Footloose303 Walking Group Footloose303 Walking Group
  • Home
  • Calendar
  • Forum
    • Footloose admin
    • Walks
    • Pubs and tea rooms
    • Recipes
    • Equipment
    • Holidays and accommodation
    • Fitness, physio etc.
    • Anything else
  • Home /
  • Calendar /
  • Walk - Southern Quantocks - Karen

P1030819 gotton woods

Walk - Southern Quantocks - Karen

  • On 04/05/2025

SUNDAY.  Karen will lead a walk from Kingston St Mary, heading via bluebells to Cothelstone Hill and back. 

This 8 mile walk encompasses the best of English countryside. Starting from Kingston St Mary, we head through the park historic estate of Tetton House with some splendid trees, then up through a quintessentially English green grassy valley, through bluebell woods and up to the top of Cothelstone hill with magnificent views. Down again through the Cothelstone estate, where at the bottom we can visit a 14th century divination well where virgins used divination to discover their future husbands. Lunch at Cothelstone church, then the footpath leads us through the grounds of the Elizabethan Cothelstone manor. Back through gently undulating fields, Tetton estate again, and finishing for Tea at Kingston St Mary.

Although only 8 miles, there is a 1,100 ft ascent and descent – all in the first half of the walk, then gently undulating for the second half.

 

walk quantocks

Menu

  • About us
  • Leading walks
  • Safe walking
  • Members' home
  • Meet points
  • Tea rooms etc locations
  • Walking routes
  • Photos

Upcoming events

Swell

Walk - Swell bluebells and herons - Jane & Annie
  • On 26/04/2026

SUNDAY.  Jane L & Annie will lead an 8/9 mile circular walk from Swell Wood RSPB reserve, taking in Isle Brewers, Isle Abbots and Fivehead. The gradient ...

P1030819 gotton woods

Walk - Stoke St Mary - Maggie
  • On 03/05/2026

SUNDAY.  Maggie will be leading a 10 mile walk from Stoke St Mary.  Lovely valleys and bluebell woods around the southern Taunton Deane area.

Colyton 1

Walk - Colyton - Judi G
  • On 10/05/2026

SUNDAY .  Judi G will be leading a walk from Colyton, around the hills of this part of East Devon and along parts of the East Devon Way.  The countryside ...

Calendar

  • Walks
  • Social
  • Away weekends