Walk Buckland Dinham and Great Elm from Mells
Lovely walk in gentle rolling hills & valleys
This 5¾ mile, Grade 3 (Easy), easy-to-follow, hand-crafted walk, complete with GPS Waypoints, starts at Mells & will take you about 2¾ hrs to complete.
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Detailed walk route map PDF | |
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| Walk No.: | so114 | |
| Length: | 5¾ miles (9.5km) | |
| Ascent: | 600 ft (183m) | |
| Time: | 2¾ hours | |
| Grade: |  | |
Route outline for this walk:
Mells - Wadbury Hill Fort - Mells Stream - Wadbury Valley - Great Elm - The Macmillan Way - Buckland Brook - Buckland Dinham - Clareham Lane - Hill House Farm - Conduit Bridge - Mells
Points of Interest/Notes on this walk:
English poet Siegfried Sassoon CBE, MC (1886 - 1967) is buried in Mells churchyard.
Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:
 0 English Mountains |
 0 Wainwrights |
 0 English Nuttalls |
 0 English Deweys |
 0 Wainwright Outlying Fells |
 0 Marilyns |
 0 Bridgets |
National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:
Part of this walk follows a section of The Macmillan Way, a 467km (290 miles) linear footpath connecting Boston in Lincolnshire, England with Abbotsbury in Dorset, England. The Macmillan Way is waymarked by a green bow. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Macmillan Way.
Free-to-access Interactive Walk Planning Maps:
1:25,000 scale OS Explorer Map (orange/yellow covers):
An Interactive Walk Planning Map for OS Explorer 142 Shepton Mallet & Mendip Hills East is not currently available
1:50,000 scale OS Landranger Map (pink/magenta covers):
An Interactive Walk Planning Map for OS Landranger 183 Yeovil & Frome, Shaftesbury & Shepton Mallet is not currently available
Some Photos and Pictures from Walk Buckland Dinham and Great Elm from Mells
In no particular order . . .
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