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Wotton Walking Festival 2021 Walk Programme Friday 11Th June Wotton Walking Festival 2021 NOTE – All walks will start and finish at the Wotton Auction Rooms Car Park unless stated. Free parking is available in the Car Park. Please Be considerate to neighBouring houses. Walk Grading EASY – a walk on flat or gently undulating ground of not more than 5miles suitable for ‘new’ walkers MODERATE – A 5 to 10mile walk which may involve several short ascents or one longer one ENERGETIC – One or more steep climBs and a walk of over 10miles. Requires a good level of fitness. N.B. Whilst every effort has Been made to classify walks appropriately and point out areas of risk it is up to the individual to determine if a walk is suitaBle Walk Programme Friday 11th June Walk No Walk Description Walk Leader Max Start Time Approx Approx Start Point Finish Point Terrain Restrictions Other StuFF No Distance Time FRI1 Dawn Walk Up to the Westridge Woods Neil Hasson 15 4.30am 3 miles 2 hours Auction Rooms, Auction Rooms, A mix oF tarmac and well No dogs. Unsuitable We will be joined then over to Wotton Hill and Car Park Car Park marked out paths. One steep for pushchairs or by a bird watching back For Breakfast Moderate up and down. No Stiles wheelchairs expert No toilets on route FRI2 The This will be a walk to discover Verity 10 8am 6.5 miles Treasures of the wildlife that inhabits the Small (this will Tyley Bottom valley running up through Tyley include 3 hours Auction Rooms, Auction Rooms, Meadow land and some steep No dogs. Unsuitable Bring binoculars, Bottoms. Two local wildliFe and (Wotton some zig Car Park Car Park banks for pushchairs and cameras, a drink bird enthusiasts, who will Lions) zagging to wheelchairs and a snack attempt to identiFy birds and track No toilets on route mammal species along the walk, wildliFe) will lead the walk. It will be a slow walk as we try to track Moderate down, or listen For bird species. Round Enjoy wonderFul views back to Sarah 16 10am 6 miles 3 hours CharField CharField Mainly Flat Following Well behaved dogs Please bring drinks FRI3 CharField Wotton whilst taking a walk on Norton Village Hall, Village Hall footpaths and lanes with a welcome. Unsuitable and snacks. the footpaths from Charfield to Moderate GL12 8TG ,GL12 8TG couple of gentle inclines and for pushchairs and Avening Green and Tortworth, one steep decent on a lane. wheelchairs. No toilets on route round Daniel’s Wood, down to 2 stiles. Damery Bridge and back to CharField. WALK IS FULLY BOOKED FRI4 Up the A wander along the stream then Please bring drinks Sheeptrack up the sheeptrack to Coombe 7 miles 3 hours Auction Rooms, Auction Rooms, A mix oF tarmac and well Well behaved dogs and snacks. to the Hill then a wander through the Neil Hasson 15 1pm Car Park Car Park marked out paths. One steep welcome. Unsuitable Monument woods to the Tyndale Moderate up and down. 2 stiles for pushchairs and No toilets on route Monument and back to Wotton wheelchairs on the Cotswold Way FRI5 Wotton in Much oF the detailed scenery Roadside Roadside Please bring drinks the Ice Age around Wotton is a relic of parking parking and snacks. processes that operated on the Dave Green 15 6.30pm 2 miles 3 hours between between Some steeps ups and downs Well behaved dogs bedrock during the Ice Age, such AshcroFt Road AshcroFt Road and a couple of stiles welcome. Unsuitable No toilets on route as land sliding, mudflows. By Moderate and Goose and Goose for pushchairs and means oF a walk Green (layby at Green (layby at (please note limited parking. IF wheelchairs An optional post radio tower radio tower possible please car share) walk reFreshment near Ozleworth near Ozleworth in a Wotton / Blackquarries / Blackquarries hostelry Hill) Hill) FRI6 Walk Talk Meeting at the Festival carpark. Well behaved dogs Please bring your Wotton Walk up to Wotton Hill then via welcome. own reFreshments, social walk to the Cotswold Way and main Kay Keane 20 7pm 5 miles 2.5 hours Auction Rooms, Auction Rooms, An ascent, suitable For most, if you would like Tyndale path through the woods to Car Park Car Park up to Wotton Hill. AFter here Unsuitable for to have some, for Monument Nibley Monument, have a break (Walk Talk Moderate most oF the route is Fairly even wheelchairs. when we are at North there enjoying the great view Wotton) and the terrain is a hardened having a break at Nibley and and then walk back via the same mud path iF dry and muddy iF Most oF the walk on the monument back! path. Going up the tower, which wet. Suitable Footwear etc is well deFined paths so has many steps, For an even needed. may be suitable For higher viewpoint may be an