There’s a lot more to Somerset than scrumpy cider cheddar cheese and the Glastonbury Festival. It’s a county of contrasts: moorlands and marshes castle and caverns cheese and strawberries gorges and tors. With a variety of landscapes extraordinary buildings fascinating wildlife and history round every corner – not to mention some of the friendliest people you’ll ever meet – Somerset is simply asking to be explored. This selection of 40 circular walks will help you make the most of the uplands and lowlands woodlands and wetlands of Somerset – ‘the land of the summer people’.



