Combe Hill Woods

Autumn in Combe Hill Woods - Nr Street, Somerset, UK. ID BR52109

Autumn in Combe Hill Woods – Nr Street, Somerset, UK. ID BR52109

The Combe Hill Wood near Street in Somerset is easy to access, it has a big car park and lots of well managed foot paths.  Perfect for an easy Sunday afternoon stroll.

Autumn in Combe Hill Woods - Nr Street, Somerset, UK. ID BR52253

Autumn in Combe Hill Woods – Nr Street, Somerset, UK. ID BR52253

The woods are part of a mosaic of other woods each owned by different people, companies or conversation organisations.  Walking around it is difficult to know which wood you are actually in.

Autumn in Combe Hill Woods - Nr Street, Somerset, UK. ID BR52268

Autumn in Combe Hill Woods – Nr Street, Somerset, UK. ID BR52268

Coming out the woods to the south, it could have been Kings Wood by now, you reach a patch work of small fields at Gilling Down.

Sheep on the hillside - Looking south from Gilling Down, Nr Street, Somerset, UK. ID BR52336

Sheep on the hillside – Looking south from Gilling Down, Nr Street, Somerset, UK. ID BR52336

In the distance the low autumn sun illuminates the woods.

Autumn Gold - Looking south from Gilling Down, Nr Street, Somerset, UK. ID BR52411

Autumn Gold – Looking south from Gilling Down, Nr Street, Somerset, UK. ID BR52411

And finally…

It may be one and quarter miles to Butleigh, but in the opposite direction.  This old finger post has lost its top fingers and the one remaining is pointing in the wrong direction.

Butleigh 1 1/4 - Wickham's Cross, Somerset, UK. ID BR52457

Butleigh 1 1/4 – Wickham’s Cross, Somerset, UK. ID BR52457

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