A SURPRISE ENDING FOR OUR KINGSCOTE LEISURELY WALK – MONDAY 3 FEBRUARY and a pub lunch now possible. See Walks Programme Page for more….

There is now a spare double room for our Catalonia holiday. 18 March – 25 March 2020. £699 per person. Details can be found on Preferred Travel Services website – the holiday is ‘Catalonia – Trails and Rails’. If you are interested or want more information, contact Ann at [email protected] or on 07931 114439

While we are forced to endure all this mud, we do recommend strong walking boots or wellingtons with good grips and not summer walking shoes. If you have poles it may be a good idea to bring them in case they prove helpful in these slippery conditions.    

There are several walk changes on the Walks Programme page, so  ALWAYS check in case there are any changes or advice applicable to the walk you are planning to attend. 

The Green Lanes Blog UPDATED 12 JAN Save the Lake District Off-road vehicles – Little Langdale and High Tilberthwaite, Lake District Stop 4x4s ruining the beauty of the Lake District National park’s decision not to ban 4x4s from tracks is outrageous, says action group  

Christine T writes, “Please could you appeal on the South Cotswold website to anyone that remembers Brian (our former chairman and Group holiday leader extraordinaire) to visit him if they can fit in the time. Brian would be delighted to see anyone from the R.A if they have time to visit him. Brian is fine.…

You can see 4 photos taken by our Ramblers Holidays speaker at the AGM on the Photos section, November, Pre-AGM walk. He and his wife were very impressed with our Group and enjoyed making their presentation. Thank you to everybody for attending the meeting and helping to make it go so well. Richard and Mike…

Last Wednesday Brian and Sheelagh led a walk for us and we came across volunteers from Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust moving crayfish. See Richard’s photographs (numbers 5,6 and 7)  here The BBC have now published a news item here

Act FAST and call 999  

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…

Mike and Heather Garner were very pleased to read that Keith Ebbutt reached the magnificent age of 100 last month. He and Gill have been members of our ramblers group for at least 40 years. Mike remembers about 30 years ago or so that Keith was hoping the group could arrange a few slower walks!…

There are roadworks on the A46 at Pitchcombe where it joins the A4173 between Painswick and Stroud causing significant delays at times that are planned to go on until Spring 2020. For details see website – https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/highways/major-projects-list/a4173-improvements/ Future layout diagram  Thanks to Lawrence for the update.

Message from Ann Having just returned from a successful holiday in St Ives I have been asked by a number of people if I would consider doing the same thing next year. I am proposing a week’s holiday to another John Fowler site at Killigarth near Polperro on 12/9/20, I know this is a long…

See the latest designs for the A417 Missing Link scheme, including a garden bridge from Crickley Hill taking the Cotswold and Gloucestershire Ways safely across the roads. Read about it here Report in the Citizen/Echo (including fly-through video after noisy advert!)  

A quick update on the surface upgrade scheme on the Nailsworth to Woodchester section of the cycleway. The contractor will be commencing operations on site on Monday 23rd September and the works are programmed to last for around six weeks. The contractor has also provided a method statement and requested sections of the route be…

What is what3words? what3words is a really simple way to talk about location. We have assigned each 3m square in the world a unique 3 word address that will never change. For example ///filled.count.soap marks the exact entrance to what3words’ London headquarters. 3 word addresses are easy to say and share, and are as accurate…

On Alex’s walk this Saturday (7/9/19) which started from Stroud Leisure Centre it was almost impossible to park as there was a Parkrun in Stratford Park and virtually all the parking spaces were taken by runners. 2 South Cots who resorted to parking on the grass verge were given parking tickets. Parkrun’s website says that…

August 2019 – Exciting news about the Cambrian Way being waymarked and a new Cicerone guidebook being published in 2019. We in Gloucestershire are very interested as it is the creation of Tony Drake back in the 1960’s. Read more about Tony here. Overall route map – longer than the Pennine Way with more climbing…

Hi South Cotswold Ramblers, It’s Jacob from GO Outdoors, did you know we’ve teamed up with Blacks, Millets and Ultimate Outdoors to give you the biggest range, widest choice and the best value? As a member of the Ramblers your entitled to an extra discount of at least 10% in store and online. This further…

Ann A is planning a walking holiday to Catalonia in Spain for Spring 2020. Details will be in the next newsletter which will come out in June. However, if you want to look at the holiday in advance, you will find it on the Preferred Travel Services website. The holiday is called Catalonia – Trails…

Watch this short video on how best to use the (relatively) new 112 number, especially if you are in a remote area. Don’t be put off by the fact that it is on Youtube. This is actually very useful. Click HERE

GDPR News – All your contact details are your personal information, including your email address. To check your record and indeed update it if necessary it is quite straightforward: Go to www.ramblers.org.uk If you have already registered online with Ramblers, enter your login details (email address and password) and then check your record. If not…