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<div>The walk starts and ends in the carpark at Charterhouse, up past Burrington Coombe which we <a href="http://kitwallace.co.uk/walks/xquery/home.xq?walk=2015-01-29"> last visited 3 years ago </a> The walk is taken from <a href="http://www.mendipsociety.org.uk/images/walking/Favourite_Walk_4.pdf">the Mendip Society</a> but modified so that we walk up through Long Wood. Lunch at the Seymour Arms in Blagdon. </div> <div> From the carpark, we walked down the valley, passing the entrance to Glebe Swallet. Down Velvet Bottom Nature Reserve and then right up through Long Wood Nature Reserve (celendines, ladies smock and wood anenomies but too early for the ramsons and bluebells). Up over the fields and bridleway to the masts and then back to the mine workings and the condensor labyrinth. A lovely walk and the showers held off till we got back in the cars. </div> <div>Total distance 4.4 miles - 125 m rise from bottom of Velvet Bottom to the masts.</div> <div>References <ul> <li><a href="http://mikek.org.uk/friendsrlm/03_charterhouse.pdf">History of Charterhouse</a> </li> <li><a href="https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mendips/minerals/Mins_Mines_2.htm">BGS- Minerals amd Mines </a> </li> <li><a href="https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mendips/Industrial_archaeology/indarch.htmlm">BGS- Industrial archeology </a> </li> <li><a href="https://ougs.org/southwest/event-reports/charterhouse-lead-mines-216/">OU - Charterhouse Lead Mines</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.somersetwildlife.org/cheddar_complex.html">Somerset Wildlife Trust</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.ubss.org.uk/resources/proceedings/vol19/UBSS_Proc_19_1_43-65.pdf">The habitat and origin of lead ore in Grebe Swallet Mine, Charterhouse-on-Mendip, Somerset </a> </li> </ul> </div>