Sir Bevill Grenville’s Monument

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

(S/E) From the front door of The Charlcombe Inn, cross the road carefully. Then turn left to walk past Chapel Farm on your right and then the entrance to the golf club on your left. Just past here turn right through a kissing gate and bear half-left across the field ahead to another kissing gate in the far left-hand corner.

(1) Beyond this gate, turn left to a wooden kissing gate into a lane. Cross over the lane and go through a similar gate opposite. Join the track and follow it along the fence and through a gate to pass a corrugated iron barn. Keep on along the fence to a gateway by a metal trough. Beyond the gateway, bear half-right to a field gate in the far corner.

(2) At the junction of paths follow the path ahead along the wall around the head of a valley. By a Battle of Lansdowne interpretation board, turn left over the steps and stone slab stile in the wall. Follow the wall on your right and drop into woodland at the far side, bearing left along the woodland edge. Cross a wall and leave the woodland to emerge by Sir Bevill Grenville’s Monument (A).

(3) Follow the path ahead out to the road by a lay-by. Cross over into a metalled drive and turn immediately left into a field. Cross the field diagonally to a small car park at the end of a wood.

(4) At the back of the car park join a bridleway that leads along a wall, with woodland on your right.

(5) At a junction of paths at the end of the wood, turn left, signposted “Public Bridleway”. Follow the wall on your left, with the golf course and racecourse away to your right. Beyond the racecourse access road (B), the path continues in the same direction, following a line of trees, to reach the clubhouse. Cross the car park in front of the clubhouse and then cross an area of rough grassland beyond, to a metal hooped gate in the corner. Turn right along the road to return to The Charlcombe Inn (C). (S/E)

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

Notes: Level; field paths may be muddy after rain.

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(A) Sometimes described as the UK’s first war memorial, Sir Bevill Grenville’s Monument, erected in 1720, commemorates the death of the Royalist commander at the Battle of Lansdowne in 1643.

(B) 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).

(C) The Charlcombe Inn is a classic countryside free house, with a comfortable interior, large garden overlooking Bath Racecourse, open for rooms and refreshments. The menu offers a good range of pub classics plus some more exciting dishes, cooked fresh and wherever possible, using locally sourced ingredients.