Walks from Bath Spa
MapBeautiful walks starting or ending at Bath Spa Station.
Alternatively, view walks near Bath Spa by train.
Bath Spa Circular via Dundas Aqueduct
Disused railway path, tunnels, viaducts, canal towpath, river and historic city centre.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Bath Spa to Frome
Recommended: A great walk. A great walk with a good variety of open fields, woodland, stony tracks and a disused-railway cycle track and with very little on roads. Muddy at some points; a very steep climb with steps from the cycle track up to Combe Down if walked from Frome.
Hilly: a quarter on high ground, rising above the surrounding land.
Woodland: a fifth under tree cover.
Time: 6h–12h
Lunch: A pub at Norton St Philip, mid-route, makes a good coffee stop.
Warnings: A very steep climb with steps from the cycle track up to Combe Down.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Bath Spa to Melksham
Recommended: A long, wheelchair- and pushchair-friendly route that is largely Kennet & Avon Canal towpath, with pavement out of Bath and into Melksham. Avoids the stiles, fields and crops and livestock of the shorter cross-country alternatives.
Waterway: nine tenths along the Kennet and Avon Canal.
Time: 7h30–14h30
Lunch: Bradford on Avon at the mid-point has multiple pubs, restaurants and facilities.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Keynsham to Bath Spa
Recommended: A largely off-road route using the River Avon Trail and the well-maintained Bristol & Bath Railway Path (Sustrans Cycle Route 4), flat, smooth and scenic, with extensive tree shade in summer. The first part out of Keynsham, before the cycle path, has kissing gates and a cattle grid and can be muddy. Follows Sustrans National Cycle Route 4; passes Avon Riverside station on the Avon Valley Railway.
Waterway: two thirds along the River Avon.
Woodland: a third under tree cover.
Time: 3h30–6h30
1 lunch spot: the Bird in Hand
Warnings: The Bristol & Bath Railway Path is a very busy cycle and jogging route — cyclists can pass at speed. The Keynsham end has five kissing gates and muddy ground.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Bath Spa to Bradford-on-Avon
A very beautiful walk full of lush foliage and native flowering plants. Almost entirely along the Kennet & Avon Canal towpath, flat and easy to follow and full of lush foliage and flowering plants. A stone-paved descent to the canal at the Bath end needs caution in the wet; the towpath gets a bit muddy after heavy rain but the underlying surface is stable. Around 30 benches en route.
Waterway: nine tenths along the Kennet and Avon Canal.
Time: 5h–10h30
Lunch: A cafe at Brassknocker Basin, plus opportunities for food, drink and restrooms every few miles, with pubs in the first and last thirds.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Reverse direction: the Saturday Walkers Club.
Trowbridge to Bath Spa
