Merryton Braes

A walk at Merryton train station.

Along the road from the station, down a street and behind some houses, Merryton Braes isn't really an "official" place as such. Just an area of woodland stuck on a steep riverbank between houses and the Avon Water that developers can't build & profit from. There are paths well used enough to easily follow and to feature on OpenStreetMap but I can't find any local council core-path plan including them even as aspirational. The Green Bridge marks the return to charted territory at the very southern edge of Chatelherault Country Park and I guess the reason for local use of this route. We like these sorts of places 🙂
Story updated 2025-05-10.