Route: Mendip Way (United Kingdom)

The Mendip Way is an 80-kilometre (50 mi) long-distance footpath across the Mendip Hills from Weston-super-Mare to Frome. It is divided into two sections.
The West Mendip Way was opened in 1979 and starts at the Bristol Channel at Uphill Cliff. It climbs the Mendip escarpment affording views over the Somerset Levels. It then crosses the central Mendip plateau leading down to Cheddar Gorge and on to Wells. Most of the western section is within the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. From there the East Mendip Way (~30 km, 460m elevation gain) continues through Shepton Mallet to Frome.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendip_Way

https://www.ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_path.php?path_name=Mendip+Ways

East Mendip Way:

The route leaves Wells by way of the path around the Bishop's Palace moat, then enters the woods at Tor Hill, a National Trust property, and passes by the top of a disused quarry. It then joins a track which was formerly used by horse-drawn transport to avoid paying tolls on the main road. This track passes by King's Castle wood, a reserve of the Somerset Wildlife Trust and the site of an Iron Age settlement.  It takes the route on to the high ground of Lyatt and Furzy Sleight. Passing high above the village of Croscombe, the path then goes through Ham Woods and turns southeast to descend towards Shepton Mallet. Approaching town, the route roughly follows the line of the now derelict Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. The two large viaducts that carried the railway around the town are Grade II listed building.

Leaving the town behind, the path goes over Ingsdons Hill to the hamlet of Chelynch. At Waterlip the route passes by a flooded quarry, then climbs to 280 metres (919 ft), the highest point on the Mendip Way. This is the site of Cranmore Tower, a 45-metre (148 ft) tall 19th century folly, now a grade II listed building. Asham Wood is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest and the largest and most diverse of the ancient semi-natural woods in the Mendips. Further on, the hamlet of Chantry is one of the Thankful Villages which suffered no casualties in the First World War. The path then goes alongside Whatley Quarry which has been the subject of environmental criticism. At Forbury Bottom, the Macmillan Way shares the route for a short way until Great Elm. The path then leads into Frome where the Mendip Way terminates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendip_Way#Route_description

The GPX route follows the route as marked on the UK Ordnance Survey 1: 25 000 scale (Explorer) maps (Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency for Great Britain).  This route can also be found publicly available below.

https://www.walkingenglishman.com/ldp/eastmendipway.html

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/43069214

The route listed runs from West to East as the extension to the West Mendip Way, this is often referred to as the uphill direction; the vertical gain from East to West is slightly less at 440m.

West Mendip Way:

This is the western portion of the Mendip Way (the portion that actually goes through the Mendips Hills AONB). Route description is here: https://ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_path.php?path_name=West+Mendip+Way