FROME & DISTRICT PROBUS WALK
Steeple Ashton/with Pub lunch, The Longs, High St, Steeple Ashton, BA14 6EU
Tuesday 1st July 2025– 10.30 am prompt start for long walk – 11.30 am start for short walk
Please note that the pub has limited parking but there is plenty of parking in the street immediately outside and along from the pub.
We will congregate outside the pub which even has chairs we can sit on. We head a short distance along the road towards Bratton before turning right down Acreshort Lane which starts as a metalled lane and becomes a bridle path. We use further bridle paths to reach East Town Farm and the Hamlet of East Town, enjoying views of the scarp slope of Salisbury Plain. From East Town we follow another metalled lane along the edge of the Rood Ashton Park and down to a stream. The parapet of the bridge over the stream that feeds into Stourton Water will be a handy resting point. We head up along Mudmead Lane and then turn right onto a footpath which takes across fields to the edge of the village before making our way past the church and through the back lanes of the village to the pub.
The walk is 4½miles long with only gentle slopes. There is only one stile as we return to the village and that is easily avoided. The walk is entirely through open country with no protection from rain and only a short length of shade.
The long walk will be led by David Sharrocks. There will also be an easy walk for about an hour and a quarter led by Mel Noller.
Please note: I would like to know who is attending – so please reply specifying long or short walk or just joining us for lunch.
There is no need to pre-order. A link to the menu follows so you can start thinking about your lunch choice. The menu for the day may be slightly different and if so I will try to let you know.
Menu: longssteepleashton.co.uk
Please confirm attendance and let me know whether you will be opting for the long walk or the short walk. Partners are also welcome but please let me know when you confirm attendance.
Please respond to the walk co-ordinator who on this occasion is David Sharrocks.
For any queries and to confirm attendance please contact Dave Sharrocks
mail Dave or phone – 079689832 by Wednesday 25th June