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The purpose of this map is to help you plan your route Cycleability gradations, in increasing difficulty 16 according to your own cycling ability. Traffic-free paths and pavements are shown in dark green. Roads are 1 2 3 4 5 graded from ‘quieter/easier’ to ‘busier/more difficult’ Designated traffic-free cycle paths: off road, along a green, to yellow, to orange, to pink, to red shared-used pavements, canal towpaths (generally hard surfaced). Note: cycle lanes spectrum. If you are a beginner, you might want to plan marked on the actual road surface are not 15 your journey along mainly green and yellow roads. With shown; the road grading takes into account the existence and quality of a cycle lane confidence and increasing experience, you should be able to tackle the orange roads, and then the busier Canal towpath, usually good surface pinky red and darker red roads. Canal towpath, variable surface Riding the pink roads: a reflective jacket Our area is pretty hilly and, within the District can help you to be seen in traffic 14 Useful paths, may be poorly surfaced boundaries, we have used height shading to show the lie of the land. We have also used arrows > and >> Motorway 71 (pointing downhill) to mark hills that cyclists are going to find fairly steep and very steep. Pedestrian street 70 13 We hope you will be able to use the map to plan One-way street Very steep cycling routes from your home to school, college and Steep (more than 15%) workplace. We also hope that you will be able to Hill arrows - arrow points downhill see that it is possible to use your bike for other short Level crossing journeys - to the shops, to the village hall, to the leisure 72 12 centre, and so on. We have also given a list of places of Train station interest that are within cycling distance. 73 Bus station

School Rural Cafés (town cafés overleaf) 74 11 Hospital 75 Berkeley Toilet 29 Perfect Blend Coffee and Craft Shop, 1 High Street T: 01453 810088 A Bike shops (lettered) 10 1 Cafés (numbered) 40 Eastwood Nurseries, Eastwood Park a Places of interest (lettered) T: 01454 260288 Rec Leisure centre 09 4 Ley Bistro, The Green Place of worship T: 01452 740077 42 Stables Café, Sandfield Bridge, Canal Bank, Cycle parking Saul Junction T: 01452 741965 Pub 72 Library 08 3 Wyevale Garden Centre, Bath Road T: 01452 721081 Farmers’ market Post Office 2 Painswick Rococo Garden, Street Tourist Information Centre 07 T: 01452 813204 70 71 1 Prinknash Abbey Park, Cranham National Cycle Network routes T: 01452 812727 Steps - with a ramp for wheeling bikes 22 Slimbridge Boat Station café, Patch Bridge Stroud Towns 69 06 T: 01453 899273 Amberley Villages 21 Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust café Horsley Villages with Post Offices / local stores (phone to request entry fee be waived for using The representation of a track or path is no evidence of a public right of way. café only) Users of these routes do so at their own risk. 68 © Crown copyright and database rights 2015. Ordnance Survey 100019682. T: 01453 891900 05 Stroud outskirts 19 Lavender Bakehouse, 20 London Road, T: 01453 889239 20 The Kitchen, 7 High Street, 67 T: 01453 882655 04 18 Winstones Ice Cream Ltd, Greenacres, Bownham (enjoy an ice cream direct from the factory!) 66 T: 01453 873270

Tetbury 03 37 Edges Olde Tea Shoppe, 25a Church Street T: 01666 505660 38 Lyndsey’s, 19 Church Street T: 01666 503696 39 Veloton Cycles & Coffee, 22 Market Place 02 T: 01666 504343 5 Highfield Garden World, Road T: 01452 741444 01 41 Wickwar Tea Rooms, 43 High Street T: 01454 294899

