Benger Trails
9. Upper Seagry and Goss Croft Hall / Seagry House

Goss Croft Community Hall is a modern, eco friendly and attractive facility. It is run jointly with the adjoining villages of Startley and Great Somerford. Goss Croft is the ancient name of the field where it is sited. It was completed in 2012 to replace a much older hall which stood 100 yards along the road towards Startley; the new house called 'Old Hall' now stands where the hall used to be.

Across the road behind the wall is the parkland surrounding Seagry House; you have just walked around the southern and eastern sides of the parkland. If you took the optional cross-country route from Scotland Hill, you will have walked along the western and northern sides, and will have arrived via a footpath immediately next to the 'Old Hall' house.

If you are using the App, go to 'Next On The Trail' now, and then select 'Upper Seagry / Seagry Road junction' so that you can read about the houses between here and Hungerdown House. Then walk through the village to Seagry Road.

Take care as you leave Upper Seagry, and approach the junction with Seagry Road with caution; you will be safer if you walk on the left side of the road towards the junction, because cars tend to come round the corner quite fast.

Across the road is Hungerdown House, which was built in 1914, in an 18th-century style of red brick and stone with a tiled roof. Brick stables north of the house were also built in 1914, but were converted into a separate house in 1947.