enjoy the view

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view from Grabbist Hill

Grabbist Hill and Wootton Courtney

Notes and points of interest

Blindmans Well This is a tiny spring, often no more than a puddle, but sometimes bursting into fuller life to form a stream leading down in the direction of Minehead. To see the spring follow the path leading downhill to the right from the Grabbist Hill ridge, then retrace your steps back to the main path..

Dunkery Beacon can be seen from parts of this route. It is a dominant high point on this side of Exmoor, reaching to 1687 feet (519 metres).

Holes Corner Near an entrance to forestry commission land, a signpost points south to Croydon Hill, west north west to Selworthy and back to Grabbist Hill. A seat (erected by his friends in memory of Gary Draper) affords the opportunity to survey the view in comfort, looking across Minehead out into the Bristol Channel.

Wootton Courtney with its 15th century All Saints church is a small village lying alongside a stream. It boasts a number of pretty thatched cottages, which, together with the church and a stone bridge, present many of the ideals contained in the phrase "English village".

Knowle Lane is the beginning and end of this walk and is distinguished for being undistinguished. It is too narrow to become a "rat run" and consequently offers a quietness that is rarely found on modern roads. Walking along this tree-lined lane under the shadow of Grabbist Hill you experience walking as it used to be before everyone could afford a motor car.