00 Places of interest 65 p Berkeley Castle 64 www.berkeley-castle.com T: 01453 810303 99 g Bisley Wells Bisley q Cattle Country Adventure Park Berkeley Heath Farm, Berkeley www.cattlecountry.co.uk T: 01453 810510 98 k Peak picnic area (views and long barrow) o Edward Jenner Museum The Chantry, Church Lane, Berkeley www.jennermuseum.com T: 01453 810631 n Hetty Peglar’s Tump (roofed long barrow 97 with crawl-in access) f Museum in the Park Mansion House, Stratford Park, Stroud www.museuminthepark.org.uk T: 01453 763394 96 v National Arboretum Westonbirt, www.forestry.gov.org/westonbirt T: 01666 880220 r Manor (house and gardens) www.owlpen.com T: 01453 860261 d Painswick Rococo Garden 95 www.rococogarden.org.uk T: 01452 813204 b Prinknash Abbey Park (Bird and Deer Park) www.thebirdpark.com T: 01452 812727 s Ruskin Mill, Horsley Road, (lake-side walk, exhibitions, café) T: 01453 837500 94 e Saul Junction (meeting of the Stroudwater and Why cycle? Gloucester canals) www.cotswoldcanals.com i Church (William Morris school stained glass) Someone who cycles regularly becomes fitter and suffers less from ill-health. The more you cycle, the fitter you c St Augustine’s Farm High Street, 93 (working dairy farm) T: 01452 740277 become. Also, as more people cycle, the easier and safer the roads are to cycle on. And leaving the car at home h Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbridge and cycling for short journeys is a good way of reducing www.wwt.org.uk T: 01453 891900 pollution and the effects of climate change. a The Severn Bore view from Stonebench or Weir Green. Around 50 visible bores (1 - 5 star) occur each Cycling is one of the most efficient forms of transport: a 92 year after new or full moons, the biggest in Spring person pedalling a bike uses energy more efficiently than and Autumn. www.environment-agency.gov.uk and a gazelle or an eagle. And on a bicycle, you can go three leaflet at TICs or four times faster than a pedestrian, but use four times w Severn Trow Hulks, Purton Graveyard for old less energy in the process. Indeed, some disabled and barges along the banks of the . Miles elderly people who find difficulty in walking even a short 91 0 1 2 3 u Tortworth Chestnut (tree dating from the 1200s) distance, can go several miles on a bike. t William Tyndale Monument 0 1 2 3 4 5 Involvement in local activities depends on being able to l Mansion (incomplete 19th C mansion Kilometres attend: public transport in our towns and villages may be with access inside on open days. Enter park from unreliable or non-existent, but a bicycle can give freedom 90 west, not east) www.woodchestermansion.org.uk and autonomy at a low cost. And, as our list shows, there T: 01453 861541 are lots of interesting places within cycling distance of m Woodchester Park (National Trust home. For longer journeys, a bicycle and public transport parkland and lakes) enable you to get anywhere. j North Woodchester Churchyard (buried Roman 89 Orpheus mosaic, last revealed in 1973). Wickwar 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94

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MAP Tourist information centres Main offices 05 Stroud, Sub Rooms, George Street T: 01453 760960 Nailsworth, Old Market T: 01453 839222 For Purpose Tetbury, 33 Church Street T: 01666 503552 and Pleasure and also 05 Wotton-under-Edge, Heritage Centre, The Chipping T: 01453 521451 , Library, May Lane T: 01453 543059

Useful contacts Town centre Cycle training Miles • County Council Road Safety Team 2nd Edition 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 offers Bikeability cycle training through schools. £2.50 T: 01452 425662 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 04 [email protected] Kilometres 80 81 • Bikeability (cycling proficiency for the 21st century). