Lanmar one

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I don't have much more to add to the previous review. I walked the opposite way starting in Martock. The villages in this area are known as The Hamstone Villages and Martock is particularly fine. The buildings are old, distinctive and full of history. Worth a wander around. The other thing I really like about Martock, is that all the footpaths around the village are well maintained, well used and clearly signed.
The whole route is well maintained in this instance. Almost all the way is off road, so is peaceful and safe. There were plenty of people on the paths closer to Langport, and I found the same to be true when I walked the very similar Lansou route in the winter.
I also came across horses and cows, but they aren't bothered by people or dogs.
There is a pub in Kingsbury Episcopi, but other than that no facilities outside of Langport and Martock.
Good walk, I recommend it.

A great Slow Way for the six or so miles on the ramparts of the River Parrett between Langport and Kingsbury Episcopi, with big skies and big views around all the way. There were other walkers around on a fine day at the weekend and many paddle boarders gliding along on the water. It was dry as a bone after three weeks of no rain and good for dragonflies. I was surrounded by twirling banded demoiselles for half a mile near Midelney pumping station - a joyous experience of beautiful insect abundance which is sadly increasingly rare.

The route closes in more after Kingsbury Episcopi, and becomes rather workaday for the last mile or so into Martock when it crosses some fields grazed by a herd of cobby ponies and uses arable headlands. On the way it briefly skirts a sewage farm (can’t see it from the path but a slight whiff and lots little flies - a less lovely form of insect abundance!) and some huge blank buildings housing an intensive poultry operation (depressing), but it does the job fine and gets you into the village easily, so I didn’t dock a star from the overall rating.

The route is generally easy to navigate - it is well-walked and there was often an obvious path on the ground - and was pretty well signed. There was long grass on some uncut droves and edges, and though most of the meadows had been mown by the time I walked the route, there might be a bit of wading through tall swards in some fields in late spring or a damper early summer. There were both cattle and horses on the way but they were all placid and used to walkers. This area can flood in winter.

Access includes footpath gates, stiles, kissing gates and footbridges.

Note that this Slow Way shares a course with its sister route from Langport to South Petherton for much of the way.

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