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Favourite South Cotswold Walks
Book One

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  • Eighteen super short walks in the South Cotswolds
  • Ideas to link some of the walks for full days out
  • Well tried and tested instructions
  • Clear, helpful route maps
  • No need to turn pages during a walk
  • Pubs and refreshment stops shown
  • Public transport information included
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near Barrow Hill view from Randwick Painswick from Pitchcombe
1. Upper Framilode, Saul
and Barrow Hill
5.5 miles mainly level walk
wide views over River Severn
2. Stonehouse and Randwick
5.5 miles moderate to hilly walk
wide views over the Severn Vale and the Forest of Dean
3. Painswick and Pitchcombe
5 miles moderate to hilly walk
views around valley
(3 would link with 4 for an 11 mile walk)
Sheepscombe valley The Butchers Arms, Sheepscombe walking below Coaley Peak
4. Painswick, Sheepscombe
6 miles moderate walk with
views across valley
( 4 would link with 5 for an 11 mile walk)
5. Sheepscombe, Ebworth
5 miles moderate walk
woodland walk with some views
6. Leonard Stanley and
Coaley Peak
5.5 miles moderate walk
wide, distant views on a clear day
walking down from Selsley Common Toadsmoor Pond Slad Church, Laurie Lee's resting place
7. Woodchester, Selsley Common
4.75 miles moderate to hilly walk
wide distant views to Wales and the Marlborough Downs on a clear day
8. Toadsmoor Pond,
Eastcombe and Brownshill
5 miles moderate to hilly walk
views down Golden Valley
9. Bulls Cross and Slad
5 miles hilly walk
Cider with Rosie walk
amazing views from Swift's Hill
Daneway House and Sapperton Berkeley Deer Park Waterley Bottom
10. Sapperton and Edgeworth
6.5 miles moderate walk
rewarding walk through quiet Cotswold countryside
11. Berkeley, Stone, Ham
7 miles mostly level walk
Historic town, riverside, fields and Deer Park with wide views
12. Dursley and Waterley Bottom
4.5 miles hilly walk
with lovely woodland and occasional views
Ruskin Mill Horsley Church Lasborough Manor
13. Nailsworth and Horsley
3 miles moderate to hilly walk
fishponds, quiet settlement, views

(13 would link with 14 for an 8.5 mile walk)
14.Kingscote and Horsley
5.5 miles moderate walk
quiet Cotswold valleys
(could be shortened to 4.5 miles)
15. Kingscote, Ozleworth Bottom
6 miles moderate walk
delightful secret "bottoms"
(14 would link with 15 for an 11.5 mile walk)
Wotton Hill Kingswood Abbey Gatehouse Leighterton duck pond
16. Wotton-under-Edge circular
5.5 miles moderate walk
wide views from Wotton Hill
(16 would link with 17 for a 9.5 mile walk)
17. Kingswood circular
4.75 mile fairly level walk passing Kingswood Abbey Gatehouse and modern mansion with wide views
18. Leighterton and Westonbirt
5 mile fairly level walk across fields, and skirting the famous Arboretum, finishing with a tour of the village of Leighterton
SEE our other book - More Favourite Walks (Book Two)