Broad Street Wrington Website
Some local walks
selected from North Somerset leaflet
available from libraries

Sunday 9th June • 2pm till 4.30pm

Charterhouse Lead Mines

Remains of buddles, furnaces, flues and expanses
of
lead-rich waste recall an industrial past.

Walk led by: North Somerset Museum Service
Meeting at Charterhouse-on-Mendip by roadside
in the
valley (Velvet Bottom) south of church.

Sunday 28th July 2pm till 4.30pm

Felton Common

With features such as prehistoric burial mounds,
medieval quarries for Felton Stone and the curious raps, this elevated wide open grassland
has much to offer.

Walk led by: NSC Ranger Service
Meeting at: St Katherines Church,
West Lane (off A38), Lulsgate

Sunday 4th August • 2pm till 4.30pm

Dolbury Hillfort

A chance to become an expert on this magnificent
Iron Age hillfort once admired by Henry VIII’s own
historian!

Walk led by: North Somerset Museum Service
Meeting at: Nelson Arms, Skinner’s Lane, Churchill.

Sunday 8th September • 2pm till 4.30pm

Strawberry Railway Line to Winscombe

Relive the hopes and fears raised by the building of this railway in the 19C.
Walk led by: NSC Ranger Service

Meeting at: The Woodborough Inn, Winscombe

Sunday 15th September • 2pm till 4.30pm

Goblin Combe

This fine rocky gorge has attracted artists, geologists, botanists and ramblers for over two centuries.

Walk led by: NSC Ranger Service
Meeting at: The Goblin Combe Environment Centre,
Plunder St, Off Cleeve Road, Cleeve

Sunday 29th September •
2pm till 4.30pm

Trendlewood Quarrying
and Coal Mining

A reminder of
Nailsea’s industrial past.

Walk led by: NSC Ranger Service

Meeting at: Outside
main entrance of
Scotch Horn Leisure
Centre, Nailsea

Sunday 6th October • 2pm till 4.30pm

Burrington Combe

This is quintessential limestone scenery with streams
disappearing into ‘swallet caves’ to reappear as spings
feeding North Somerset rivers.
Here also are caves used
for prehistoric habitation and burial.

Walk led by: North Somerset Museum Service
Meeting at:
Car Park opposite Rock of Ages,
Burrington Combe