After a good breakfast, I left just after 9am and stocked up on lunchtime provisions from Wiveliscombe. After reading the town map, I found the first footpath - the West Deane Way and started the day's walk of wich I had estimated would be about 15 miles.
I walked across farmland and rapidly got frustrated at the lack of decent footpath waymakers which made it hard to find routes and resulted in lots of map reading and retracing steps. So I abandoned the path and found a road!
After a couple of hours, sustinence was required, so I tucked into a danish pastry.
Continued the walk towards West Bagborough where I had arranged to meet two of the Fyne Court rangers at 2pm, however after another frustrating foopath and heavy downpour, I made it a little after 2 soggy and irritable! (sorry guys!)
The rain eventually stopped and Craig and Vicky took me across some excellent footpaths skirting under the Quantock hills.
Arrived at Fyne Court around 5pm and after some food (thank you Fyne Court NT) and rest, calm has been restored.
This is such a fantastic thing to do, good luck from all at Petworth House!
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