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS www.bikeability.dft.gov.uk • Cyclecraft, by John Franklin ISBN 0 11 702051 6 First edition funded with contributions by: Town Cafés (rural cafés overleaf) (a book of skilled cycling techniques for adults). Council Parish Council Gloucestershire County Council Woodchester Parish Council Cycle-Aid (cycle accident solicitors), T: 0800 387815 Gloucestershire Rural Transport Partnership Cattle Country Adventure Park, Berkeley 28 Wyvale Garden Centre 13 Mills Café, 8 Withey’s Yard, Gloucestershire NHS Primary Care Trust National Arboretum, Westonbirt Cam [email protected] Dursley Town Council Noah’s Ark Cycles & Snowboards, Stroud 32 Berry Blue Bistro, Restaurant, Avening Road 55 High Street Free Help Line giving advice and support to all cyclists, Nailsworth Town Council Painswick Rococo Garden T: 01453 834624 T: 01453 752222 Miles Stonehouse Town Council Perfect Blend Coffee and Craft Shop, 5 Noel Lee Way 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 with legal help following accidents. Berkeley Stroud Town Council T: 01453 547595 14 Nosh, 18-20 Westward Road, Wotton-under-Edge Town Council Slimbridge Boat Station Environmental Transport Association Star Anise Arts Café, Stroud Hardwicke Parish Council Stonehouse 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 Stonehouse Accessories Ltd (cycle insurance and breakdown cover), Kings Stanley Parish Council 7 2i’s, 17 High Street T: 01453 767622 Kilometres Parish Council Stroud Valleys Cycling Club Dursley 84 85 8686 68 High Street, Weybridge KT13 8RS Big Lottery Fund: Awards for All 16 Star Anise Arts Café, Painswick Parish Council 30 Courtyard Café, T: 01453 828384 T: 0333 0001234 www.eta.co.uk Painswick Inn, Gloucester Street 12 Parsonage Street 6 The Bay Tree, 50 High Street Offers cycle rescue, repair, and puncture cover for UK Second edition funded by: T: 01453 840021 T: 01453 544246 T: 01453 822288 and Europe, if more than one mile from home. Takes 15 Upper Lock Café, Wallbridge 31 Hummingbird Café, 8 Wynne’s, 20 High Street Places of interest cycle and cyclist to station or repair shop. T: 01453 757772 43 Parsonage Street T: 07527 686304 p r (house and gardens) a Hotlines T: 01453 299276 17 Woodruffs Organic Café, Berkeley Castle The Severn Bore view from Stonebench or Weir Green. 24 High Street www.berkeley-castle.com T: 01453 810303 www.owlpen.com T: 01453 860261 Around 50 visible bores (1 - 5 star) occur each year after • Potholes: Gloucestershire County Council Stroud town T: 08000 514514, Thinktravel is a Department for Transport (DfT) funded initiative that gives T: 01453 759195 g Bisley Wells Bisley d Painswick Rococo Garden new or full moons, the biggest in Spring and Autumn. you information about sustainable travel options such as walking, cycling, Nailsworth 9 Black Book Café, 2 Nelson Street www.environment-agency.gov.uk and leaflet at TICs www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/potholes using the bus and train, and car sharing in Gloucestershire. q Cattle Country Adventure Park Berkeley Heath www.rococogarden.org.uk T: 01452 813204 www.thinktravel.info 23 Green Spirit, Market Street Potholes meeting minimum criteria will be repaired T: 01453 764509 b w Severn Trow Hulks, Purton Graveyard for old barges You can also follow Thinktravel on Twitter @thinktravelglos Wotton-under-Edge Farm, Berkeley www.cattlecountry.co.uk Prinknash Abbey Park (Bird and Deer Park) within one working day T: 01453 835735 43 Café Max, 21-23 Russell Street 33 Bunters Sandwich Company, T: 01453 810510 www.thebirdpark.com T: 01452 812727 along the banks of the River Severn. Stroud Valleys Cycle Campaign would like to thank: 24 Hobbs House Bakery, T: 01453 840999 • Glass, litter on cycle paths, roads, pavements: • TammyLynn Photography, 01453 766029, www.tammylynn.co.uk 6 Bear Street k Coaley Peak picnic area (views and long barrow) s Ruskin Mill, Horsley Road, Nailsworth (lake-side walk, u Tortworth Chestnut (tree dating from the 1200s) 4 George Street 10 Costa Coffee, 52-53 High Street T: 01453 754424 • the first edition working party members: Dominique Shead, Jeff T: 01453 845557 exhibitions, café) T: 01453 837500 t William Tyndale Monument North Nibley Cloves, Nigel Stanton, Sheila Booth and Tony Partridge, and to the T: 01453 839396 T: 01453 762831 o Edward Jenner Museum The Chantry, Church Lane, • The CTC has a website to report potholes in roads: army of volunteers who rode the roads for us. 34 Edge Coffee Shop, 44 Long Street Berkeley www.jennermuseum.com T: 01453 810631 