The Bristol Hiking Meetup Group

River Frome & Stoke Park Walk

January 5 · 10:30 AM
Oldbury Court Estate Carpark

We will walk from Oldbury Court Park Estate, down the Frome Valley to Snuff Mills,

Oldbury Court is a beautiful estate, combining woodland and riverside paths with historic parkland , the estate is a great place for a family day out, featuring big green spaces and picnic areas, and is popular with walkers for its varied landscape and panoramic views.

Snuff Mills Park is located about 3 miles north east of Bristol, between Eastville Park and Oldbury Estate helping to form a continuous green corridor along the river. The parks’ name originates from the mill on the site, part of which still remains having been restored in the 1980’s. The mill was used to grind corn rather than snuff and it is thought that ‘Snuff Mills’ originates from the nickname of the miller ‘Snuffy Jack’ whose smock was always covered in snuff. There are a number of Pennant Sandstone quarries in this part of the valley including the one behind the Mill.

There are a number of pleasant woodland and riverside walks in the park and a community garden. There is also a small privately run tea shop and snack bar (They sell really recommended delicious bread pudding) at the entrance to the park on River View where there is a public car park. A pretty row of old, Victorian, quarryman’s cottages can be seen at the entrance to the park. Plenty of options for all the keen photographers to take plenty of good photos.

Along the way,my fellow experienced Walk For Health Walk Leader Stuart, will tell us any local history & interesting points of interest making the walk much more enjoyable.

From there we then walk the circuit of Historic Stoke Park where the yellow Dower House

can be seen from the M32.

You may have done several walks before at Stoke Park and this will be an added bonus walk which would follow on from where we left off or still really interesting for any new walkers who are not familiar with this location.

We will walk back down to the Frome Valley up to Fishponds to satisfy our hungry bellies for Lunch at the Wetherspoons The Van Dyck Pub.

Approximately 5 miles walk.

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Katrina Coleman

It was a great walk among many to come. On behalf of Stuart & I, I'm glad you all enjoyed the walk.

0 · January 29
Mike Howell

Excellent

0 · January 6
mark crew

Really great walk and a real boost for me. This is a great start to getting my physical and mental health back on track. Hopefully will be many walks to come.

1 · January 5
- Katrina Coleman
  
  Will be good to see you on both another social walk & a WFH walk on a Tuesday with Stuart & I.
  
  0 · January 5
Julia

Great walk today, really enjoyed it. As fellow walkers I thought you might be interested in the campaign against the proposed bus route at Bristol Harbourside. I've enjoyed numerous walks in the area and it is blissfully traffic free at present and it would be a shame to spoil that. If anyone is interested there is a petition on the link below against the proposed bus route for that area. I've also added a few other links giving more information.

http://www.change.org/en-GB/pet...

http://stopbrt2.org.uk/ This site shows several pictures of what it will look like if plans go ahead

http://www.Save Bristol Harbour - stop BRT2

1 · January 5
Andi

A pleasant day, nice to walk along the Frome and to see Snuff Mills with some good company thank you Kat and Stuart for organising everything.

1 · January 5
Phil Cheatle

Really enjoyed getting out and about. Good to meet you all. The walk was very well led, so many thanks to Kat and Stuart

1 · January 5
- LordGrover
  
  Ditto, my grateful thanks to both, and all fellow walkers of course.
  
  2 · January 5
Lucy

Great walk, nice gentle pace for the new year

1 · January 5