Community Forest Path

Community Forest Path

This 73km circuit around Bristol uses parkland and railbeds where possible within the urban area, and paths in the southern and western hinterland. The path’s website has a Google map. I have mapped it on the Ordnance Survey’s Maps Online on the sectional maps referenced in the box.

Sectional maps

The website, strangely as it comes from a group which wants people to get out of the city and onto the route, is silent about public transport connections. As far as I can make out, such connections, excepting school services, tidal rush-hour-only routes, and one-day-per-week services, may be found at the places listed below. See bustimes.org for details.

  • Bristol Parkway station (also rail) — 0.0km; 0.0km
  • Hambrook — 3.0km; 3.0km
  • Henfield — 5.6km; 8.6km
  • Shortwood Hill — 4.6km; 13.2km
  • Warmley — 3.0km; 16.2km
  • Close Farm — 1.5km; 17.7km
  • Oldland — 1.8km; 19.5km
  • Keynsham — 3.7km; 23.2km
  • Pensford — 9.0km 32.2km
  • Barrow Gurney — 10.1km; 42.3km
  • Long Ashton — 4.5km; 46.8km
  • Clifton — 4.5km; 51.3km
  • Stoke Hill — 2.1km; 52.4km
  • Sea Mills (also rail) — 1.2km; 53.6km
  • Shirehampton Park — 1.7km; 55.3km
  • Henbury — 5.2km; 60.5km
  • Easter Compton — 5.6km; 66.1km
  • Patchway — 4.9km; 71.0km
  • Bristol Parkway station (also rail) — 5.7km; 76.7km

You will note the sparseness of transport options between Pensford and Long Ashton.