Walks from 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.

Field paths and flat and easy-going.

Time: 3h30–7h30

Walk details: Railwalks.

Significantly more attractive. A quiet, safe route to the west of the B3090, slightly longer than alternatives but avoiding busy-road crossings and partly alongside Orchardleigh lake.

Time: 5h–10h

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Rural walking through fields, but with a section in the middle that is hard to follow on the ground without GPS or map and compass and can be impassable, with bramble nests and blocked stiles and overgrown hedges. Can be reached part-way at South Brewham.

Time: 5h–10h

Warnings: A section in the middle (between Jerrards Farm and Hentshill Farm, and around Colinshayes to South Brewham) can be completely overgrown and impassable, with blocked stiles, forcing a road diversion. Not a beginner's route; navigation aids are essential.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Field paths and a quiet lane, including a long section of the Macmillan Way, through farmland. Field paths can be planted with high maize or overgrown and some paths around farms have been fenced into paddocks. Follows the Macmillan Way for a longer section; avoids a difficult overgrown stretch behind the Creamery via Lullington Lane.

Time: 4h–8h30

Warnings: Fields can be planted with tall maize forcing a walk around overgrown field margins; footpath signs are absent and the route fenced off into horse paddocks at Hoopers Farm.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Excellent views of Cley Hill. A generally pleasant route following the River Frome, then open countryside on field tracks and quiet roads with crops and before a final 1.75-mile stretch along pavements beside a busy road into Warminster. Excellent views of Cley Hill; a couple of fields are easier to walk round the boundary than across.

Time: 3h30–7h

Warnings: Cattle and 'Beware of the Bull' signs in some fields. Care needed crossing the busy two-lane A361. The footpath has been rerouted around Heath House Farm, which can cause confusion.

Walk details: Slow Ways.