Length 3.5 miles, 5.6km. Scroll to the bottom of this page for a map...

When out walking, please remember the Country Code...

Enjoy the countryside and respect its life and work. Guard against all risks of fire. Fasten all gates. Keep dogs under close control, Keep to public paths across farmland. Use gates and stiles to cross fences, hedges and walls, Leave livestock, crops and machinery alone. Take your fitter home. Help to keep all water clean. Protect wildlife, plants and trees. Take special care on country roads. Make no unnecessary noise.

Sun Life Lake
A new pathway winds round the artificial lake. The water tapped for the lake is also the source of the little stream which winds its way behind New Road to Stoke Brook. The path follows the route of the old church path to Harry Stoke Road. The public.

'The Paddocks'
Walk along Harry Stoke Road 50 metres to the post box in the wall. Over the wall is the old  farm pool, with a resident moorhen. The big farm building was one of several in the Stoke Gifford Parish. Harry Stoke Farm was renamed The Paddocks early this century.

Harry Stoke Colliery
Harry Stoke colliery was a post-nationalisation venture which was intended to open up the north Bristol area of the coalfield. The colliery was a pair of drifts which passed through the beds at a gradient of 1 in 3. It was also intended to sink shafts once the drifts had reached the deeper measures, and thus the Harry Stoke Mine was to have been the beginning of a major scheme in the area. The driving of No. 1 drift commenced in the autumn of 1952. Unfortunately the bad roof conditions in the seam lowered productivity to a level where the colliery became uneconomic and the National Coal Board closed the mine in June 1963.

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