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Hanham walks
Keynsham to Bath on the south side of the Avon
Visorando Member 
11.11 mi
+384 ft
-364 ft
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.
Stoke Park
Visorando Member 1.72 mi
+200 ft
-203 ft
1h 00
Easy
Departure from City of Bristol
Hilly, with extensive views over and beyond the park landscape, mainly on open land.
Barn Wood
Visorando Member 1.84 mi
+177 ft
-210 ft
1h 00
Easy
Departure from City of Bristol
Contoured walk with a focus on 18th century historic features in semi-ancient woodland.
Swineford Picnic Site
Visorando Member 6.37 mi
+833 ft
-846 ft
3h 40
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.
Clifton Down
Visorando Member 1.44 mi
+246 ft
-171 ft
0h 50
Easy
Departure from City of Bristol
It is 150 years since The Clifton and Durdham Downs (Bristol) Act, 1861 secured the Downs as a place of recreation for us all – forever. This trail and a second trail exploring Durdham Down celebrate this anniversary and explore the rich and fascinating history of the Downs.
Durdham Down
Visorando Member 2.22 mi
+164 ft
-164 ft
1h 10
Easy
Departure from City of Bristol
It is 150 years since The Clifton and Durdham Downs (Bristol) Act, 1861 secured the Downs as a place of recreation for us all – forever. This trail and a second trail exploring the Promenade and Observatory Hill celebrate this anniversary and explore the rich and fascinating history of the Downs.
Along River Chew, Pensford and Hunstrete Lake from Compton Dando
Visorando Member 
8.19 mi
+607 ft
-607 ft
4h 20
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.
Cotswold villages of Doynton and Dyrham
Visorando Member 6.20 mi
+427 ft
-440 ft
3h 15
Moderate
Departure from Doynton (South Gloucestershire)
Doynton is a village situated at the southern end of the Cotswolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, approximately 14.5km (9.0) miles from Bath. The walk starts from the Holy Trinity Church, Doynton, and takes you up the Cotswold escarpment, over fields, through quiet lanes and valleys, to the village of Dyrham, before returning to Doynton
Canford Park, Blaise and Henbury Golf Course loop
Visorando Member 1.92 mi
+226 ft
-230 ft
1h 05
Easy
Departure from City of Bristol
Lovely walk in north Bristol slightly off the most obvious paths in Blaise Estate.
From Stanton Prior via Burnett, Compton Dando and Marksbury.
Visorando Member 7.95 mi
+541 ft
-545 ft
4h 10
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.
Rhododendron
Visorando Member 2.44 mi
+246 ft
-262 ft
1h 20
Moderate
Departure from City of Bristol
Passing by Goram’s Chair, Tarn Lake, Beech Cathedral, Lily Pond, Rhododendron Walk, Rustic Lodge, Woodman’s Cottage.
Royals and St Mary’s Church
Visorando Member 1.53 mi
+174 ft
-161 ft
0h 50
Easy
Departure from City of Bristol
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
Visorando Member 1.12 mi
+118 ft
-121 ft
0h 35
Easy
Departure from City of Bristol
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
Visorando Member 0.77 mi
+125 ft
-125 ft
0h 30
Easy
Departure from City of Bristol
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.
More walks in Hanham
Discover also walks in surrounding cities:
- Englishcombe
- Farmborough
- Farrington Gurney
- Filton
- Frampton Cotterell
- Hanham Abbots
- High Littleton
- Hinton Blewett
- Horton
- Iron Acton
- Kelston
- Keynsham
- Little Sodbury
- Long Ashton
- Marksbury
- Nempnett Thrubwell
- Newton St. Loe
- North Stoke
- Norton Malreward
- Oldland
- Olveston
- Patchway
- Paulton
- Peasedown St. John
- Pilning and Severn Beach