[1] Start from the Sharpham Road Reservoir car park, and head up onto the path which runs around the reservoir in an anti-clockwise direction towards Axbridge with the playing fields on your right.At the end of the playing fields you will find a path at the bottom of the slope to your right (you may be able to make out the dilapidated remains of a wooden stile) and pass through a gap in the fence. The path leads onto the Strawberry Line where you turn left.
[2] Follow the Strawberry Line until you reach the main road (Axbridge By-Pass A371). At the main road cross over the island with care, and turn left down Cheddar Road towards Axbridge. After some 75 metres you will come across a waymarked path leading off to the right, Wood Lane
[3] Continue along Wood Lane to the by-pass. With great care, cross straight over the by-pass and follow Wood Lane up hill passing through two sets of metal gates. At the second metal gate turn left, and cross a stile leading into woodland. Once over the stile bear right along a track leading up a gentle incline. This will bring you out into a clearing with a path leading off to the right. Ignore the path to the right, and proceed straight ahead bearing slightly left up hill. The hill becomes quite steep at this point, and you climb straight up and look out for a stone stile on your right. Cross this stile, and immediately turn left. The path will eventually bring you out onto a metal road around a quarry at which point turn left.
[4] Follow the track around keeping the quarry on your right. Climb over a stile at the end of the track, and pass through a kissing gate and a single gate on your left. You are now on Callow Drove, and follow this keeping the stone wall on your right until you reach Shute Shelve where you cross a wooden stile and proceed downhill passing over another stile to descend into the valley. The track broadens out with paths waymarked right and left, but ignore these and continue straight ahead until the track reaches the A38 with a petrol filling station over to your right. Bear left and cross over the road at the island, and turn left along a footpath. You will find a waymarked path off to the right before the corner with a lane, and proceed up this and it will bring you out onto the lane opposite the car park and entrance to King's Wood Nature Reserve at the bottom of Winscombe hill.
Cross the lane, and pass through the wooden gate into the Nature Reserve and head uphill until you come out of the wooded area on to open moorland. Proceed straight ahead passing Hill Farm on your right and climb the hill in front. At the top of the hill, and a little to your left you will see a trig point.
It is worth taking a look before continuing on. The views over the Levels, the M5, the Bristol Channel and the Qantocks in the distance to the south can be quite spectacular on a clear day. You are now on Wavering Down.
[5] From Wavering Down, keep the trig point on your left, and staying close to the stone wall on your right, walk straight ahead descend the hill. Crooks Peak will be seen over to your left, and follow the path around ignoring all paths off left and right until you eventually start to climb once again to Crook Peak. You can either scramble up the rocky outcrop or walk round to attain the peak from the right hand-side.
[6] When you have finished admiring the view, head down the hill, directly away from the rocky peak in a south easterly direction towards Axbridge Reservoir. Near the bottom you will find paths leading left and right: ignore these and continue straight ahead downhill until you pass through a wooden gate on your right which leads down into a lay-by and a busy minor road. The lay-by is situated on a blind bend, so great care needs to be exercised in crossing the road and walking down the lane opposite (Rackley Lane).
[7] Follow the lane some 50 metres passing a large house on your left. Here you pass through a metal gate on your left down a farm track for some 100 metres before crossing over a stile on your left into a field. Walk through several fields always keeping the river on your left until you come out on to a road at cross. Turn left over the bridge and immediately right down a track on the other side of the bridge with the river on your right at this point. The track ends at the A38 (a very busy road). Cross straight over, with extreme care, and walk down the track opposite passing a house and yard on your left.
[8] Cross the bridge at the end of the track and pass through a kissing gate immediately on your left. Follow the River Yeo through two fields until you come to a bridge on the left. Pass over the bridge and immediately turn right through a metal gate, ignoring the drove straight ahead. Keep the river on your right until you reach a metal footbridge to take you back over the river. On the other bank, turn left and walk straight ahead until you reach yet another footbridge. Cross the footbridge and follow the drove ahead until you reach the southern edge of the reservoir.
[9] On reaching the reservoir, climb over a stile which can be found under a large tree slightly off to your left. Climb the bank to the path which runs around the reservoir, and turn right in an anti-clockwise direction. Follow this path until you arrive back at the start point in the car park.