Frome

The Frome Valley Walkway is an 18 mile (29 km) footpath through Bristol's 'green lung',which follows the River Frome from the River Avon in the centre of Bristol right out to the Cotswolds in South Gloucestershire.
The path also links the Cotswold Way National Trail at one end with the Avon Walkway at the other.

Although the path starts at Castle Park, the river Frome largely passes through culverts and only starts to becomes a wooded walk as it passes under the bridges at Muller Road (M32 Junction 2)and Stapleton Road(by the Merchants Arms) and through Eastville Park. The walk then continues past Snuff Mills and on to the Oldbury Court Estate, passing beneath Frenchay Common, then to Cleeve Bridge before passing under the M4 motorway at Hambrook.

The path continues through Winterbourne Down under the spectacular Winterbourne Viaduct, another of Brunel's masterpieces.

The valley then opens out, passing through parkland to Frampton Cotterell and Iron Acton to Yate and the Goose Green Fields Nature Area.

A large section of the walkway is along suburban pavement here, before the final stretch of fields leading to Old Sodbury where the Walkway officially stops.

The river Frome, not to be confused with the Frome in Somerset, has its source in Dodington Park.
The word, 'Frome', actually means 'brisk', which may explain why there is more than one river of the same name.