[1] Start by the former New Inn (now closed) on the green. Walk up the road away from the former pub on the left and take the first turning on the left, into a `No Through Road`. Walk up past a number of houses, and where the tarmac ends, climb the stile into a field and follow the waymark directing you straight ahead. Cross this, and three further fields to climb a stile on the far side of this fourth field, where a wall joins from the right.
[2] Continue ahead over two further stiles, then walk with an old boundary on your left, continuing ahead to reach a wooden stile in the far left corner of the field.
[3] Ignore the stone stile on the left, but climb the wooden one and with the vista opening up in front of you, go ahead towards the trees and further stile. Cross and go slightly right on a well-defined path, losing height, to another stile in the wall ahead. Cross and follow the waymark in the same direction down the hill. Don’t get carried away on this easy descent though! As you pass a line of bushes on the left (an old field boundary) veer half-left, towards a Dutch barn near the lower left corner of the field. Pass through the gate in the field corner, then keep left to reach a lane.
[4] Walk ahead, turning left into Stancombe Lane. Pass Mares Lane left, Drappel Lane right, then at the fork in the road go right into Free Hill (in summer the road sign is likely to be overgrown). Continue to a junction with telephone box and here turn right, then immediately left into School Hill. In a few yards turn right into The Hollow and follow this lane for about 400 yards, passing Hollow Farm on the left, then looking for a stile in the hedge on the right.
[5] Cross, and climb to the top left corner of the field walk and on reaching this, go left to climb a stone stile. Now go ahead across the top of a succession of fields, passing a brace of telephone masts on the right and eventually exiting right, onto a lane. Turn left and walk to the main road (A371). It is dangerous to walk along this road, so the following short diversion along a couple of minor roads is advised.
[6] Cross with care to a minor road opposite – Millway – and follow the road to a junction where you turn right and walk up to the main road. Look for a telephone box over the road on the left, and walk up until you are opposite, and and cross, again with great care, to a path running along a stream to come out onto Scaddens Lane and walk for 300 yards, taking a left turn beyond Scaddens Farm, opposite a wooden field gate on the right.
[7] In a few yards, veer left onto a track. At the track end, climb the stile into a meadow surrounded by woodland. Go straight ahead, climbing steadily up the centre of the field, to a stile by a field gate at the top. Beyond the stile you are in the Rodney Stoke Nature Reserve. Follow the path winding up between the trees to exit at the top of the Reserve via a stile.
[8] Now go half-right towards trees on the horizon, then aim for the left of the hedgerow to a faded yellow-painted stone stile. You join the West Mendip Way here. Climb the stile then go slightly right to cross another, then walk ahead, picking up the wall on your right.
(A) Over the wall on your right is an Iron-Age earthwork enclosure, largely destroyed by small quarries. The steep limestone grassland slopes are a perfect place for wildflowers, and butterflies abound here (the area is managed by Butterfly Conservation), and in season, Small and Chalkhill Blues, Grayling, Brown Argus, Marbled White and Dark Green Fritillary may be seen. From this elevated point of 870 ft., there are fine views over the Somerset Levels, across the Bristol Channel to Wales, and south to Glastonbury Tor and Dorset.
Continue, crossing a further stile with a house to your right then head out across a series of fields following the clear waymarks and climbing a final stile to reach a road.
[9] Cross to the lane directly opposite and follow it to a point where it kinks left. Here, look right for a stone stile by a gate. Climb this and directed by the waymark, cross the field to another stile.
[10] In this field, continue in the same direction, veering slightly to the left and eventually joining the left boundary. Continue to the field corner where a stile affords access to the road at a junction. Follow the road right to the village of Priddy and your starting point.