Montacute
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From the square facing the Phelips Arms, follow the main street left. At the church, go left again in front of The Kings Arms Inn and keep ahead past Abbey Farm along a private road to Hollow Lane. There, turn right but leave immediately through a kissing gate on the right. Climb above the lane at edge of fields, rejoining it at the top of the hill.
Take the track opposite but, just beyond a gate, swing through another on the right and follow a slanting trod down the hill side towards the site of the lost village of Witcombe. Walk along the base of the valley, leaving through a gate at the far end. Drop left, crossing a track to a kissing gate. Swing right at the bottom of a pasture to another gate, from which a path winds through High Wood around the base of a hill. Ignore paths off right and left as you curve around the snout of the hill, eventually leaving the trees behind to emerge over a stile by a gate into a field. Make for a field track at the far side and follow it uphill. Through a gate, continue over the crest to find a stile on the right. Drop through trees to an old track below, known as Hocker's Hill.
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