{"id":221,"date":"2008-05-12T16:59:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T16:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php\/2008\/05\/12\/holcombe-to-castle-cary\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:57:47","slug":"holcombe-to-castle-cary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Holcombe to Castle Cary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 20px; width: 300px;\"><a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/MobileBlog\/20080512\/PICT0003 (Medium)_Thumbnail.JPG\" target=\"_blank \" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/MobileBlog\/20080512\/PICT0003 (Medium)_Thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Set off from Holcombe at 8.30 by path known to Tony via the hidden valley to reach the Fosse Way (a major Roman road between Exeter &#038; the north) first used over 2000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>So good was this route that even today it remains a good trunk road for much of its distance.<\/p>\n<p>We joined it for 2 miles as a track through beech woods over the eastern end of the Mendips.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch in Evercreech at the pub in conversation with an ex Saracens rugby player.<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon progressed by field paths to CAstle Cary and a campsite behind the Brook House Inn, arriving at 4 pm, Tim&#8217;s shin that was well behaved is now becoming uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/?ie=UTF8&#038;ll=51.105433,-2.524481&#038;spn=0.000949,0.00213&#038;t=h&#038;z=17&#038;om=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to where we are on Google Maps<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set off from Holcombe at 8.30 by path known to Tony via the hidden valley to reach the Fosse Way (a major Roman road between Exeter &#038; the north) first used over 2000 years ago. So good was this route that even today it remains a good trunk road for much of its distance. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/?p=221\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holcombe to Castle Cary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}