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Ebbor Gorge
Start by the waymarked route following the red arrows over
a turnstile and down some steps. When the path levels off
you come to a left turn. Follow the route marked with red
arrows leading further down into the gorge. Cross a stream
on a wooden bridge and follow the stream down then turn left
at the next junction. At the top of the gorge follow the patch
over the ancient stream bed and up tha narrow gap between
the cliffs.
Turn left at the cross roads and follow the path uphill (great
views here) until it opens out onto heathland. Go over a stile
(by a gate). Cross a stile into a field and keep to the left
hand side of the field. Notice the Radio Mast ahead on the
right. Go through the gate and head towards Higher Pitts Farm.
Follow the prominent arrows to skirt round the farm and come
out past the buildings and follow the farm track until it
joins Dursden Drove (trackway) where you turn right.
Walk between stone walls and hedges on the trackway heading
towards the Radio Mast.
After about a mile the track turns left and joins another
between some buildings. Go over the low stone wall just past
the building on the right and follow a narrow path steeply
down through woodland to Old Bristol Road.
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Cross another low wall, down the bank and turn right onto
the road. After 300 yards, and opposite a large cottage, turn
right onto a footpath beside a pumping station (Bristol Water
Works) at Holes Ash Spring.
Head diagonally across the field down towards a metal gate
close to the stream (on the right). Photo at Holes Ash Spring
(primroses etc). Over two gates onto a trackway following
yellow arrows. Keep to the left (top) of the field - heading
towards Glastonbury Tor - cross a gate onto Tynings Lane and
turn right.
Follow the lane down then up and round into Lower Milton.
Past Lower Milton Farm and Pear Tree Cottage, then round a
left hand bend. Notice a farmhouse on the right with a date
1689 and an inscription (plaque) for William II. Take the
footpath up some steps immediately after the farmhouse. West
Mendip Way.
Cross a rather makeshift stone and iron stile and walk along
the left hand side of a field towards some houses. Cross a
stone squeeze stile and go through a wooden kissing gate leading
out into Wookey Hole village, opposite the Visitor Centre.
Follow the path leading up to Wookey Hole/Cave and half way
up take a narrow footpath opposite the paper mill on the left
up the hill through the woods. Go over the stile and cross
the corner of the field to go through a gate and continue
uphill on a well defined path through trees.
Go through another gate into a field and keep left initially
then follow the path as to veers to the right uphill. Stay
on the well defined path up to a gate. Go over the stile in
the fence just past the gate on the left. This takes you back
to the field behind Lower (Higher) Pitts Farm. Cross to the
corner of the field and round the right hand side to the gate/stile
leading back into the Ebbor Gorge Nature Reserve.
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