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Start/finish: Back Lane car park - £1.00 © OpenstreetMap contributors and WWaW Lodge St Kenelm’s ay W Longwood d W e l l ol all day Toilets 20p in carFarm park. w Sudeley Hill Dryﬁeld ts gates ahead. Go through the fieldLangl e gate on ash2 beside theCo Old Farm Farm y Brook B463

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n Leave Back Lane car park by the road the Cotswold Voluntary o Sudeley Corndean e o r hillside. Alderton Hill and Dumbleton HillFarm B Lodge r o entrance, turn left then right into Wardens carried out o come into view. Stay parallel to the trees, k Postlip some renovation work). Barnmeadow Road. At the end of the Farm Carving Rising and bear left at a post, C to follow the road turn left intoSun Orchard Road. Go Parks y Topograph Gloucestershire Way. Pass through a field a Farm Retrace your steps throughW the gate and Washpool straight on, then turn right into Knottes e No Man’s b gate and continue ahead signposted Far m Patch up the hill. WhenCar parking you getco back to the Deadmanbury ch Close. In a few metres you will see a for Belas Knap in Gate Stanley, ignoring a path that leads up the W Newmeadow 2 Woodpeckers 3 junction at E, carry on up the bridleway 6 Farm metal4 gate off to the left, leadingCleeve into Common a Source of B Castle y escarpmentR. Isbourne on your left D. a Rock Postlip Warren between bushes.W Near the top of the

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4 (often muddy) track, noticing the good Go over the stile, cross the farm track and W C Knap A P o s t a o Ellenborough Stone y ts springs in this section, often creatingw Park Hotel Blocks ol d W views of Cleeve Hill on the right. take the path slightly to your right. This ay GWR muddy patches. From point D, the path Station will take you over a ditch; then over a stile Queen’s Wood goes slightly downhill, levels out past a After about half a mile (0.8km), you will Cheltenham into a pasture. Head straight up Langley Radio Dew pond Race Course Mastssmall pond on the right, and then passes a meet a junction of tracks near farm Hill to a gate in the hedge. Go through the Wontley Farm boggy area on the left. The(Disused) path then rises gate and head straight up again, keeping buildings. Continue forward and down towards the wooden gate noted above). just to the left of the highest point, to a the hill on a concrete road, ignoring the The gate is signed ‘Stanley Farm’, and has metal gate and a stile in a wire fence. This bridleway going off to the right. The road an out-of-use ladder stile next to it. is a good spot to catch your breath and passes a farmhouse F and reaches the admire the view behind you. tarmac surfaced ‘Harveys Lane’. Descend Carry straight on through a narrow rough the hill for about half a mile (0.8km), field for about a 500 metres with gradually Prestbury No Continueve straight uphill until you admiring the view of Winchcombe and its rt on Pittville thinning trees on your left. You will meet a meet a Lpathane coming in from the left surrounding hills. Ignore Abbots Leys Road post and wire fence on your right. Follow (Gloucestershire & Winchcombe Way). on the left and continue downhill until you this to a track which is a bridleway E. Follow this path uphill to a wooden reach Langley Road. marker post and a metal gate in the top Turn right down the track towards a barn, Turn left, then at the junction and carry right hand corner of the field. The path passing through a gate. At the bottom of straight on along Back Lane to the car takes you diagonally across this field. the slope is a junction of paths. Turn left park. You will see a ruined barn on the right, through the gate signed ‘Stanley Farm’. then another marker post and a wall. Follow the wire fence on your left until © Winchcombe Walkers are Welcome 2017 Follow the wall uphill, as views to the you reach the wood carving of a shepherd Vale of Evesham open up to your right. WWaW hope you enjoy the walk, however the walk is undertaken at and his dog. The placard on the right hand your sole risk and WWaW have no responsibility for loss, damage, Go through a gate to reach a track B; side reads ‘This chainsaw tree carving was injury or interpretation. Every possible care has been taken to continue straight on to meet two field commissioned by Stanley Farm on a fallen ensure the information given was accurate at the time of creation.