Cadbury Camp Ramble, Bristol Countryside
Loop Walk · Somerset
200
XP
about 42 min walking
Walk through the Somerset countryside & spot wildlife like the silver-washed fritillary butterfly & six-spot burnet moth. Encounter Cadbury Camp Iron Age hillfort & views across the Severn Estuary & Mendips. Uneven surface, gates, stiles & steep gradients
128 m
70 m
11 m
Move along the chart to follow it on the map
Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.
Steep walk
Some very steep ground — marked on the map.
Climb
95 m
Drop
102 m
Highest
120 m
Lowest
14 m
Which way round
Anticlockwise: No steep climbing, comes down 19% for 430 m near the end.
Clockwise: Climbs 19% for 430 m early on, no steep descents.
Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (0.4 km at 10%+, 0.4 km of it 15%+) and come down no steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main descent: km 0.7–2.1, from 117 m to 14 m.
How the 2.6 km splits
Flat
0.5 km
Climbing
0.4 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
0.4 km
Descending
1.3 km