(S/E) Start from the car park by the Information Centre. Walk toward B3090. When you reach it, turn right on it and walk up. When the main road starts bending on the left carry on straight on Stony Street up to the junction with Catherine Hill.
(1) Walk up on your right-hand side onto Catherine Hill to the junction with the A362 to Radstock by the Artisan pub on Badcox. Turn right then right again down Castle Street. After a few meters take the first left on York Street. This street will become Trinity Row.
(2) Continue to the end, passing Holy Trinity church on the right. Continue onto the footpath passing terraced houses on the left and onto modern housing in Upper Whatcombe. Continue and turn left to walk up on Whatcombe Road up to the junction with the A362 Vallis Road.
At the junction, turn right crossing Vallis Road and at the junction with Wallington way, follow the footpath on the left. Fork left passing a curved terrace of houses to the left and cross The Leys, descending straight ahead into woodland by Vallis Farm. You will then reach and follow the river keeping straight ahead.
(3) Cross the footbridge over the Mells River and continue on the path to the left always following the river. A broad and well-beaten footpath leads along the river to a minor road crossing the river by a stone bridge at Great Elm.
(4) Leave the riverside and walk up Fordbury Bottom. There are two paths here which lead in the same direction, one lower down the hill and the other towards the top of the hill at the edge of woodland. They join up so it really does not matter which you choose. Continue to Broadway, the road from Frome to Mells.
Cross Broadway road and follow the path on the other side which disappears into woods up Murder Combe. Continue for 400m to a junction of paths by a field boundary. Follow the path on the right which skirts along woodland to the right.
Pass two fields and follow the path across the third, gently up hill. At the top of the hill go into a smaller field. Aim for the south west corner of the field, with Whatley parish church in sight, and then across another even smaller field to the corner of the church yard.
(5) Cross the church yard and out onto Whatley road passing Manor Farm. Turn left here and walk down Whatley road for a short distance and then down the path to the right.
Pass farm buildings to the left and walk towards the back of residential housing. At the back of the houses go right and walk south west along the waymarked MacMillan Way to the far side of the field.
(6) Go left here and then left along the field boundary to a narrow lane. Cross the lane and continue down the track into woodland on the far side down to the stream along the bottom of Nunney Combe.
When reaching the stream, follow the well-defined path down the stream all the way to Nunney village on your right, passing Combe Farm just outside the village. There is a lot to see in Nunney.
(8) After visiting Nunney, return to the farm road to Combe Farm and fork right up Donkey Lane. Follow the rather zig-zag path across fields for nearly 2Km to Critchill Farm. Always keep straight ahead even in the golf club.
(9) At the golf entrance, turn left on the public road at Critch Hill. The quietest and most pleasant return to Frome is on the right and up Whitemill Lane. Pass Whitemill Farm to the right then continue onto Whitemill Road once you reach Somerset road turn right.
Then, turn left when you reach Butts Hill and continue to the junction where Butts Hill meets Keyford. There turn left and follow Bath street and walk down the hill to return to the starting point of the walk. (S/E)
