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Directions to the Old Court, Temple Cloud, from M5 Northbound
At M5 Junction 23 take A39 eastbound for Street, Glastonbury, Wells.
Follow A39 thought Street and as you approach Glastonbury fork left, still on A39, for Wells.
Follow A39 past Wells until it joins/intersects with A37 approaching Farrington Gurney. You are now about three miles south of Temple Cloud.
Stay on A37 (ignore A39 leaving to the right, signed Bath) and follow it up the hill into Temple Cloud, going past the left turn to Cameley.
As you approach a set of pedestrian traffic lights, you will see a Texaco gas station on the left and opposite it the Temple Inn public house on your right. Temple Inn Lane turns right immediately before the pub.
We are the big building surrounded by a stone wall opposite the pub on Temple Inn Lane. Turn into Temple Inn Lane and fork right immediately onto the access road across the cattle grid and turn into our gates.
Directions to the Old Court, Temple Cloud, from M5 Southbound
The City of Bristol and the surrounding motorways can be very busy and slow at peak times, weekends and holidays. There is no perfect solution to this when travelling south on the M5 but alternative 2 at least avoids an unattractive, often slow, journey across Bristol itself and is more scenic.
1. Via M4/M32
At M5 Junction 15, take M4 direction London.
At M4 Junction 19 (next junction), take M32 to Bristol and follow directions on page 2 below.
2. Via M5 Junction 19
At M5 Junction 19 take Gordano Services exit and follow Easton-in-Gordano and Portbury, turning left on A369.
Turn right almost immediately for Portbury. Follow this road round to the left as you enter Portbury and continue on.
At the T junction with B3128 turn left for Failand. As you enter Failand (less than a mile) and after passing the Failand Inn pub on your right you will see a turn to the right. Take this and turn right when it shortly meets the B3129. (If you miss the first right turn after the pub, you will come to a set of traffic lights where the B3128 crosses the B3129. Turn right here instead.)
Follow B3129 to its intersection with B3130 at Flax Bourton and turn left.
Continue on B3130, going straight on where it meets A370, through Barrow Gurney, until you meet A38 at a set of traffic lights.
Turn right and then shortly left, again on B3130, signed Winford, Pensford and Chew Magna.
Go through Winford and at the roundabout at the bottom of Pagan's Hill turn right, up the hill, for Chew Stoke.
At the T junction as you enter Chew Stoke, turn right and then shortly turn left following the recreational sign for "Chew Valley Lake", direction Bishop's Sutton.
Follow across the dam on the Lake around the curves to the T junction in Bishop's Sutton. Turn left on the A368.
Shortly, turn right for Stowey and Temple Cloud. (This turn is not very obvious as you approach it - there is house named Stoweylands on the right just before you reach it and there is a telephone kiosk on the left a short way up the road you are turning into. If you miss it, continue on until you reach the A37 at Chelwood and turn right at the roundabout there.)
Follow this road round to the left at the top of the hill above Stowey and meet the A37 at Clutton. Turn right and run down the hill into Temple Cloud - watch out for 30 mile speed limit and speed camera as you enter the village.
As you come to a set of pedestrian traffic lights, you will see a Texaco gas station on the right and opposite it the Temple Inn public house on your left. Temple Inn Lane turns left immediately past the pub.
We are the big building surrounded by a stone wall opposite the pub on Temple Inn Lane. Turn into Temple Inn Lane and fork right immediately onto the access road across the cattle grid and turn into our gates.
M4 to Junction 19 and take M32 to Bristol.
Follow M32 to the end T junction.
Turn left, following routes to the South West and signs for A4 Bath and A37 Shepton Mallet. Look also for the local signs to Temple Meads Railway Station. This is a major landmark on your route and you will go right past it. (Please note that A37 is the road you want all the way out of Bristol to Temple Cloud but after this point it is not consistently signed for Shepton Mallet. A37(A39) Wells is the most frequent signing and the road is often described as the Wells Road. You will also see signing to Yeovil).
You are now on the Inner Circuit Road. Following this down through the underpass, stay with it to the large roundabout system at its end and there swing round to the left following A4 Bath, A37/(A39) Wells, A38 Taunton.
This brings you to the main front entrance of Temple Meads Station. Pick up the centre lane painted A37 on the road.
A38 for Taunton goes to the right just after you pass Temple Meads. Continue with A4 and A37. You almost immediately reach a set of traffic lights where A37 (signed Wells and Yeovil) forks away from A4 to the right.
Follow A37 through Bristol suburbs and out into the country approximately 10 miles to Temple Cloud. When you reach a roundabout where the A368, Bath to Weston super Mare road, crosses the A37 you have about two and a half miles to go. Stay with the A37 through Clutton and into Temple Cloud - watch out for 30 mile speed limit and speed camera as you enter the village.
