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Guide name: Meare Village Trail
Type of walk:

Start: The Church

Description: Around this village you can discover Iron Age settlements raised in islands of bog, an English Heritage 'Fish House' and the remains of an Abbott's Vineyard.
Distance: 3 miles
Contact details: Mendip District Council
Telephone: 01749 341327
Price: £0.30
   
Guide name: Rode Village Trail
Type of walk:

Start: War Memorial  Finish: War Memorial

Description: Take a walk through a village that was once thriving from the textile industry and is recorded in the Doomsday Book.
Distance: 2 miles
Contact details: Mendip District Council
Telephone: 01749 341327
Price: £0.30
   
Guide name: Westbury-Sub-Mendip Village Trail
Type of walk:

Start: Village Cross Finish: Village Cross

Description: A rural walk looking at the historic features that make up country village. The trail is accessible for wheelchairs.
Distance: 2.5 miles
Contact details: Mendip District Council
Telephone: 01749 341327
Price: £0.30
   
Guide name: Baltonsborough Rural Walk
Type of walk:

2 Circular Walks

Description: A pleasant riverside walk on clay lowlands on easy level ground, a good family walk.
Distance: 3 & 5 miles
Contact details: Mendip District Council
Telephone: 01749 341327
Price: £0.20
   
Guide name: Butleigh Rural Walk
Type of walk:

Start: Post Office Finish: High Street

Description: A easy, rural walk through parkland and farmland in the Butleigh area. The trail does include stiles.
Distance: 3.5 miles
Contact details: Mendip District Council
Telephone: 01749 341327
Price: £0.20
   
Guide name: Charterhouse Rural Walk
Type of walk:

Start: Charterhouse Centre Finish: Charterhouse Centre

Description: An easy walk through the important ancient landscape of the Blackmoor Reserve and Velvet Bottom where Romans smelted metal.
Distance: 3 miles
Contact details: Mendip District Council
Telephone: 01749 341327
Price: £0.20
   
Guide name: Croscombe Rural Walk
Type of walk:

2 Circular Walks

Description: Two delightful and evocative walks through ancient woodland to a quarry, deserted since the 1860's.
Distance: 3 and 5 miles
Contact details: Mendip District Council
Telephone: 01749 341327
Price: £0.20
   
Guide name: Dinder Rural Walk
Type of walk:

2 Circular Walks

Description: A walk in the Dinder area encountering an ancient field system and 20th century defences. A good family walk.
Distance: 3 and 4 miles
Contact details: Mendip District Council
Telephone: 01749 341327
Price: £0.20
   
Guide name: Downside Rural Walk
Type of walk:

Start: Stratton on the Fosse Finish: Stratton on the Fosse

Description: A walk through coalmining country, with a wealth of industrial archaeology. A fairly long and challenging walk.
Distance: 6 miles
Contact details: Mendip District Council
Telephone: 01749 341327
Price: £0.20
   
Guide name: Leigh-on-Mendip Rural Walk
Type of walk:

Start: Bell Inn Finish: Leigh Street

Description: A circular walk from Leigh on Mendip to Coleford and back crossing country stiles and over the Hucky Duck aqueduct.
Distance: 5 miles
Contact details: Mendip District Council
Telephone: 01749 341327
Price: £0.20
   
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