Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
hamlet of Pennsylvania (grid ref: 744733), where there's the possibility of
accommodation and refreshments.
LIMESTONE LINK PATH
As its name might suggest, the Limestone Link Path connects the Cotswold Way at
Cold Ashton with the West Mendip Way, 36 miles (58km) later. Descending St Cather-
ine's Valley below Cold Ashton, it then follows the Kennet and Avon Canal to Dundas
Aqueduct, and continues to the Mendips.
Cross the road with great care onto a driveway opposite. This continues
as a bridleway which soon takes you along the left-hand edge of a field. At
the far end go through a kissing gate on the left, and walk parallel with a
road until you come to another kissing gate giving onto Gorse Lane. Cross
to the western side where you walk ahead along a track which takes you
into Dyrham Wood. Ignoring a path curving left, wander down the slope
through the wood.
Note
the 'message box' fitted to a post beside a spring. Inside
there's a notebook containing comments on and impressions of the Cotswold Way left by
other walkers.
Continue through the wood to emerge on the far side into a
sloping field with another fine view ahead. Wander down the slope to a
woodland shaw and a footbridge over a stream.
Now rise across a hilly field veering a little to the left to join a track
beside a hedgerow. Maintain direction alongside the hedgerow to a gap,
through which you pass a pond on your right, then come into a field and
walk across it to a path tightly enclosed by trees and bushes. Through a
kissing gate the path continues ahead, following a hedgerow to a minor
road leading into Dyrham village. Turn left on the road, and when you
come to a junction shortly after, bear right to pass the gateway of Dyrham
House on your right.
