Dog-friendly walks in Somerset

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Pinkworthy Pond to Moles Chamber

The Chains

Difficulty - Hard

Experience quintessential Exmoor among the barrows and tumuli of its Bronze Age farmers.

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Down the Doone Valley

Doone Valley

Difficulty - Hard

Fact and fiction intertwine in this moorland valley walk, which visits the tiny church celebrated in R D Blackmore's classic novel.

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Ancient Tarr Steps

Tarr Steps

Difficulty - Medium

Visit one of the oldest bridges in the world, set in a quiet valley clothed in ancient woodland.

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Winsford Hill

Tarr Steps

Difficulty - Medium

High above Tarr Steps

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Wimbleball Lake and Haddon Hill

Wimbleball Lake

Difficulty - Hard

Natural and artificial landscapes merge on this route through wooded valley, heathy hill and across the mighty Wimbleball Dam.

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Hawk Combe and Porlock Hill

Porlock

Difficulty - Medium

A stiff climb through wild woodland for a sudden sea view.

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Horner's corners

Horner

Difficulty - Hard

On the trail of Exmoor's red deer in the woodlands under Dunkery Beacon.

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Dunkery Beacon: Somerset's highest point

Dunkery Beacon

Difficulty - Hard

A moorland walk to the high point of Somerset

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Above the Severn

Minehead

Difficulty - Medium

From Porlock to Minehead along paths well trodden by smugglers, coastguards and a famous poet

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From Wheddon Cross to Brendon's heights

Lype Hill

Difficulty - Hard

A sunken lane from Wheddon Cross leads up to Lype Hill, the high point of the Brendons.

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Kilve and East Quantoxhead

Kilve

Difficulty - Easy

With the risk of French invasion now passed, you can spy out these Tudor villages and breezy cliffs without fearing arrest.

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An amble in the Quantocks

Holford

Difficulty - Medium

An up-and-down walk in the glorious Quantock combes.

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A Quantock ramble

Holford

Difficulty - Medium

Stretch your legs on this walk along the extensive Quantock ridge.

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A Bridgwater ramble

Bridgwater

Difficulty - Easy

From Bridgwater walk out beside a river and back beside a canal

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Wiveliscombe and the River Tone

Wiveliscombe

Difficulty - Easy

A pretty village and a wooded riverside on the edge of the Brendons.

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A walk in Prior's Park Wood

Blackdown Hills

Difficulty - Medium

Prior's Park Wood is at its best with autumn's colours or spring's bluebells beautifully concealing some intricate geology.

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Corfe and Staple Park

Blackdown Hills

Difficulty - Medium

A long walk to the Blackdown's highest points

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Over the edge to Sedgemoor

Curry Rivel

Difficulty - Easy

From Curry Rivel to the Cider Monument for a view over the moors.

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The woods around Ilminster

Ilminster

Difficulty - Easy

A pleasing riverside ramble, an ancient village, and a wood that aspires to being ancient.

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Lambrook's apple orchards

East Lambrook

Difficulty - Medium

A gentle, secluded ramble around the fields and fragrant apple orchards of central Somerset.

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Golden stone on the top of Ham Hill

Ham Hill

Difficulty - Medium

Ascending the hill whose warm-coloured limestone forms the towns and villages of Somerset.

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Montacute

Ham Hill

Difficulty - Medium

High Wood to Ham Hill with unexpected views of Montacute House

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Winsham and Wayford

Winsham

Difficulty - Easy

A walk between two remarkable villages, featuring two very different churches, hidden in the chalk combes of southwest Somerset.

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Coneygore Hill and Cucklington

Cucklington

Difficulty - Hard

Up and down the hill in deepest Somerset, taking in a church with over a thousand years of history.

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Around Cadbury Castle

South Cadbury

Difficulty - Medium

A hill-fort gives wide views of Somerset and a glimpse of pre-history.

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In Polden Hills and the Somerset Levels

Polden Hills

Difficulty - Medium

From Polden’s edge down on to the Somerset Levels and up again

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Glastonbury Tor and town

Glastonbury

Difficulty - Easy

King Arthur, a sacred thorn, a Somerset tor and 10 centuries of fine buildings

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Alfred's Tower and Stourhead

Alfred's Tower

Difficulty - Medium

An expedition through parts of Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire, to Stourhead and Alfred’s Tower.

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Bruton Combes

Bruton

Difficulty - Medium

A walk around and above beautiful Bruton, a typical Somerset town, built in the early wealth of the wool industry.

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Nunney: village, castle and combe

Nunney

Difficulty - Easy

Visit a stone-built village with a moated castle, once besieged in the Civil War, on this wander through woodland and pasture.

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Around Nunney

Nunney

Difficulty - Medium

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Along the Fosse Way to Shepton Mallet

Shepton Mallet

Difficulty - Medium

Catch a bus for this linear stroll along a Roman motorway.

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Burrow Mump

Difficulty - Medium

A gentle wander around the Somerset Levels near Burrowbridge leading up to a hump called a ‘mump’.

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Westhay Peatland Reserve

Westhay

Difficulty - Medium

A nature ramble through reconstructed peat marshland, including a brief walk on water.

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Romantic Ebbor Gorge

Ebbor Gorge

Difficulty - Hard

The small but sublime limestone gorge that inspired Coleridge to write one of his best-known poems, 'Kubla Khan'.

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Wells and Pen Hill

Wells

Difficulty - Medium

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Cheddar Gorge

Cheddar

Difficulty - Hard

A circuit around Somerset’s most impressive natural feature and beside the home of its gorgeous cheese.

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Huntspill and the Parrett's mouth

Huntspill

Difficulty - Easy

No cliffs or crashing waves – a coastal walk to heighten your understanding of flatlands and mud.

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Crook Peak and Wavering Down

Crook Peak

Difficulty - Medium

A high-level ridge wander in the western Mendips over a lot of geology to Somerset’s shapeliest summit.

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Dolebury Warren

Difficulty - Easy

A fine walk through woodland, heathland and an Iron Age hill-fort on the northern rim of the Mendips.

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Burrington Combe and Beacon Batch

Burrington Combe

Difficulty - Medium

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Hunstrete and Compton Dando

Woollard

Difficulty - Medium

Serenity enjoyed in a rich landscape nestling between the busy cities of Bristol and Bath.

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A Wellow walk

Wellow

Difficulty - Medium

A green valley walk, where Cotswold melds into Mendip

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Wellow Brook and Stony Littleton Long Barrow

Wellow

Difficulty - Medium