Walks you can reach from Keynsham by train
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Bath Spa Circular via Dundas Aqueduct (Somerset)
9 minutes direct from Keynsham.
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).
Westbury to Warminster (Wiltshire)
45 minutes direct from Keynsham.
Chalk downland, Iron Age hillforts, five hills, Salisbury Plain military range, abandoned village and sweeping views over Wiltshire and Somerset.
Warnings: MOD closures apply.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Bath Spa to Frome (Somerset)
9 minutes direct from Keynsham.
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.
Prior Park Landscape Garden: Beautiful and intimate 18th-century landscape garden in Bath with one of only four Palladian bridges found in the world (National Trust; 1h30 to visit).
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 (Somerset)
9 minutes direct from Keynsham.
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.
Bath Skyline: Wide open space overlooking the World Heritage City of Bath (National Trust).
Bathampton Meadows: Green corridor linking the historic city of Bath to the countryside (National Trust).
Lunch: Bradford on Avon at the mid-point has multiple pubs, restaurants and facilities.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Bath Spa to Bradford-on-Avon (Somerset)
9 minutes direct from Keynsham.
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.
Bathampton Meadows: Green corridor linking the historic city of Bath to the countryside (National Trust).
Bath Skyline: Wide open space overlooking the World Heritage City of Bath (National Trust).
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 (Wiltshire)
30 minutes direct from Keynsham.
Beautiful walk; fantastic. Canal towpath with fields.
Prior Park Landscape Garden: Beautiful and intimate 18th-century landscape garden in Bath with one of only four Palladian bridges found in the world (National Trust; 1h30 to visit).
Bath Skyline: Wide open space overlooking the World Heritage City of Bath (National Trust).
1 lunch spot: Prior Park Landscape Garden kiosk
Warnings: Short stretch on a fast-traffic road with limited verge.
Walk details: Railwalks.
Warminster to Bath Spa (Wiltshire)
9 minutes direct from Keynsham.
Long views. Hill and moorland paths and with substantial climbs.
Prior Park Landscape Garden: Beautiful and intimate 18th-century landscape garden in Bath with one of only four Palladian bridges found in the world (National Trust; 6h30 in; 1h30 to visit).
1 lunch spot: Prior Park Landscape Garden kiosk (6h30 in)
Walk details: Railwalks.
Bristol Temple Meads to Nailsea and Backwell (Somerset)
8 minutes direct from Keynsham.
Freshford to Trowbridge (Somerset)
15 minutes direct from Keynsham.
Freshford to Avoncliff (Somerset)
15 minutes direct from Keynsham.
Picturesque; beautiful countryside. Canal towpath with fields and with substantial climbs.
Walk details: Railwalks.
Freshford to Bradford-on-Avon (Somerset)
15 minutes direct from Keynsham.
Picturesque; magnificent. Canal towpath with woodland, fields and flat and easy-going.
Waterway: four fifths along the Kennet and Avon Canal.
Walk details: Railwalks.
Bradford-on-Avon to Chippenham (Wiltshire)
30 minutes direct from Keynsham.