Home page > Walks photos <		southcotswoldramblers.org.uk Painswick Beacon and Cranham 4 July 2007 Mike and Heather lead a 6.5 mile strenuous walk on a morning that threatens rain, but never really does - until a few minutes after we finish! .
		The car park below Painswick Beacon. Mike seems happy .
		We head down to Paradise. Not any more - the pub's closed .
		Mike cuts a path for us with his secateurs .
		Brian, as usual, looking his best for the camera .
		We look across the small valley to Paradise House (zooming in) .
		As we descend towards Damsells Farm .
		Don't know what this is doing there .
		Tree planted by Anne Boleyn - scene also on front cover of "More Favourite Walks" .
		The imposing Damsells Farm .
		Waiting for a straggler to catch up as we head uphill .
		With this view back across the valley to Olivers? (unless you know differently ...) .
		And looking towards Painswick with its church spire and Frocester Hill far away on the skyline .
		Our path now takes us through the garden of Trench Hill House .
		As we pause for coffee looking across the valley to Jacks Green, Sheepscombe .
		Then continue into Lord's and Lady's Wood .
		Passing "Laurie Lee's" cricket field at Sheepscombe (bought for the village by the late Laurie Lee) His poet friend Frank Mansell used to bowl his "fast furious ball like a shot from a cannon" - Cider with Rosie .
		Then walking through Workman's Wood .
		Where there has been an outbreak of Laminated Papyrus, a voracious, tree dwelling weed, from Egypt .
		We pause as we reach the Ebworth Estate .
		Looking back at the wood carving - Spirit of the Woods .
		Is this really the toilet we were told to expect when we reached Ebworth? .
		No there is a better one attached to the Estate Building .
		Maybe one day we will see these on Rodborough Common .
		As we leave Ebworth we look across the fields to the distant hills .
Make sure you get our best side .
As we head down through Overtown our backmarkers start to feel quite summery .
Then we head up through the woods to Cranham Common .
Once more looking down the valley across fields of wild flowers .
Before stopping for lunch .
We now head back down into the valley passing "Gladys' Leap" .
Eventually pausing .
For Mike to explain some problem footpaths .
Before we head down the road to another infamous problem .
We head back up the hill .
	Looking back and zooming in on Suttons Mill .
	Eventually passing the Royal William .
	We then head across the golf course .
	Looking down across the Severn Vale .
	To reach Painswick Beacon .
	Where Mike points out some features of the landscape .
	Including this area known locally as the spoon .
	We continue along the top of the Beacon .
	Spotting something in the distant sky. Could be Easy Jet's latest fleet of two seater passenger jets .
	No, it's the Red Arrows practicing for the Yeovilton Air Show .
	We leave the Beacon heading back for the cars .
	Passing this photographer who seems to have found something interesting .
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	Thanks to Richard for the photos and captions, and links thanks to the Telegraph
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