Summer Picnic Lunch and Walk– Sat 18 July. Details and payment All South Cotswold Ramblers members are invited to a Picnic Walk and Lunch on Saturday 18 July Olivia will be leading a 4 mile walk from Avening Sports and Social Club (GL8 8NL) starting at 10am and going to Cherington Ponds. It is a…

Hilary has added this 9.5 mainly flat walk to the programme. Details below: The No Daffodils this way walk – Ramblers Please note this does not appear on the printable table. Lenneke has pointed out that the slip road which links the A417 Over Causeway  to the A40 will be closed and drivers will have…

Ros and I will be leading a 3.7 mile walk from the Green at Quenington. The walk goes along the River Coln. There is the option to visit the Fresh Air Sculpture Show afterwards where over 130 sculptures are displayed in the riverside gardens of the Old Rectory. Tickets are £10. Details about the Sculpture…

Photos are now uploading ok and the AI captions seem to have disappeared. However, I am not confident that this problem has been permanently solved so please bear with us if sometimes there are captions and sometimes not! Sally

We have so far had a very poor response to lead walks during this period. There are still 8 Mondays, 4 Wednesdays and 4 Saturdays with no walks so it looks like we’ll all be staying at home.

Gloucestershire County Council will temporarily close part of the B4014 Avening Road from outside ‘Unit 21-22, Spring Mill Industrial Estate’ to outside the property known as ‘Weighbridge Inn’ for a distance of approximately 480 metres from 5th May 2026 until 30th June 2026 only or until the said works have been completed. Sally

If you want to get in early and have the biggest choice of dates, they are on the Walk Planning Progress page of the website. However, we really need some new leaders to come forward as it is getting harder to fill our programme. Talk to any of the leaders if you’re interested and they…

If you are leading (or planning to lead) a walk that covers the part of Birdlip Parish (which includes Crickley Hill, the National Star College or Barrow Wake), there will be major diversions because of the A417. Details of this can be found on the National Trails website HERE There is a map HERE Sally

A big Thank you to the people who have come forward to lead walks. We’re now down to just 2 walks with no leaders.  There are currently 2 Mondays (25 May and 22 June), where there will be no walks, unless people come forward to lead them. We will give you all the help you…

We put this on our website 18 months ago but it seems a good idea to highlight it. Every Rambler should have this information available when they are out on a walk. You can set up an emergency contact number on your phone for someone to call (friend, family member) on your behalf without the…

Trying to put on walks to suit everyone isn’t easy. We experimented with nominating 1 Saturday a month as a possible Faster Paced walk but it was suggested that this was too limiting, so we are now saying that leaders are free to choose whether they prefer to lead a Moderate or a Faster Paced…

There is a link on our website under Footpaths, Report a problem, which takes you to Gloucestershire Public Rights of Way office who use Fix my Street. The form cannot be used as it goes to a group’s Footpath Officer, and we do not have one! I have left the form on our website in…

If any walk leaders are thinking about leading a walk from barrow Wake the car park is closed for 30 weeks, the access road is still available for parking. It’s something to do with the road works.

We now have Janet helping Ros in her job as Membership Secretary. There is quite a lot of work involved (mainly caused by Ramblers Head Office’s unfriendly bureaucracy) so it is good to have someone else to share the load. The 99% of you who receive communication by email should have received the next walks…

If you are a leader who doesn’t have a pre-organised backmarker who knows your route but rely on a volunteer in the car park beforehand, it would be very helpful if you could give them a copy of the map of your route so they know where you are going. Another option for people who…

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…

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…

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 . We can then put a message…

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…