Walking in Somerset

James Roberts finished work on his guide to Romania just before his untimely death in 2002. Since the revolution he had spent more than half of every year in Romania and had travelled throughout the country. An experienced solo backpacker here, as well as in the Himalaya, the Atlas and other areas, he worked as a leader of mountain-walking and wildlife groups. Married to Elena, a Romanian, James spoke the language and had an unrivalled knowledge of the country, having explored every massif solo on foot. With his detailed knowledge of the human and natural history of the country, he was an expert interpreter of the Romanian scene.

The Highlands of the West: Exmoor, The Quantocks & the Brendons Luxborough & Lype Hill The Washford Valley The Land of Lorna Doone & the Smugglers' Coast Kilve Shore & Stringston Parish Holford & Hodder's Combe Wills Neck A Walk from Dunster The Haddeo Valley & Haddon Hill A Short Walk from Dulverton Winsford Hill, the Barle Valley & Draydon Knap Selworthy, Bossington Hill & Hurlstone Point Woods & Hills of Exmoor's Coast Horner & Stoke Pero Somerset's Ultima Thule A Simonsbath Walk The Mendips and North Somerset Black Down & Burrington Combe Dolebury Warren & Mendip Lodge Wood Crook Peak, Crompton Hill & Wavering Down A Short Walk above Cheddar Goblin Combe, Brockley Wood & Wrington Hill Butcombe, Nempnett Thrubwell & Breach Hill Failand & Windmill Hill Priddy & the Mendip Plateau Compton Wood, Cleve Hill & Browning's Tump A Short Walk from Bath The Limpley Stoke Valley & Midford Brook The Chew Valley Behind Wookey Hole Orchardleigh, Buckland Dinham & Barrow Hill Launcherley Hill & Worminster Sleight South-West Somerset: Taunton Deane & the Blackdown Hills Castle Neroche, Staple Fitzpaine & the Woods of the Blackdown Hills Pitminster, Corfe & Staple Hill Hills of the Devon Boundary Langford Budville & Kittisford Between the Parrett and the Brue Corton Denham to Cadbury Castle Shepton Montague, Bratton Seymour, Yarlington & Lodge Hill Milborne Port & Purse Caundle King Alfred's Tower & Stourhead Bruton, South Brewham & the Hardway Muchelney Abbey & the Levels Glastonbury Tor & West Pennard Chedzoy, Sutton Mallet & Westonzoyland Montacute, Hedgecock Hill & Ham Hill Long Distance Paths in Somerset The South West Coastal Path: Minehead to Lynmouth Harbour The Two Moors Way: Ivybridge, Devon to Lynmouth, Devon The Three Peaks Circuit The Leland Trail: King Alfred's Tower to Ham Hill The Liberty Trail: Ham Hill to Lyme Regis, Dorset The Mendip Way: From to Weston-Super-Mare The River Parrett Trail: Chedinngton to Steart The Two Rivers Way: Keynsham to Congresbury The Limestone Link: Cold Ashton to Shiphams A Somerset Way: Minehead to Bath A Bristol Countryway: Slimbridge, Glos to Weston-Super-Mare A Severn to Solent Walk: Burnham on Sea to Lymington, Hants Away to Avalon: Old Sarum, Wilts to Glastonbury The Exmoor Ridgeway: Wheddon Cross to Chapman Barrows The Summits of Somerset and Avon: Minehead to Chepstow The Monarch's Way: Stratford-upon-Avon to Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex The Macmillan Way: Oakham, Rutland, to Abbotsbury, Dorset Author's Suggestions A Quantock Traverse: Williton to TauntonA Great Forest of Selwood: Frome to Gillingham, Dorset Hidden Valley of the River Frome: Frome to Freshford