Product Description

Explore the beauty of Somerset with this slim-line pocket-sized walking guide with a range of walks to suit the casual walker and the hiker (between three and eight miles in length). 30 walks are fully annotated with places to visit on the way with each one highlighting a particular feature, including wildlife, history and the countryside. Ten extensions are provided also to reveal shortcuts or more challenging possibilites. There is also 10 non-mapped routes that provide simple linear walks such as nature trails or canal towpaths.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #258374 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Very disappointing
I was so disappointed with this book that I deliberately left it behind in my Somerset holiday cottage.

I'm no stranger to using walking books and can usually navigate perfectly well. But my friend and I found it impossible to follow the directions for the walk that we selected from this book. The directions were extremely vague and just did not add up.

The problem was that the landmarks given were very general and there was no indication of distance between them. There was also no indiciation of what direction to walk in. All we had was a small hand drawn map and unhelp instructions to cross field edges etc. After 2 hours of trying different possibilities to get to the farm buildings indicated in the first section we gave up and took the long journey back to the cottage feeling very angry that this book wasted our time.

I wish I'd bought an Ordnance Survey book.

Really good walks
Whilst I would agree that an OS map is useful in conjunction with the book I have, on occasion, actually needed the directions (and description of landmarks) to help out during a walk. I have completed four of the walks in this book and all have been really good, particularly those on Exmoor and the Quantocks. The routes take you past interesting places and some beautiful scenary - very well picked in my opinion. It also often gives extensions to 5mile walks to make them up to 8 which I liked. I will certainly be walking more routes in this book.