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5. Cleeve Hill Common ring

This breathtaking walk leads you BUS STOP over open hilltops, across streams and through woodlands, 1 immersing you in one of the Golf Club 2 Elder Grove country’s most fascinating and Start precious habitats – limestone Cleeve Postlip Common grassland. Over half of this Hall Cotswold Way wildflower and butterfly rich Golf Course natural resource is within the Postlip and some of the B4632 Farm 3 finest examples are on Cleeve Bath Common. The unsurpassed views along this route therefore, are the perfect backdrop for getting N Cleeve Common Postlip Woodpeckers even closer to the outstanding Warren natural beauty of the Cotswold

Golf Way. C Breakheart o Course t s Plantation Distance: w o l 6 miles or 9.7km. Shorter route 4 d miles or 6.4km. W a y Duration: 3½ - 4½ hrs (Shorter 2 - 3 hours) 0 Miles 0.5 4 Difficulty: 5 Moderate, no stiles but some steep Wontley sections. (Shorter: Easy, no stiles 0 Kms 0.5 Farm and mostly level) Public transport: 11/17 No. 606 or W1/W2 from / - ask field gate and along a hedged the top, pass through the gate and the golf course for flying gold balls for golf course junction. (See the section, taking care to follow the across the paddock, turning right and head down towards the reward ‘Explore the Cotswolds’ public Cotswold Way markers, to a second when you meet the road. Carry awaiting you at the clubhouse. A transport guide or visit www. metal field gate. on past the stable, and continue to rest at the end of your walk is a follow the signs through the woods. chance to plan the next... traveline.info 2 Through the gate and then After the steep climb snaking up the decision – for the short cut For a shorter route that avoids Start/Finish: the wooded hillside the path will see the last paragraph. For the the steep climbs but doesn’t miss Grid reference SO 989/272 take you along a field edge and main walk follow the Cotswold out on the views, turn sharp right (OS Explorer sheet 179) under some pylons before arriving Way which is the middle of the immediately after the second gate Postcode GL52 3PW at a kissing gate and a track. three tracks facing you, angling to leave the Cotswold Way and Refreshments: downhill. Through the gate at the 4 Now leave the Cotswold Way follow the track. The track splits Bar café/restaurant at Golf Club. bottom, past the high stone wall of by turning right, and follow the into three after about 100 metres. Toilets and extra parking for the 17th century Postlip Hall, past track down to reach the deserted Keep to the lowest track on the left customers. various farm buildings and out onto Wontley Farm buildings. Turn right and walk along the side of the hill. Parking a driveway. Turn right, still on the through a gateway and follow the Eventually, the track merges with Drive up narrow lane signed to Cotswold Way, and pass through path slowly uphill through the another track rising from the gully gold club and at the top cross a Postlip Farm (There is a detour fields towards the radio masts in on the left. At this point, continue signposted for when the farmyard is the distance. Pass through a gate in the same direction, ignoring the cattlegrid and turn left then right busy!) down a field to a stream at back onto the common and take steeper path to the left and the into old quarry car park. the edge of a small wood. the path on the right towards the indistinct path rising steeply to the waymarker post, and continue to right. Continue a gentle ascent to 1 Start at the quarry car 3 At any time of the year, the head for the masts. reach a broad stone track. park across the track from golf shade of the woodlands and the clubhouse. Leave the car park and calming sound of peacefully flowing 5 At the masts, turn right to Turn left and follow this track turn right to follow the track with water make this little bridge the follow the fenceline until you meet across the common towards the the golf course on the right and a ideal spot to stop and rest awhile the Cotswold Way. Continue right three radio masts. As the track stone wall (and a wonderful view of before the climbs ahead. When you along the edge of the escarpment, peters out head directly to the Winchcombe nestled in its valley) are ready, cross over the bridge and past some of the finest views in masts and rejoin the route at point on your left. Through a metal follow the path up to the right. At . Take care crossing over 5.

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