter roundabout
  12. 12 : km 4.81 - alt. 66 m - Enter roundabout
  13. 13 : km 5.59 - alt. 70 m - Turn left
  14. 14 : km 5.61 - alt. 70 m - Turn slight right
  15. 15 : km 5.65 - alt. 69 m - Turn slight left onto Preston Road
  16. 16 : km 7.52 - alt. 108 m - Turn left
  17. 17 : km 10.26 - alt. 88 m - Turn left onto West Coker Road, A30
  18. 18 : km 10.62 - alt. 86 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto West Coker Road, A30
  19. 19 : km 12.03 - alt. 79 m - Enter roundabout
  20. 20 : km 12.7 - alt. 36 m - Keep right onto A30
  21. 21 : km 12.71 - alt. 36 m - Turn right
  22. 22 : km 12.79 - alt. 36 m - Turn right
  23. 23 : km 13 - alt. 36 m - Turn left
  24. 24 : km 13.08 - alt. 36 m - Turn right onto A30
  25. 25 : km 13.14 - alt. 36 m - At roundabout, take exit 3 onto Lysander Way, A3088
  26. 26 : km 13.26 - alt. 36 m - Turn right
  27. 27 : km 13.27 - alt. 36 m - Turn right
  28. 28 : km 13.29 - alt. 36 m - Turn left
  29. 29 : km 13.47 - alt. 36 m - Turn right onto West Hendford
  30. 30 : km 13.47 - alt. 36 m - Turn right onto Beer Street
  31. S/E : km 13.6 - alt. 37 m

Useful Information

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