The Coleridge Way Route Guide
Walk from the Quantock Hills to Exmoor (36 miles)
The Coleridge Way route is waymarked with Quill signs and can be followed by using the detailed route guides and maps in this section.These route guides are subject to change as the route is improved and developed. Please check you have the latest version before setting out. The word document on the right is dated at the bottom.
Ordnance Survey maps covering the route are:
1:25 000 OL9 Exmoor
1:25 000 140 Quantock Hills and Bridgwater
1:50 000 181 Minehead and Brendon Hills
The route guides divide the Coleridge Way into four sections:Click on the link below to download route guide | Click on the map below to see the route map - you could highlight these onto your own OS maps | Click on the link below to download a word document of the route text |
Nether Stowey to Bicknoller (9.2 miles)A steady climb for the first 2.5 miles, then downhill to Holford and generally undulating to Bicknoller, with a few short sharp descents and climbs in and out of small combes. Much of this section also follows a route signed the Quantock Greenway. |
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Bicknoller to Roadwater(9.5 miles)Generally level walking to Monksilver, then a strenuous one mile climb up Bird's Hill that can be muddy. Thereafter, downhill to Sticklepath followed by a fairly level walk above the Roadwater Valley to Roadwater village | Bicknoller to Roadwater | |
Roadwater to Wheddon Cross (8.4 miles)A strenuous section with two major climbs. From Roadwater a long climb through Langridge Woods onto farmland, followed by a downhill section to Luxborough. Another long climb pst Newcombe Farm to the highest point on the route at Lype Hill and then gently down hill to Wheddon Cross. |
| Roadwater to Wheddon Cross |
Wheddon Cross to Porlock (8.9 miles)Initially down hill through woods with a tricky steep descent into Mansley Combe, then a steep climb onto open moorland. Generally fairly level walking across the moor apart from one short sharp descent and climb in and out of Hanny Combe. From Webber's Post it is down hill for 2.5 miles to Porlock where the route ends at the Visitor Centre. |
| Wheddon Cross to Porlock |
If the Visitor Centre in Porlock is open when you arrive, please go in and record your comments on the walk in the Visitors Book. You will always get a friendly welcome and they will happily take your photograph and present you with a certificate. The Centre is open from 28th March - 1st November (Mon-Sat) 10:00-17:00 (Sun) 10.00-13:00 and from 1st November (Tue-Fri) 10:30-13:00 (Sat) 10.00-14:00.
