It was lovely to reach the quieter road at the top of Almondsbury. Before heading down the footpath I went a few steps beyond, to see the great view across the Severn estuary with its two huge bridges. The footpath down Almondsbury Hill was quite steeply downhill. For those heading up this hill, there are a couple of benches where you can get your breath back....

Mary Oz

The inaccurate part of the plot was along the busy main road, Three Brooks Lane, past the Tesco petrol station, close to the suggested entrance to Willow Brook shopping centre where the route ends....

Mary Oz

I walked the route from Aust to Bradley Stoke. The route heads out of Aust along a track and reaches an area where a new wetland is being created as part of major flood defence works on the River Severn. Just north of the M4, the Slow Way joins a track over the motorway, arriving at a minor road by Greenditch Farm. There is then getting on for a mile of (safe) walking along the pavement by this major road and a crossing of a motorway junction (at traffic lights), and another big roundabout (ditto) before the route takes to pathways through the modern housing estates to get to the massive shopping centre at Bradley Stoke....

Mockymock

I undertook this route, together with Filton to Bristol. It is a route between one urban node and another. There is very little to be said other than it is an acceptable route to get from a to b...

Brian

After several rainy autumn weeks and a deluge which was just abating as I started out, the section along the River Frome Walkway and the bridleway on up from there back into the village was, as promised by a previous reviewer, muddy, with some big patches of standing water to boot, but my feet (in heavy walking boots) just about stayed dry. And ongoing on from the B4058 (where I sat out the next sharp shower in a bus shelter), it is, also as promised, a nice walk across the fields....

Mockymock

The route is definitely good enough to be part of the network, I would walk it again and suggest it to others....

Sara Green

Heading north of hatchet Road following the Brook and the nature reserve has sections not suitable for wheels and in winter or after periods of rain can get very muddy so trail shoes or walking boots would be required....

Jen Shepherd

Although there is a fair amount of walking through wheat fields and lush mowing grass, and road noise from the A38, M5 and M4 rumbles around it at various intensities almost the whole way, this area has lots of pretty little copses and old hedge lines full of mature trees, and the undulating country offers some long views west over the River Severn and east towards the Cotswold Hills along the way. The route skirts the town through playing fields and some sheep-grazed pastures, crosses the B-road and takes a municipal bin-flanked path around the back of the leisure centre before heading out into the open fields and climbing a gentle hill up to Alveston. The path east around the back of the houses after crossing the lane a little further on looks as if it might get a bit overgrown in the summer, but also look to be walked regularly, as do the ongoing paths through the arable fields and pastures on the way to Rudgeway. Beyond Rudgeway, the route heads along and then gently down a hill to cross the M5 and there are long views east, with three big wind turbines in the foreground. Once over the motorway, there is more arable and grassy fields, with more views around....

Mockymock

Streams and grown-out hedges are still present beside some of the roads and the route makes good use of these more spacious, greener-edged thoroughfares as well as a couple of footpaths through pockets of woodland. There are no barriers but in mid January, the suggested route south of the brook through Three Brooks nature reserve, near the Bradley Stoke end (roughly what3words ended.wings.vocal to rabble.filled.potato), was pretty muddy underfoot and no good for wheels or light footwear, while the metal bridge across the stream at the eastern was very narrow, so I suggest wheelers and the less well shod use the surfaced path on the north side instead....

Mockymock

This route uses tarmac footpaths and quiet roads through Bradley Stoke, before utilising footpaths over open fields to get to Winterbourne. Once there, a short walk down a residential road to join the Frome Valley Walkway to Frampton Cotterell. This can be muddy in wet weather, so be prepared! The path passes through a community orchard, before finishing at The Globe pub :) An enjoyable stop before returning to Bradley Stoke. This route is accurate, safe and should be verified....

Tracie_Bennett

Current diversions due to house building on previous green fields :( A direct route with most of it on tarmac footpaths through housing estates. A brief respite whilst walking through the Green corridor that has been left in Bradley Stoke....

Tracie_Bennett

A generally good route, currently partly diverted due to development work....

HCULSHAW

Although the more direct route could be by the road side (pavement all the way) the suggested route is much more nicer as the road got a lot of noise and traffic. In Frampton Cotterell-Winterbourne there is a pub that can be seen from the end of the path with a big garden...

RafaRey

Inevitably much is along busy roads, but always on pavements with crossings. Nice bit through a nature reserve....

Gill Carter