e Saul Junction (meeting of the Stroudwater and l Woodchester Mansion (incomplete 19th C mansion with • Dominique Shead, Nigel Stanton, Nicholas James, Carol Kambites 27 Ruskin Mill café, Horsley Road 11 Fifteen, 15 George Street www.fillthathole.org.uk. Type in details and mark T: 01453 844108 Gloucester Sharpness canals) www.cotswoldcanals.com and Tony Partridge, who made the modifications for the second T: 01453 837527 T: 01453 751117 n Hetty Peglar’s Tump (roofed Neolithic long barrow access inside on open days. Enter park from west, not east) location, and CTC forwards details to the relevant edition. 35 Singing Teapot, 47 Long Street i www.woodchestermansion.org.uk 26 with crawl-in access) Selsley Church (William Morris school stained glass) T: 01453 861541 local authority for action. We would also especially like to acknowledge the work of Sheila Booth, The Coffee Pot, 8 Old Market 12 Kitsch Coffee Bar, T: 07889 865079 c m who was a staunch campaigner for cycling in the Stroud Valleys over the T: 01453 836100 Wharf, Ebley f Museum in the Park Mansion House, Stratford Park, St Augustine’s Farm High Street, Arlingham (working Woodchester Park Nympsfield (National Trust parkland past 20 years. 36 The Ark, 43 Long Street 25 The Olive Tree, T: 01453 847424 Stroud www.museuminthepark.org.uk dairy farm) T: 01452 740277 and lakes) T: 01453 521838 © Stroud Valleys Cycle Campaign 28 George Street T: 01453 763394 h Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbridge j North Woodchester Churchyard (buried Roman 1st edition 2007, 2nd edition 2015 T: 01453 834802 v National Arboretum Westonbirt, Tetbury www.wwt.org.uk T: 01453 891900 Orpheus mosaic, last revealed in 1973). www.forestry.gov.org/westonbirt T: 01666 880220

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Don’t waste an opportunity! Go to the leisure centre on your bike. And use this map to find the best route. Public transport links Dursley Pool and Sports Centre T: 01453 546441 to Gloucester and north Maidenhill Sports & Dance Centre, Stonehouse to and London 01 T: 01453 824366 eve Stonehouse Railway Station Nailsworth Recreation Centre to Gloucester and north Nailsworth Primary School to Swindon and London T: 01453 834822 93 00 Cam and Stratford Park Leisure Centre (and pools), Stroud to Gloucester and north T: 01453 766771 to Bristol and south Thomas Keble Leisure Centre, Eastcombe Key Stroud Bus Station, Merrywalks, Stroud T: 01452 770617 eve Nailsworth Bus Station, Old Market, Nailsworth

Wotton-under-Edge Pool (outdoor) 1 Dursley Bus Station, May Lane, Dursley T: 01453 842086 2 3 Cycleability gradations, Wotton-under-Edge Sports Centre in increasing difficulty Public transport contact numbers: 4 Katharine Lady Berkeley’s School 5 National Rail Enquiries T: 01453 842626 eve Miles T: 08457 48 49 50 www.nationalrail.co.uk 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 Designated traffic-free cycle paths Miles 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 00 Canal towpath, usually good surface National Express 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 T: 0871 7818181 www.nationalexpress.com Kilometres Canal towpath, variable surface 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 Stagecoach Useful paths, may be poorly surfaced Kilometres 75 76 84 85 T: 01452 418630 www.stagecoachbus.com Motorway Traveline: Pedestrian street T: 0871 2002233 www.traveline.info Fancy a read? Cycling organisations One-way street Dursley

