Pennard Hill Farm Walks
Here are a couple of easy walks right from the door of your home. There are many more so do feel free to ask if you’d like any guidance.
1. Top Loop (about 45 mins)
This walk is relatively flat and you won’t get lost. We recommend you wear wellies even though it follows lanes and tracks it can sometimes be a bit wet
Follow the drive over the cattle grid and turn right at the end. 100m or so down the road there will be a track to your left. Take this and follow it all the way to the end. There are some lovely views as you walk along on your right hand side. Turn left up a slight hill when you get to the end of the stoney track and follow this lane around the corner to the right and for about 600m until you get to a sort of junction. Turn left here and carry on past the dairy farm on your left. Follow this lane down a hill and up the other side. Keep going until you reach a T junction with the road. Turn left, down a hill and you should recognise where you are!
2. East Pennard Village and Cheese tasting…! (1hr 45mins)
This is a slightly longer walk than the one above but it’s definitely worth it if you go between 9am and 3pm on a week day as you can visit Batch Farm Cheese Shop home of some delicious award winning local cheddar. Do call before you go – 07938725614
This walk begins at The Lamb Cottage garden. Head diagonally across the field from the Lamb garden and by the edge of the pond you should see a stile. Over here across the field in a relatively straight line but head slightly to your right and you should find another style followed by a fence with blue piping on. Go through here and again head straight across the field slightly to your right. You’ll meet a light stone track. Continue in the direction you were heading and in the bottom left corner of this field you will see another stile which will bring you out on a road. Carry on along this road and follow it as it winds round a corner. It will continue straight for a while and there will be a track on your right. Don’t go down here but carry on along the road.
You’ll come to a T Junction with a sign post pointing right to East Pennard. Turn left and continue along the road until you come to a fork in the road. Take the right turning and you’ll go past Pennard House on your right. Continue down the hill and round to the left (East Pennard Church is on the corner). Follow the road up the other side of the hill and you’ll see Batch Farm Shop on your left.
Carry on up the hill and right at the next junction. Continue down the hill and follow the road until it starts turning left. On your right you should see a footpath sign (see image below) follow the footpath through the woods and out onto the lane on the other side (you can’t get lost!).
Head up the hill and follow the road and is meanders past a small pond on the left and some stone buildings either side of the road. Continue up the hill on the road until you get to a T Junction. Turn left and you should recognise where you are… (!) Follow the road back the way you came, keeping an eye out for the style and footpath sign you climbed over on your way. It’s not very easy to spot (see image below)
Climb over the stile above and head diagonally across this field and the next following the direction of the arrows in the image below to find your way home.
There are many more so do feel free to ask if you’d like any guidance.
3. Pub Walk – The Lion in West Pennard (about 40 mins there, a bit longer on the way back!)
This is a lovely walk with a reward at the end (!)but does include a couple of minutes at the end along the side of the A361 so we do recommend bringing a lead if you’re taking a dog. There is also quite a steep hill (going down on the way there and up on the way back..!) so do bear this in mind.
Turn right at the end of the driveway and after 30m or so you’ll see a stony track to your left. Follow that all the way to the end where you’ll meet a tarmac lane. Head left, up a small incline and round a bend to your right. Carry on along here for about 600m and you’ll see the tarmac lane bend to the left. Don’t go left, carry on straight for another 150m. The road bends right down a hill but carry on straight through a metal gate and join a stoney track through the middle of the field. Follow this, past a barn on your left and a sort of power plant on your right and you’ll go down a hill with trees either side of you. Carry on down the hill and follow the track until it meets the main road. Cross over the road and head left along the pavement. The pub is about 250m on your left.