Home page > Walks photos <		southcotswoldramblers.org.uk Minchinhampton to Cherington Pond 18 August 2007 A favourite walk (based on No 9 in More Favourite Walks) led by Olivia, once again in deteriorating weather conditions this so-called "summer". Buy our book and do it on a sunny day - it's a superb 7.5mile walk! ..
		Olivia ready to give an introductory talk .
		Alex and Carol have cleared the first stile .
		We head off across the fields .
		We went up and now we go down .
		We pass this attractive isolated house .
		We climb again leaving Minchinhampton .
		Heading towards Gatcombe.
		Anne admires the "Long Stone"--it is said that if an infant is passed through the hole in the stone it would be cured of ricketts and smallpox .
		We form an orderly queue for a stile .
		Maurice negotialtes the stone stile .
		We bunch up to cross the golf course .
		We see golfers and one seems to be in the rough .
		Olivia waits for us to catch up .
We negotiate this rather difficult stile and steep bank .
Walking through the hamlet of "Nag's Head" .
At Cherington Pond these stepping stones have been rearranged by the floods .
	Bernard having crossed decides to come back and have another go .
	Still some evidence of recent floods .
	Some paths are very overgrown .
	Still forcing our way through.
	We pass by Aston Down with an old aircraft hanger visible across the cornfield .
	Nearing the end of the walk .
	Now raining heavily hence the blurred picture.
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	Photos and captions thanks to Bernard
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