Bath & West Country Walks - Walking holidays in...

A four –days walking holidaythat will give you a chance to relax and enjoy the gentle landscape and sleepy villages that lie in the beautiful countryside beyond the historic City of Bath. The walks take you along the Kennet and Avon Canal and you can visit historic Farleigh Hungerford Castle and National Trust Stourhead Gardens as well as following the Bath Skyline with wonderful views over the Georgian city. This holiday takes you to Longleat estate,the home of Lord Bath.You will not be disappointed with the variety of walks, and the beautiful countryside and places of interest you visit.

You will be staying at the Limpley Stoke Hotel a three star,Best Western hotel situated overlooking the Avon Valley four miles from the City of Bath.

Your Programme

Day 1: Arrive

Day 2: Limpley Stoke – Bath (E:8mls/12.8kms)

This walk starts along the Kennet and Avon Canal before we climb through Bathampton woods with spectacular views over the Georgian City of Bath. We drop down to rejoin the canal and finish at Bath Abbey giving us time to spend in the city.

Day 3:Stourhead – White Sheet Downs – Alfred’s Tower (M:9mls/14kms)

Step back in time on this walk where you visit an Iron Age Fort on the top of White Sheet Hill with wonderful views over the Wiltshire chalk downland and the Stourhead Estate.You then enter parkland to reach King Alfred's Tower, returning through woodland back to Stourhead Village.

Day 4: Bradford -on-Avon – Farleigh Hungerford (M:8.5mls/13.6kms)

A walk which starts at the historic market town of Bradford-on-Avon and includes waterside stretches along the banks of the River Frome,River Avon and the Kennet and Avon Canal. The walk takes you to the ‘English Heritage’ romantic medieval castle ruins at Farleigh Hungerford. On leaving the castle you continue over pastureland to the pretty village of Iford and return back to Bradford-on-Avon.

Entrance to Castle included in guided holiday price.

Day 5: Heaven’s Gate – Longleat Estate– Shearwater (M:9mls/ 13kms)

This interesting circular walk starts at Heaven’s Gate and gives you wonderful views over the Longleat Estate. You pass through the village of Horningsham and then continue across pastureland and through woodland to arrive at Shearwater Lake.

Day 6: Depart

Guided and self guided walking holidays in the English countryside. Our holidays enable you to walk at your own pace. Among the places we visit Bath. Avebury, Cheddar,Glastonbury and Wells. Also we visit the Cotswold sand Exmoor. Our price on guided walks includes dinner,bed and breakfast,picnic lunch on walk days and all transportation to and from the walks.