Surprisingly, A Proper Coastal Walk
I don't associate Weston-Super-Mare with the coast. Usually, its just wide open mud you can see. Yet here we are, at the far Northern Extremities for a really fine walk. The tide was in, so this short walk compared with many coastal walks completed in Devon and Cornwall.
Parking at the National Trust Car Park. £15 in credit, 6 weeks in to membership. A climb to the trig point at Middle Hope.
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| Striding up to Sand Point |
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| Looking down over Sand Bay |
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| And inland to the tail end of a storm |
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| The grassy banks of Middle Hope |
St Thomas's Head - where the Severn Estuary becomes the Bristol Channel - is littered with stone walls. Built by Napoleonic Prisoners of War, history fans. A drop through crop fields before an agricultural walk across the flat lands.
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| Woodspring Priory on the right hand side |
Sand Dunes taking us back to the car park, where the ice cream van doesn't make an entry on a Monday lunchtime. The only disappointment of a delightful little loop.
Walk Details
Distance - 4 Miles
Walk Inspiration - Somerset, 40 Town and Country Walks
Geocaches - 1
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