Let's Walk - Bridgwater and Taunton Canal - Bathpool to Creech St Michael

About this Event

Why not come along and walk, get active, make new friends on one of our walk leader led walks . All you need to do is book in on this free walking session.

This is a varied walk which takes us to the River Tone, via Hankridge Water Park. Passing under the M5, the footpath then follows the field edge and then onto Ruishton. After a short detour through the village, we rejoin the footpath along the banks of the River Tone, heading downstream to Creech St Michael. We then join the canal towpath and return to Bathpool. We will stop at Chard Junction, where in 1842, the two canals joined. The Chard Canal closed in 1868, having only been in use for 26 years.

Please be advised that the walk is not suitable for wheelchair users or mobility scooter users.

There are no toilet facilities.

Participants should meet at 10:00am at the car park at the end of Dyers Lane, Bathpool, TA2 8BZ.

The What3Words location reference is: remote.handrail.observes

This walk is approximately 3.8 miles (6.2km) and we expect to be back at Bathpool between 12:30pm and 1pm.

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Please book one time slot per person. Please arrive no more than 15 minutes before your booked slot. These sessions are designed for adults and for children from seven years old upwards as an introduction to walking and are easy grade along our amazing towpaths. Learn a bit of history or see some awesome wildlife which is around every turn on our waterways .

Parents and Guardians are required to accompany their children on this walk.

If you can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket via Eventbrite. This event is free for all participants who attend on the day. However, if you have booked on, subsequently fail to cancel and simply don’t show up on the day, you are liable to be invoiced for the standard £10.00 administration fee, chargeable for each ticket booked.

Therefore, if your circumstances do suddenly change and you find you are no longer able to attend, please cancel via the Eventbrite ticket booking system using the link that you can find on your ticket. This can be found at the bottom of your ticket and has a link directly to “cancel my ticket”.

We ask for your co-operation in this matter. This will allow others who would otherwise have regrettably missed out due to lack of space, the opportunity to attend this event.

Donate to Let’s Activity!

The Canal & River Trust’s Let’s Activity campaign is free to attend as part of our work as a waterways and wellbeing charity to help everyone get out, get active and make their lives better by water by learning to paddle. You can now support the work our teams do with children and families and make a donation on our website here.

This event is supported by funds raised by players of People’s Postcode Lottery

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