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Walk 8: An Amble around the Village
Starting point: the track beside Thomas's Place, The Terrace, High Street
Stage 1 ( one mile approx)
1. Go through gate into Quinn (the field immediately on your left when you turn into
the lane beside Thomas Place, at the top of High Street), and follow right hand
hedge to gate in opposite
corner
2. Follow footpath behind Gribb View to the wood
3. Climb over stile. Follow path ahead. Where another path crosses turn right and
follow down to the main track. Turn right and follow down to Chard Street.
4. Turn right into Chard Street and walk on right hand side of road for approx 200
yards past Muttlebury's Mead.
(short cut back to the village)
Stage 2 (half a mile approx)
5. Turn left down Blind Lane and follow track down to the stile, next to the weathered
wooden gate. Cross stile.
6. Follow path along hedge. Pass through a gate. Approx 30 yards to right is a stile
(short cut back to the village)
Stage 3 (2.5 miles approx)
7. Follow path along right hand hedge, pass through another gate and walk downhill
to the River Synderford.
8. Cross the wooden footbridge and turn right. Ahead lies a ruined flax mill.
9. Follow path to left of the mill following the fence. Pass through the gate in
the top left hand corner of the field.
10. Keeping the copse to your right cross the field. Pass through the gate beside
the copse.
11. Aim for the footbridge and stile on the other side of the field. It lies diagonally
opposite in the middle of the hedge. Cross the ditch at the stile.
12. Follow the hedge to your right as far as the gate with the crossed footpath sign.
Turn right through gate.
13. Follow path across field towards the river and cross footbridge on to the road
at Synderford.
14. Turn right and follow the road back into Thorncombe, past Saddle Street.
15. Brook Cottage is approx 250 yards on your right at Stonelake. The road continues
back into the centre of the village.
Total length of walk: 4 miles approx. Allow one to one and a half hours
Walk
contributed by Eve Higgs