As you come to a set of pedestrian traffic lights, you will see a Texaco gas station on the right and opposite it the Temple Inn public house on your left. Temple Inn Lane turns left immediately past the pub.
We are the big building surrounded by a stone wall opposite the pub on Temple Inn Lane. Turn into Temple Inn Lane and fork right immediately onto the access road across the cattle grid and turn into our gates.
Directions to the Old Court, Temple Cloud, from London via M4.
Approximate journey length at quiet times: 2 hours 15 minutes from West London but allow longer at times of heavy traffic.
M4 to Junction 19 and take M32 to Bristol.
Follow M32 to the end T junction.
Turn left, following routes to the South West and signs for A4 Bath and A37 Shepton Mallet. Look also for the local signs to Temple Meads Railway Station. This is a major landmark on your route and you will go right past it. (Please note that A37 is the road you want all the way out of Bristol to Temple Cloud but after this point it is not consistently signed for Shepton Mallet. A37(A39) Wells is the most frequent signing and the road is often described as the Wells Road. You will also see signing to Yeovil).
You are now on the Inner Circuit Road. Following this down through the underpass, stay with it to the large roundabout system at its end and there swing round to the left following A4 Bath, A37/(A39) Wells, A38 Taunton.
This brings you to the main front entrance of Temple Meads Station. Pick up the centre lane painted A37 on the road.
A38 for Taunton goes to the right just after you pass Temple Meads. Continue with A4 and A37. You almost immediately reach a set of traffic lights where A37 (signed Wells and Yeovil) forks away from A4 to the right.
Follow A37 through Bristol suburbs and out into the country approximately 10 miles to Temple Cloud. When you reach a roundabout where the A368, Bath to Weston super Mare road, crosses the A37 you have about two and a half miles to go. Stay with the A37 through Clutton and into Temple Cloud - watch out for 30 mile speed limit and speed camera as you enter the village.
As you come to a set of pedestrian traffic lights, you will see a Texaco gas station on the right and opposite it the Temple Inn public house on your left. Temple Inn Lane turns left immediately past the pub.
We are the big building surrounded by a stone wall opposite the pub on Temple Inn Lane. Turn into Temple Inn Lane and fork right immediately onto the access road across the cattle grid and turn into our gates.
Directions to the Old Court, Temple Cloud, from London via M3/A303.
Approximate journey length at quiet times: 2 hours 30 minutes from West London but allow longer at times of heavy traffic.
M3 to Junction 8 (A303, direction Andover). (Watch out for Stonehenge on your right shortly after the dual carriageway ends at Countess).
As you approach Stonehenge, fork right on A344, becomes A360, signed Devizes. After about three miles, pass through Shrewton and turn left on B390 to Chitterne. Stay on B390 through Chitterne and turn right when you reach A36, signed Bath and Bristol, at Heytesbury.
(A little simpler but less scenic and about the same travel time, stay on A303 and join A36 for Bath at Wylye, Deptford Interchange).
Follow A36 past Warminster.
Turn left on A362, signed Frome and Longleat. At Frome follow A362 when it turns off to the right and goes into the town.
Continue with A362 for Radstock.
(On Saturdays and market days Frome may be busy. As an alternative of about the same travel time, stay on A36 and do not join A362. At Woolverton turn left on B3110 to Norton St. Philip. At Norton St. Philip turn left on A366 signed Radstock and Wells. At intersection with A362 turn right for Radstock.)
Follow A362 through Radstock and Midsomer Norton, direction Bristol (the road is signed to the right at the mini-roundabout as you enter Midsomer Norton but you reach the same place if you go straight on and then follow Bristol (A362)), until it reaches a T junction with A37.
Turn right, signed Bristol, onto A37. Follow A37 up the hill to Temple Cloud.
As you approach a set of pedestrian traffic lights, you will see a Texaco gas station on the left and opposite it the Temple Inn public house on your right. Temple Inn Lane turns right immediately before the pub.
We are the big building surrounded by a stone wall opposite the pub on Temple Inn Lane. Turn into Temple Inn Lane and fork right immediately onto the access road across the cattle grid and turn into our gates.
Directions to the Old Court, Temple Cloud, from Bristol.
M4 to Junction 19 and take M32 to Bristol.
Follow M32 to the end T junction.
Turn left, following routes to the South West and signs for A4 Bath and A37 Shepton Mallet. Look also for the local signs to Temple Meads Railway Station. This is a major landmark on your route and you will go right past it. (Please note that A37 is the road you want all the way out of Bristol to Temple Cloud but after this point it is not consistently signed for Shepton Mallet. A37(A39) Wells is the most frequent signing and the road is often described as the Wells Road. You will also see signing to Yeovil).
You are now on the Inner Circuit Road. Following this down through the underpass, stay with it to the large roundabout system at its end and there swing round to the left following A4 Bath, A37/(A39) Wells, A38 Taunton.