pushchairs although option iF it is open then. there are a few kissing gates FRI7 Two A quick saunter past Spuncombe George We will pop into 2 Bottoms, Bottom For a cheeky pint at the Richardson 30 7.30pm 6 miles 4 hours Chipping Car Chipping Car A mix oF Footpaths and quiet Well behaved dogs pubs For a Two Pubs, New Inn, Waterley Bottom Park Park lanes. Some steep gradients welcome. Unsuitable reFreshment. This One Night followed by another in North (Wotton Moderate and 5 stiles for wheelchairs or is an evening walk Nibley and a night hike through Round pushchairs and a torch / the woods back to Wotton. Table) headtorch is recommended. Walk Programme Saturday 12th June Walk ReF Walk Description Walk Max Start Approx Approx Start Point Finish Point Terrain Restrictions Other StuFF Leader No Time Distance Time The opportunity to walk one of the new Cotswold Gateway routes in the company oF The Shaun 15 9.30am 6.5 miles 4 hours Chipping Car Chipping Car Some challenging sections, a No dogs. Unsuitable Please bring drinks SAT1 Three Peaks Costwold National Landscapes Pettitt Park Park mixture oF track, woodland, for pushchairs and and snacks. of Wotton Rural Skills OFFicer. As we walk Moderate fields and tarmac. Two steep wheelchairs. Ed will be on hand to answer climbs. Several stiles. No toilets on route any questions relating to rural skills and the training courses that the National Landscape team run. The walk takes in 3 of the hills surrounding the town ofFering Fantastic panoramic views A gentle meander across Fields Please ensure you SAT2 A Longer and lanes to the Somerset Neil Hasson 20 10am 17 miles 7 hours Auction Auction Rooms, A reasonably tough walk with Well behaved dogs. bring enough Food Explore Monument then a stunning hike Rooms, Car Car Park approx 2500 Feet of up's and Unsuitable For and drink For the up towards Tresham on the Energetic Park downs. A mix of tarmac, pushchairs or walk although Monarchs Way. The second part footpaths and fields. Several wheelchairs there is an option of the walk loops round stiles. to refill water Ozleworth Estate beFore bottles after dropping back down to Wotton. approx. 12 miles We will aim to maintain a steady WALK IS FULLY No toilets on route pace with regular breaks at the BOOKED top of the hills SAT3 An Slow Ways is a national project introduction to create a network of walking Rick 20 10.30am 9 miles 4 hours Auction Auction Rooms, A mixture oF well deFined Well behaved dogs. Refreshments and to Slow Ways routes that connect all cities and BerersFord Room, Car Car Park trails and quiet country lanes. Unsuitable For toilets available in with Wotton towns and thousands of villages Moderate Park There are some steep pushchairs or Dursley at approx. Area Climate across the UK. (Wotton sections. There are several wheelchairs the halfway point Action Join us as we walk the Slow Area stiles. Network Ways route From Wotton to Climate Dursley via Waterley Bottom Action and return along the Cotswold Network) Way via North Nibley SAT4 A Wotton A Family suitable walk, heading Julie Jenner 25 11am 4.5miles 2 hours Wotton Wotton Grass and Footpaths around No dogs. Unsuitable Please bring drinks Trotters out From the Community PARC Community Community the PARC and footpaths along for pushchairs or and snacks. Walk… Not along lanes and tracks into Fields (Wotton Easy PARC, PARC, with some tracks/lanes. wheelchairs No toilets on route trot or run ! of the surrounding area Trotters) Skatepark car Skatepark car Several stiles along the way! park park This walk takes in the peaceful woodlands oF Westridge and One steep, long, uphill section, Well behaved dogs Please bring drinks Woodlands Laycombe beFore turning back Stella Laing 20 1pm 6.5 miles 3 hours Auction Auction Rooms, uneven and maybe muddy welcome. Unsuitable and snacks. SAT5 of Wotton near Rushmire and heading over Rooms, Car Car Park paths, 5 stiles to climb, Fields for pushchairs or No toilets on route Coombe Hill to Conygres. Moderate Park with long and possibly wet wheelchairs Stunning views and the grass, a short section along possibility of seeing deer in the single track road, steep fields. descent at the end. Hillesley A loop encompassing Wortley, SAT6 Saunter Alderley, and Hillesley. Wotton 15 1.30pm 7miles 3-4 hours Auction Auction Rooms, Mainly Footpaths with a Well behaved dogs HopeFully a stop at HopeFully stopping For a quick Ladies Rooms, Car Car Park section on a quiet country welcome. Unsuitable The Fleece but reFreshment at The Fleece in Circle Moderate Park lane. A few steady climbs and for pushchairs or please bring drinks Hillesley (subject to Covid several stiles.
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