Walks & Rides

Staple Hill Easy Access Trail walk

This is the highest point in the Blackdown Hills, from here you can see spectacular views across the Vale of Taunton. On a clear day you can see all the way to Wales!  As the name suggests, Staple Hill Easy Access Trail allows everyone, including those with limited mobility, to enjoy the beautiful countryside the Blackdown Hills National Landscape has to offer.

Difficulty: Easy

Distance: 0.5 miles (0.8 km) 

Getting there

Walk Start/Finish: Staple Hill car park

Grid Reference: ST247160

Nearest Postcode: TA20 3RA 

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Lat | Long: 50.938507 | -3.0730519 

Parking: Staple Hill car park

Rest stops

viewpoints have picnic benches and seating

Points of interest

The woodland at Castle Neroche is great fun for your family to explore – including your four-legged friends! Peek through the trees for spectacular views. 

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Easy difficulty. Distance 0.5 miles (0.8km)

This is the highest point in the Blackdown Hills, from here you can see spectacular views across the Vale of Taunton. On a clear day you can see all the way to Wales! 

As the name suggests, Staple Hill Easy Access Trail allows everyone, including those with limited mobility, to enjoy the beautiful countryside the Blackdown Hills National Landscape has to offer. The kissing gates are big enough for wheelchairs and pushchairs, there is a wide, compacted pathway with no steep gradients and the viewpoints have picnic benches and seating. 

Staple Hill is part of the Forestry England woodlands and one of the points on the Staple Fitzpaine Herepath. 

The woodland at Castle Neroche is great fun for your family to explore – including your four-legged friends! Peek through the trees for spectacular views. 

Download Staple Hill Easy Access Trail map and instructions [pdf]

More about Staple Hill Easy Access Trail on the Forestry England website

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