Very steep Go for a ride! Steep (more than 15%) © Crown copyright and database rights 2015. Ordnance Survey 100019682. Stroud Valleys Cycle Campaign Hill arrows - www.facebook.com/StroudBike arrow points downhill Going green? 7 Oak Way, Stonehouse, GL10 2QJ Use the map to find the best route to your library. Level crossing www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/libraries T: 01453 827929 [email protected] Use your local markets, and travel by bike. Cycle map coordinator: Tony Partridge Train station Use the map to find your best route. Berkeley, School Lane T: 01453 810520 T: 01453 822451 Bus station Dursley Farmers’ Market Dursley, May Lane T: 01453 543059 [email protected] Miles 2nd Saturday Mar to Dec 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 School Minchinhampton, School Road T: 01453 885497 • We aim to promote and encourage cycling as a mode Nailsworth Farmers’ Market 99 Hospital of transport and as a leisure activity. 4th Saturday Nailsworth, Old Market T: 01453 832747 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 Toilet Painswick, Victoria Square T: 01452 814744 • We campaign for safer roads, better cycling facilities, Kilometres 74 75 Stroud Farmers’ Market Stonehouse, Elms Road T: 01453 823176 cycle-friendly town centres and the lowering of urban A Bike shops (lettered) Saturdays speed limits, and improved, and cohesive public Stroud, Lansdown T: 01453 751651 1 Cafés (numbered) Stroud Shambles Market transport systems. Bike shops Fridays and Saturdays Wotton-under-Edge, Ludgate Hill T: 01453 842115 • Membership is open to all, with low individual, family Stonehouse Wheelers Cycling Club a Places of interest (lettered) www.stonehousewheelers.org.uk Wotton Farmers’ Market Out of hours service T: 0845 230 5420 and concessionary rates. Rec Leisure centre 98 Secretary: Roy Jones Dursley Stonehouse E Noah’s Ark Bikes & 1st Saturday G Delta Bikes A Tarmac and Trail Snowboards CTC (the UK’s national cyclists’ organisation) T: 01453 298759 Place of worship 25 Silver Street 18 High Street T: 01453 822881. Bourne Mills, Brimscombe www.ctc.org.uk [email protected] T: 01453 545480. Bike sales, Bike sales, servicing, repairs, T: 01453 884738. Bike sales, Cycle parking Parklands, Railton Road, Guildford GU2 9JX Sunday afternoon rides throughout the year, afternoon servicing, repairs, parts and parts and accessories, bike hire. servicing, repairs, parts and Pub T: 01483 238301 and evening rides in summer. accessories. accessories. [email protected] Library Sustrans (the sustainable transport charity) Stroud F Square Deals on Wheels Membership fee includes monthly magazine, accident www.sustrans.org.uk Nailsworth B Cytek Farm Bungalow, Cowcombe Farmers’ market insurance, legal help, touring route information and J Black8Bikes 59 Westward Road, Cainscross 2 Cathedral Square, Lane T: 01285 760475. Post Office membership of the local club. College Green, Bristol BS1 5DD Stroud Road T: 01453 391977. T: 01453 753330. Bike sales, www.sdeals.com. Internet shop Bike sales, servicing, repairs, servicing, repairs, parts and Tourist Information Centre T: 0117 926 8893 and lightweight bike specialists. Miles Stroud Valleys Cycling Club (CTC local branch) parts and accessories. accessories. Sustrans is a leading UK charity that’s enabling people National Cycle Network routes 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 www.ctcwest.org.uk/stroud Tetbury to travel by foot, bike or public transport for more of South H eCycle UK Steps - with a ramp for Secretary: Clare Smith 10 John Street T: 01453 299171. I Veloton Cycles & Coffee wheeling bikes the journeys we make every day. Sustrans is behind 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 T: 07772 888267 Woodchester Electric bikes and accessories. 22 Market Place Kilometres many ground breaking projects including the National Stroud Towns 75 76 [email protected] D The Bike Works T: 01666 504343. Bike sales, Cycle Network (NCN), over 14,000 miles of traffic-free, C Halfords Amberley Villages A broad programme of regular weekly rides for all Frogmarsh Mill T: 01453 872824. servicing, repairs and clothes. quiet lanes and on-road walking and cycling routes Unit F, Merrywalks Horsley Villages with Post Offices/ abilities. Bike sales, servicing, repairs, across the UK. parts and accessories. T: 01453 761590. Bike sales, local stores parts and accessories. The representation of a track or path is no evidence of a public right of way. Users of these routes do so at their own risk.