This brings you to the main front entrance of Temple Meads Station. Pick up the centre lane painted A37 on the road.
A38 for Taunton goes to the right just after you pass Temple Meads. Continue with A4 and A37. You almost immediately reach a set of traffic lights where A37 (signed Wells and Yeovil) forks away from A4 to the right.
Follow A37 through Bristol suburbs and out into the country approximately 10 miles to Temple Cloud. When you reach a roundabout where the A368, Bath to Weston super Mare road, crosses the A37 you have about two and a half miles to go. Stay with the A37 through Clutton and into Temple Cloud - watch out for 30 mile speed limit and speed camera as you enter the village.
As you come to a set of pedestrian traffic lights, you will see a Texaco gas station on the right and opposite it the Temple Inn public house on your left. Temple Inn Lane turns left immediately past the pub.
We are the big building surrounded by a stone wall opposite the pub on Temple Inn Lane. Turn into Temple Inn Lane and fork right immediately onto the access road across the cattle grid and turn into our gates.
Directions to The Old Court, Temple Cloud from Bath
Leave Bath on A4, or on A36 ringroad from behind the station, direction Bristol.
After leaving the built up area, at the end of a dual carriageway section, you will reach a roundabout. Take A39/A368 signed for Wells and Weston super Mare.
After passing through the village of Marksbury, at a Shell gas station, the A39 forks to the left and A368 goes straight on (stay straight if going to the restaurant Carpenter's Arms and when you reach the roundabout again straight. Take your first right and go down the lane - CA is on the left/park opposite is easiest) To get home retrace your steps and at roundabout, you will go 3/4 way round and take sign for Clutton. We are the village just past Clutton. Watch out for 30 mph CAMERA in our village. As you come to Temple Inn pub on left and Texaco on the right, signal left and turn after the pub. Immediate right into our road and into the gate.
If you aren't going to the restaurant direct from Bath you will take the left fork which will continue with A39, through Farmborough and High Littleton, until it reaches a T junction with A37 at Hallatrow.
Turn right, signed Bristol, onto A37. Follow A37 up the hill into Temple Cloud.
At the top of the hill, as you approach a set of pedestrian traffic lights, you will see a Texaco gas station on the left and opposite it the Temple Inn public house on your right. Temple Inn Lane turns right immediately before the pub.
We are the big building surrounded by a stone wall opposite the pub on Temple Inn Lane. Turn into Temple Inn Lane and fork right immediately onto the access road across the cattle grid and turn into our gates.
(Should you miss the left turn on the A39, do not worry. A368 crosses A37 at a roundabout at Chelwood. In this case, turn left onto A37 and reverse the instructions in the last two paragraphs above. The journey time by either route is about the same.)
Via M4 - Avoiding Bristol
Traffic around Bristol can be very heavy and slow-moving at peak hours and weekends and there is nothing attractive about the journey round the city. As an alternative:
Take M4 to Junction 18 and turn left on A46 signed Bath.
After about three miles you reach a roundabout (the only one on the road). Turn right on A420, direction Bristol, and follow it for about five miles to Warmley where it intersects the Bristol ring-road A4174 at a large roundabout (do not deviate a little earlier when you arrive at a complicated little intersection with two mini-roundabouts close together - go straight on).
Turn left onto A4174, which is a large dual carriageway, signed A4 and A37, and follow it across several roundabouts until it reaches the A4 Bath/Bristol road at the Hicksgate roundabout. Do not join A4 but go straight across and exit, signed Keynsham.
Follow this road into Keynsham, bearing to the right at the roundabout into the High Street (do not go left signed Bitton) and then left at the next roundabout out of the High Street (signed "All Through Traffic"), down the hill and up again. When you reach the top of the hill there is a mini-roundabout where the road ahead is signed Bath/Bristol A4. Turn right here, signed Wells (A39), onto Wellsway B3116.
Follow this road until it meets the A39 at a T junction and turn right.
When A39 forks off to the left, stay straight on A368, signed Weston-Super-Mare, until it meets the A37 at a roundabout at Chelwood. (If you should happen to continue on A39, do not worry. This road also comes to a T junction with A37 but in this case you then need to turn right onto A37 and reverse the directions below.)
Turn left on A37 and stay with this for about two and a half miles through Clutton and into Temple Cloud - watch out for 30 mile speed limit and speed camera as you enter the village.
As you come to a set of pedestrian traffic lights, you will see a Texaco gas station on the right and opposite it the Temple Inn public house on your left. Temple Inn Lane turns left immediately past the pub.
We are the big building surrounded by a stone wall opposite the pub on Temple Inn Lane. Turn into Temple Inn Lane and fork right immediately onto the access road across the cattle grid and turn into our gates.
