Miles Without Stiles Common & Hartley Hill

This walk on the Cotswold edge takes in some breathtaking limestone scenery with stunning views. It involves a gradual climb and a steep descent.

To Map based upon OS mapping, Distance: 4 kilometres/ Bus stop © Crown Copyright licence no: 100040971 1 2 /2 miles (2 hours) with ups 7 41 A 1 and downs of 156m or 511ft To

Start

Start: Daisy Bank car park off D

a A435 is y b Leckhampton Hill SO 949/188 a n k R oa 2 d 3 7 Mountains Knoll Route: Wood Quarries Ro From the car park 1 turn right (dis) Charlton Kings Common (east) along the road. Soon you 6 will have views of Cleeve Hill to ad Devil's C o t Chimney sw the north. Ignore drives off to o ld W Hartley Hill a the left and continue up the y deteriorating road.

At the top of the rise, just after 5 the last house (Shackleton) and a small wooden barn, go 0 km 0.5 4 through a gate and take the 0 miles0.25 right fork off the track onto a To Seven bridleway 2 . Follow the This walk last checked 03/2017 Springs waymarkers, left at a T-junction and then right where paths a Cotswold dry-stone wall on the stone. They ceased operating in hour to the walk. cross. left. Climb up to Charlton Kings 1925. Common. 5 Continue on A few metres further on go following the top of the Turn right in the clearing down a straight on , (where the escarpment. wide path shortly passing a Circular Path turns small concrete sign for left downhil). 3 After about a mile (1.6km) you Leckhampton Hill Walk 8. reach Hartley Hill. Look for three Continue on this path along the benches to your left and a This leads down to Daisy Bank bottom of the steep scarp slope sign. 6 Bear Road. The path follows the route to a gate. It is an old stage coach right and take the well-defined of the old railway from the route from Cheltenham to path that leads down through quarry. Turn left on the road for Cirencester. Go through the the woods; go through a gate the car park. gate. and down to a small clearing 7 . You can start the walk from After a 1/2 mile (0.8km) turn right Leckhampton bus stop. through a gate onto the This clearing was the centre To join the walk you will need to Cotswold Way 4 (yellow of the extensive Leckhampton walk up Leckhampton Hill arrow/acorn) and follow it around Hill quarries and much of to Daisy Bank Road and turn the edge of a field to a gate with Cheltenham was built from their left. This will add about 1/2 an

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