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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 21.92 km
  • ◔
    Average duration: 6h 50 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 204 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 198 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 141 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 31 m
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Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 55 m - Start on Speke Close
  2. 2 : km 0.55 - alt. 34 m - At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Station Road, B3168
  3. 3 : km 1.41 - alt. 33 m - Turn sharp left onto Jordans Road
  4. 4 : km 1.49 - alt. 33 m - Turn slight left onto Station Road, B3168
  5. 5 : km 1.58 - alt. 36 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto A358
  6. 6 : km 2.43 - alt. 53 m - Turn left onto Puddlebridge Road
  7. 7 : km 3.99 - alt. 73 m - Turn sharp left onto Pottery Road
  8. 8 : km 5.63 - alt. 85 m - Turn left
  9. 9 : km 5.64 - alt. 85 m - Turn right onto Bell Lane
  10. 10 : km 5.67 - alt. 85 m - Turn right
  11. 11 : km 7.44 - alt. 42 m - Turn right onto A358
  12. 12 : km 7.47 - alt. 42 m - Turn sharp right
  13. 13 : km 7.5 - alt. 42 m - Turn right onto Old Taunton to Chard Train Line
  14. 14 : km 7.91 - alt. 43 m - Turn left onto Old A3037
  15. 15 : km 7.91 - alt. 43 m - Turn right
  16. 16 : km 8.59 - alt. 49 m - Turn left
  17. 17 : km 10.67 - alt. 68 m - Keep left
  18. 18 : km 10.8 - alt. 74 m - Turn right onto Chaffcombe Lane
  19. 19 : km 13.01 - alt. 131 m - Turn sharp left
  20. 20 : km 14.45 - alt. 74 m - Turn right
  21. 21 : km 14.47 - alt. 73 m - Turn slight right onto Wooley Lane
  22. 22 : km 18.44 - alt. 60 m - Turn left onto Main Street
  23. 23 : km 18.64 - alt. 69 m - Turn sharp left
  24. 24 : km 18.74 - alt. 73 m - Keep right
  25. 25 : km 18.95 - alt. 78 m - Turn left onto Main Street
  26. 26 : km 19.34 - alt. 90 m - Turn right onto Moolham Lane
  27. 27 : km 19.38 - alt. 90 m - Turn left onto Kingstone Hill
  28. 28 : km 21.03 - alt. 66 m - Turn left onto Bay Hill
  29. S/E : km 21.92 - alt. 55 m

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Walking Bishopswood Meadows (and Jan Hobbs) Nature Reserve

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↔3.60 km ↗+85 m ↘-76 m ◔1h 15 ▲Easy
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Species-rich limestone and marshy meadows beside River Yarty.

Walking Blackbrook Meander

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↔2.84 km ↗+5 m ↘-5 m ◔0h 50 ▲Easy
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A gentle meander alongside Blackbrook and around pleasant Hamilton Gault Park. The stream is a traffic-free route for wildlife in and out of the town, including otters and water voles. Come out on a summer evening and watch bats flying above your head catching insects.

Walking River and Canal

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↔2.63 km ↗+5 m ↘-5 m ◔0h 45 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Taunton (Somerset)
A pleasant route of reasonable distance, taking in a beautiful stretch of Taunton’s crowning glory the River Tone, and a quiet tract of the Bridgwater and Taunton canal. Wildlife abounds.

Walking A Criss-Cross of Bridges

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↔1.97 km ↗+4 m ↘-4 m ◔0h 35 ▲Easy
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Take in a lively stretch of the River Tone, a new wildlife mural, and the Mill Stream running through Goodland Gardens. Visit by day you’ll see Little Egrets hunting for fish, and at dusk, you might be joined by bats who are out hunting for their supper.

Walking River Tone Story Trail

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↔1.81 km ↗+4 m ↘-4 m ◔0h 30 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Taunton (Somerset)
Circular, family-fun story trail 1.5km riverside walk.

Walking Quants Nature Reserve

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↔3.83 km ↗+123 m ↘-119 m ◔1h 25 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from West Buckland (Somerset)
Mosaic of relic heathy grassland and ancient and secondary woodland on the steep north-facing slope of Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

Walking Seatown from Charmouth via Golden Cap

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↔6.33 km ↗+282 m ↘-275 m ◔2h 35 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Charmouth (Dorset)
This linear Dorset walk follows the South West Coast Path from Charmouth to Seatown. The coastal scenery on this part of the Jurassic Coast is dramatic and the walk includes the highest point on the Dorest Coast at Golden Cap.

Walking Dundon Beacon Nature Reserve, Compton Dundon

Walker
↔3.90 km ↗+96 m ↘-93 m ◔1h 25 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Compton Dundon (Somerset)
A mosaic of calcareous grassland, scrub, ancient oak woodland, secondary woodland and conifer plantation on Dundon Hill. The top of Dundon Hill features significant archaeological remains with a hill fort, Bronze Age round barrow and ancient quarry.

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