Prospect Stile and the Racecourse

Start: The Charlcombe Inn, Lansdown, Bath, Somerset BA1 9BT
Tel +44 (0)1225 421995

(S/E) From the front door of The Charlcombe Inn, turn left along the road. When the fence on your left ends, take a footpath on the left through a hooped metal gate. Bear right across an area of rough
grassland and cross the car park in front of the golf clubhouse. Beyond the clubhouse, follow the line of trees ahead of you.

(1) Cross the racecourse (A) access road and continue in the same direction, now with a wall on your right and the golf course and racecourse to your left.

(2) At a signposted junction of paths at the end of a wood, turn left across the fairway, along a track followed by the Cotswold Way. Follow the track past Pipley Barn on the left and then around the edge of the golf course past a sign for Pipley Wood. Beyond a gate follow the track as it starts to descend to a Cotswold Way post.

(3) At the post follow the path to the left that climbs slightly to another gate. Follow the path ahead, below the trees. At the next waymark post, turn sharp left, uphill. Go through a kissing gate to the right of a field gate and follow the path ahead, across the field. Cross the bank and ditch of the hill-fort.

(4) Turn right with the earthwork on your right. Follow the field edge round to the left to a gate into the racecourse. Keep along the right-hand edge to the topograph at Prospect Stile (B). Having admired the view, turn left and head straight towards the grandstand, swinging right as you approach the course itself until you rejoin the trees.

(5) Duck under the rails and cross the course, aiming well to the right of the communications mast, then head along a line of metal railings and cross the course again.

(6) Bear right along a wall at the far edge of the course with trees behind it. Follow the wall past the rear of The Charlcombe Inn’s (C) garden then, when the wall ends, turn left to a kissing gate back into the pub car park. (S/E)

Start: The Charlcombe Inn, Lansdown, Bath, Somerset BA1 9BT
Tel +44 (0)1225 421995

Notes: Paths across the racecourse may be unavailable during race meetings, and the exact line of the footpath across the course is not clearly defined.

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(A) Bath Racecourse is Britain’s highest flat-racing course. Racing was first recorded in Bath in 1728 but the first major meet was held in 1811. Notable races includes the Lansdown Fillies’ Stake (April) and the Beckford Stakes (October).

(B) Kelston Round Hill can be seen from Prospect Stile.

(C) The Charlcombe Inn is a classic countryside free house, with a comfortable interior, large garden overlooking Bath Racecourse, with food and accommodation available.