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Very similar to Hamyat one, with the minor access issues resolved, the route through Kendleshire golf course replotted, and a more off road entry into Yate.
Note that the bus service to the stop in Hambrook was discontinued in 2023. You have to walk 500m or so south down to the ring road to pick up the bus there
Very similar to Hamyat one, with the minor access issues resolved, the route through Kendleshire golf course replotted, and a more off road entry into Yate.
Note that the bus service to the stop in Hambrook was discontinued in 2023. You have to walk 500m or so south down to the ring road to pick up the bus there
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Hambrook
Grid Ref
ST6418078980
Lat / Lon
51.50860° / -2.51752°
Easting / Northing
364,180E / 178,980N
What3Words
guises.chew.tile
Yate
Grid Ref
ST7146482599
Lat / Lon
51.54156° / -2.41286°
Easting / Northing
371,464E / 182,599N
What3Words
solve.mice.shut
Hambrook | |
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Grid Ref | ST6418078980 |
Lat / Lon | 51.50860° / -2.51752° |
Easting / Northing | 364,180E / 178,980N |
What3Words | guises.chew.tile |
Yate | |
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Grid Ref | ST7146482599 |
Lat / Lon | 51.54156° / -2.41286° |
Easting / Northing | 371,464E / 182,599N |
What3Words | solve.mice.shut |
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Hugh Hudson
16 Aug 2023 (edited 17 Aug 2023)Walked from Yate to Hambrook as part of a longer walk to Bristol (I can't review BRIHAM two yet because the route page for that one is currently inaccessible). This route is mostly good, but despite all the signs I struggled to get out of the second golf course, and I don't see the logic of going up Ivory Hill - lots of overgrown holly on the path through the wood. There are also a few little used path, but nothing that can't be followed with a bit of determination and careful navigation, and the GPX is well plotted.
For those arriving by train at Yate, the first task is to find the meeting point, which probably looks better in an aerial photo than on the ground - the area in front of the shopping centre is carefully designed but somebody forgot to put any benches in. We start through the shopping centre and continue on a cycle track that reminded me of Milton Keynes, then follow a railway and cross a bridge into Wapley Common - here I stayed on the wide tarmac path rather than trying to follow the right of way around the west edge.
The section from Besom Lane to Westerleigh is on a little used footpath, and some of the gates require careful navigation as they are not visible from a distance. We walk round the village to join a more popular cycletrack that starts narrow then joins an old lane (Broad Lane). There is house building ongoing at Boxhedge Farm, and as Mockymock says the path has been diverted around the new track (somewhat cheekily the signs describe this as a permissive route, where the right of way appears to have been blocked without consultation!).
It is easy enough to find the way to and through Ram Hill Wood, and after a short road walk we enter the Kendleshire, an enormous golf course. There is no shortage of footpath signs here, but they go missing at a few crucial points, notably the crossing of Ruffet Lane (where I tried to follow the GPX but had to retreat to the previous gate - OpenStreetMap is correct here). Beyond the lane, the route through and beyond the pools is not on a clear path - there are plenty of signs and red marker posts, but there is nothing to indicate the exit beyond the last fairway crossing, which took me a while to locate and uses a fairly overgrown path to reach Park Lane.
Here we take the road opposite that climbs steeply up Ivory Hill, then take a path that leads into a small area of access land, which is mostly filled with holly bushes - there is a visible path which is easy enough to follow but quite difficult to use without being scratched by the rampant holly. I suspect staying on the pavement of Badminton Road (the A432) and using Huckford Lane would be easier, with less up and down. We then follow a quiet farm lane most of the way to the river Frome. The short path that connects the lane to the wide riverside path is narrow, muddy and deeply rutted, so needs a little care. The river path is better but still quite muddy in places - there are also steps.
At Down Road we cross the river and follow The Dingle, a riverside residential street, then take the track left that leads to a bridge, which we cross and continue on a good track (less of a hill than the OS 1:25000 suggests), then turn right when we reach the road, then take three left turns to reach and cross the river again. Another good track takes us to Rock House, then we take a little used field path with stiles to reach the B4058, which we follow uphill to the Hambrook meeting point (another rather eccentric choice though it is close to a pub and a pair of bus stops).
Mockymock
13 Feb 2023A really nice walk, starting along the River Frome valley and then, after a short hike across a golf course, taking paths through fields and along peaceful, oak tree-fringed bridleways to the edge of Yate via the village of Westerleigh, where there is a pub that offers lunches. Entrance into Yate via quiet multiuser paths through Wapley Bushes nature reserve, then a green corridor by the railway, and on through the housing estates. Only the last part is by a busy road but that is along a cycle path on a wide green verge. Ends up at Yate’s monsterchain-store shopping centre, which has a well-connected bus hub.
More detailed review to follow.
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Panifex
04 Jan 2024I haven't walked this route yet (I will be doing so in the next few months) so can't leave a review yet. It seems like a really nice walk (and I based my alternative more direct, but inferior in other ways, hamyat three on it) and I'm looking forward to walking it. I just want to comment that the bus service *does* stop at the bus stop in Hambrook again (services Y1 and Y2 are regular and quick!) which is a definite plus.
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Mockymock
23 Aug 2023Thanks for writing this detailed and helpful review. For some reason, I completely forgot to put on the full review on that I promised back in February. My bad! Anyway I totally agree that the Kendleshire golf course is confusing however one tries to map it, and I also agree about Ivory Hill. There was a blockage on the original route there too, and I simply remapped it to the nearest useable path I could find, but you are quite right, it is actually less effort to go round by the road and the lane to the south.
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