Karen has had to modify the route of her walk on Dec 6th because of poor conditions underfoot in places, she also advises bringing walking poles if you have them.

We have been asked to look out for 2 missing Cairn terriers near Alderley Farm in the Wotton area. If you see them please contact 07704243812.  

As Peter is unable to lead this walk, Ros and Sally will be leading a version of it. Same starting place, same length 7 miles, slightly different route to avoid very wet fields. Coffee stop and a snack stop. There will be the option to leave the walk after 6 miles to go into Cirencester…

For a few years Ramblers supported a mobile phone app that enabled us to take a photo of a problem on a footpath and send it directly to Ramblers head office and to the Public Rights of Way officer giving the co-ordinates of the location. Occasionally this didn’t work because of signal problems, but generally…

There is an article in the latest Walk magazine about ” Valuing our paths ” and the Stroud local authority is in the top five for public footpath provision.

We’re delighted that we have filled the whole Jan – March programme, so thank you to all our walk leaders. Karen needs you to get your walk details in by 4th December please. You can use the following to sent them in   Submit a walk details If you are a newish leader, there is a…

We have introduced the option for leaders to designate their walk as a Faster Pace walk when they complete their Submit a walk form, as well as the Leisurely (for Monday walks) and Moderate for the majority of our walks. We anticipate that this will be used quite sparingly (probably by only a handful of…

You will have received an email from head office today with a draft ” consultation ” document for walk leaders. You may have glanced at it and discounted it but YOU NEED TO READ IT , this will affect all walk leaders going forward if they adopt it.

Ramblers are proposing to update their 10 year strategy and charitable aims, you can read about it on the link. Click here

Attached is link to a printable table of walks for the rest of the year. Many thanks to Dave I for his help again. Click on Read more to access it. https://www.southcotswoldramblers.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Walks-programme-for-S.-Cots-Oct-to-Dec-2023-complete.pdf Please check the message board before walking as things can change!

We are very grateful to the new leaders who have come forward for the October – December programme. It is important that we get new leaders to reduce the pressure on our existing leaders who are all doing more than their fair share, with the fear that they will get fed up and give up.…

From the 24th July car parking charges will be introduced at Cleeve Hill golf club and at Quarry car park. A fixed car parking tariff of £2 per 24-hour period will be introduced. This will apply 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Cotswold Hub Ltd, which owns the golf club business, have…

There has been 2 major improvements after the disastrous introduction of their new website. Firstly, on our South Cotswold page, you can now see the Date and Distance of the walk, instead of just the title (you still have to scroll through all their stuff about joining Ramblers and donating) but this is a significant…

i have received a call from the Mill Inn at Withington to say they have re-opened this week and would be happy for us to start walks from their car park provided we use the pub after.

Ramblers have a page on their website listing all the errors they know about (quite a long page!!). If you want to look at it you can find it at https://www.ramblers.org.uk/walks-manager-website-status  

If you use the app to access walks, you need to select Walking, My group (if you want just us) or My area (if you want all group walks in Gloucestershire). The information you get for each walk doesn’t show the name of the walk leader or contact details, but if you click on the…

The much delayed new Ramblers head office website came on line on 31 May. To find OUR walks, the easiest way is to start from our www.southcotswoldramblers.org.uk website, click on All our planned walks below the main picture, which will take you to our page on the Ramblers main website. Scroll down to Upcoming walks…

All the walks in the South Cotswold Ramblers Programme are stored on a national Ramblers database and this is what you are looking at currently when you click on the links on the South Cotswold Ramblers home page to see what walks are coming up. The old Ramblers database known as GWEM (Guided Walks and…

This car park has suddenly become very busy and finding a space there is difficult. Additionally a lot of the adjacent roads have double yellow lines on, so this area should be avoided as a starting place. You can always park at St. Cyr’s church (next to Stonehouse Court Hotel) if you want to lead…

The Glos. area committee is hoping to put together a list of people who would be willing to help with footpath clearance in areas not necessarily covered by the Cotswold Wardens. This would be cutting back with secateurs etc not power tools. If anyone is interested could you please contact me initially via the website…

We receive a sum of money for Group Funds from Ramblers Holidays where members taking a holiday with them have nominated South Cotswold Group. If you ever forget to tell them when booking, there is still time if you contact them before you go. If you do so, they will donate £10, £20 or even…

Here is a link to a guide on how to find walks on our website. Click on Read more and you will be able to access it https://www.southcotswoldramblers.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/guide-to-finding-walks-on-our-website.pdf  

Leaders do need to complete the simple Risk Assessment form that Ramblers head office has issued. This can be found on the Leaders menu  on our website. There is a PDF version and a Word version. Sally

We are still in need of a footpath officer to represent the group. You do not necessarily  need to be a regular walker, if anyone is interested please ring me on 07931114439 to discuss further.

Parkruns in Stratford Park and Tetbury Goods Yard are taking place and it is almost impossible to park as all spaces are taken by runners on a Saturday.  Leaders might want to avoid these as a starting place on Saturdays, though they are still fine for other days. Sally

Walk leaders if you need to cancel a walk at the last minute for whatever reason e.g. weather conditions, illness etc. rather than using the contact page on the website which may not be picked up straight away you can ring either Ann  on 07931114439, Sally on 07818425088 or Mike. We can then put a…

Lawrence has been to Miserden recently and noted that the sign at the entrance to the CP by the school has been recently changed to “School Car Park – No Parking Mon – Fri”. This means that the car park should not be used for mid-week walks, at least in term time. (Jill and Sue…

Our Group was set up in the 1970’s as a Footpath Group and walks started years later. However the work of volunteers is still very much needed in keeping an eye on our wonderful path network. We need more help, having only 5 volunteers on the committee! If you don’t fancy meetings (just 4 a…