12/08/24 - Sand Point and Middle Hope, Somerset

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.

Striding up to Sand Point

Looking down over Sand Bay

And inland to the tail end of a storm

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. 

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