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Walk 7: Walk to Edithmead Cathedral and Back 
Allow just over one hour. The return walk is just over two miles.
This is an easy walk on footpaths along the edge of flat fields giving you a sight of vast open skies and superb views of the Knoll on the return journey. Use ordinary walking shoes unless the ground is wet. This is a "there and back" walk to Edithmead Cathedral" (Chapel). 1. Begin by the side of Ivy Clad Hall in the centre of the village just a
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yards from the village green. Ivy Clad Hall was built during the reign of
Queen Anne (1702 - 1714) and is one of the oldest houses in the village.
Its large lawn has been the site of many village functions including a recent
superb performance of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" given
by a group of six travelling actors. At the end of this lane, also known
as "Body's Lane" go through a covered walkway. A few yards
past this the footpath swings to the right and will take you across the
railway and onto the sports ground at Burnham on Sea.
2. Do not take this path but go immediately left and over the stile.
Walk about three hundred yards keeping the rhyne on your right. Cross
the rhyne at a small bridge and follow the path alongside a low hedge.
At the end of this field is a short avenue of trees for you to walk through.
Keep a look out for a variety of birds. 
You may be lucky enough to see
kestrels, sparrowhawks and/or buzzards. On this walk in mid summer you
will also be able to see a wide variety of butterflies and wild grasses
3.
Go through the gate in front of you and cross two fields and diagonally on your left you will see a small
bridge across a rhyne. Cross this. Keep to the right hand side of
the field with Inner Farm on your right. Here there is a large man made
pond which collects dirty water from the farm.
4. Facing you you will see a fairly modern bungalow. Go
towards this bungalow keeping to the hedge on your right. A few yards to
the right of the bungalow is an overgrown gap in the hedge. Go
through this gap and across a plank which leads onto a covered path
and out onto Edithmead Lane. 
Turn left and walk a few yards
towards the main Middle Burnham Road. On your left you will see
Edithmead "Cathedral" (Chapel), a Mission church, and one of a
number of tin tabernacles still used today for regular worship.
5. Retrace your steps for the return journey which will give you
magnificent views of the Knoll and the village. Take time to look at
these views which are worth any photgrapher's time.
6. When you cross the final plank over the rhyne you may vary the
end of your walk by turning right. Follow the path over a final rhyne
into a meadow keeping the hedge on your immediate left. Chickens and
ducks are kept in this field so please keep dogs on a lead. Go through
the gateway at the side of the bungalow and you will emerge onto Brent Street
opposite the tennis courts. Some three hundred yards to your left will
be your starting point, Ivy Clad Hall.