Walk so187 Dunkery Beacon and Stoke Pero from Luccombe

This 9½ mile, Grade 6 (Moderate), easy-to-follow, hand-crafted walk, complete with GPS Waypoints, starts at Luccombe & will take you about 5½ hrs to complete.

 

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Vital Statistics:

Length: 9½ miles (15km)
Ascent: 2038 ft (621m)
Time: 5½ hours
Grade: Walk Grade 6 (Moderate) Icon

 

 


Route outline for this walk:

 

Luccombe  -  Luccombe Plantation  -  Webbers Post  -  Dicky's Path  -  Hollow Combe  -  Dunkery Beacon  -  Little Rowbarrow  -  Great Rowbarrow  -  Lang Combe Head  -  Cloutsham Gate  -  Stoke Pero Church  -  Prickslade  -  Cloutsham Farm  -  East Water Valley  -  Webbers Post  -  Horner Plantataion  -  Luccombe

 

Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:

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Mountains
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Wainwrights
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Nuttalls
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Dewey
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The highest point of this walk is Dunkery Beacon at 519m (1703ft). Dunkery Beacon is also known as an English Dewey (140th highest in England, 319th in England & Wales) and an English Marilyn (72nd highest in England, 940th highest in the UK). The summit of Dunkery Beacon is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point. Dunkery Beacon is the highest point in the county of Somerset.


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Some Photos and Pictures from Walk so187 Dunkery Beacon and Stoke Pero from Luccombe

In no particular order . . .

My friend Paula on Dunkery Beacon

My friend Paula on Dunkery Beacon

Photo: Judy Platt (1)

Dunkery Beacon from Webbers Post

Dunkery Beacon from Webbers Post

Photo: Harold English (1)


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