Dunn's Hill and Monk's Hole

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Is Farmcote 0 0.25 mile Herbs Langley Hill Distance: 4 miles /6.4kms 275m 0 0.5 km Farmcote hire Way Glouc ters LangleyDuration: 2 hours es E Hill Farm Farmcote Church Difficulty: Strenuous - follow the k c Stancombe a r Winchcombe Way out and return via Farm T n e Ha d the Gloucestershirer Way. p ve ys m La a ne Tourist Information Centre C Start/finish: Back Lane car park - £1 all Nottingham Hill S al W Winchcombe t in ch 279m Rushbury day. Toilets 20p in car park. St. Peters Church W co mbe House B W D a Way A inchcom Pig pen y be Way Refreshments: Winchcombe Lodge C Ascent: 700 feet/215 metres St Kenelm’s ay W Longwood d Well ol Farm w Sudeley Hill Dryﬁeld ts Langle 2 Co Farm Farm Parky Broo kin Back LaneB car463 park and exit via the steps signposted Town Centre.e Turn n Sudeley r u © OpenstreetMap contributors and WWaW o Castle left at the High Street and bshortly after, Apple Tree Is . carefully cross the road andR enter Castle The Home Pub 2 3 Parks 6 fields and the gradient levels out. 4 Street beside the White Hart pub. Follow B tswold Way Co Postlipthe pavement down, across the bridge Follow the track keeping the drystone Mill Cricket C o r over the River Isbourne andClub shortlyn wall on your right until you reach a field d Postlip e Golf Club House after turn left between some cottagesa B gate by a lane (Salt Way). Hall n e e & refreshments L s signposted the Isbourne Way A. a m n o Sudeley Corndean e o Turn left (following the Winchcombe Way r Farm B Lodge r At the end go through the gate and bear o sign and follow the lane to Little Farmcote o k Postlip 45° right across the ridge and furrow field Farm; continue along the lane to a fork in Farm to a gate in the far corner of the field. the road and take the left fork to a gate. Rising Looking towards Sudeley Castle (if you are lucky you might have a view of the Sun Go through the gate and turn right along Parks Wadﬁeld y Topograph left to a plantationa of trees. Go through Stanway fountain ahead.) ApproxFarm 25 metres Washpool a lane for approx 120 metres, turn left Farm W e No Man’s two gates andb the path bears right. Keep after the gate on the left is a path by a at the Winchcombe Way finger post m Patch Car parkingstraight onco towards the field boundary Deadmanbury ch field gateE . Turn left through the gate and opposite a cottage B. Enter the fieldfor Belas Knap in Gate Woodbine ahead.W Keeping the boundaryNewmeadow on your left you will follow the Gloucestershire Way 2 3 aiming for the telegraph post. From there 6 Farm 4 Cleeve Common Source of proceed to a gate. (At this point avoid back to Winchcombe. B Castle y R. Isbourne Postlip Warren towards a bridge on the right handa side Rock W following the farm track bearing right ld 286m hedge. Cross the bridge and bearo left to Cross the field to the gate, go through w towards a gate to leave the route). Follow s Humblebee Breakhearta gate. Go through the gate andt proceed and across the next field to another o Cottages Plantation C the way markers to the gate, continue straight ahead across the field to a gap beside the pen, containing Gloucester Old gate with glorious views looking Southam in the fieldHill boundary Barn on your right. Go towards Toddington, the Malverns and Spot pigs to another gate at the far end Spoonley . 322m Farm Waterhatch W through the gap and bear 45° left towards Winchcombe railwaySpoonley station Villa below.Wood of the pen. The path turns left up a track Limehill S i ou ane n tham L Solitary ch the external corner of the fence. Follow Wood c to a field gate with a gate on the left hand Continue ahead and go through a field Tree o m the fence to a gate and enter the field. b Belas side. D Enter the next field and continue gate before turningColes’s left Hill up a short steep 5 e 3 4 W C Knap along the track ahead. The countryside A Post a o Here the gradient starts to steepen, slope to a stile. Cross and continue up Ellenborough Stone y tsw ol Park Hotel Blocks d W continue uphill keeping near the fence changes from pastureland to open arable to another stile in a wood. Follow the ay GWR on your left and towards a waymarked path through the trees before it starts Station Queen’s Wood post situated where the ground levels to descend down some steep steps to off. Here is a good place to take a rest another stile. Cheltenham Radio Dew pond and admire the views along the Sudeley Race Course Masts . 330m Cross the stile to leave the scrubby area Wontley Farm Valley, Cleeve Common and Winchcombe and follow the right hand field boundary (Disused) nestling in the valley below. Continue ahead for approx 50 metres and WWaW hope you enjoy the walk, however the walk is undertaken at your sole risk and WWaW have no responsibility for loss, damage, turn left through a gate C and continue injury or interpretation. Every possible care has been taken to walking uphill beside the fence on your Gloucester Old Spot pigs ensure the information given was accurate at the time of creation. Prestbury No ve rt on Pittville Lane to the far side of the long field and look work-for-hire ever since in the Western for a gate on your right. Go through and world, and gave rise to such expressions turn left to follow the path down to some as “being worth one’s salt”. trees. (There is a fine view of the Malvern Hills from here). Continue down through Monks Hole the trees and take care as the path can be One winter with snow falling, a monk slippery in places. from Winchcombe was visiting his brethren at Hailes. On his return journey At the bottom of the slope bear left and as darkness fell he reached the summit of join a track which eventually leads to a the hill. Snow had driven into the hollows field gate and radio mast. Before you and hidden all trace of a path, the monk reach the gate as the track turns left, fork fell into one of the snow drifts, never to right down to a gate in some trees. Go rise again. He was not found until the through and follow the path to a gate; go snow had melted. through the paddock to meet a gate by a lane. Ridge and Furrow Turn right and then immediate left to go In the Middle Ages each strip was through another gate to cross the field to managed by one small family, within large the far side with a large sign ‘PATH’. Go common fields, and the location of the through the gate and turn right towards ploughing was the same each year. The another large sign ‘PATH’ and head to the movement of soil year after year gradually left of the farm buildings to leave the field built the centre of the strip up into a via a gate slightly hidden from view in the ridge, leaving a dip, or “furrow” between corner. each ridge. Go through and turn right to follow the Traditional ploughs turn the soil over in fence on your right before striking out one direction, to the right. This means that across the field in the same direction to a the plough cannot return along the same gate on the far side. furrow. Go through and take care emerging from The ridge and furrows you see today are the hedgerow to join a lane (Rushley evidence the land became grassland and Lane), turn left to shortly meet a gate has not been ploughed since. on your right, passed through on your outward journey. © Winchcombe Walkers are Welcome 2017 Go through and bear left across the field towards the houses and back along the path to Castle Street. Turn right and follow the road back into the centre of Winchcombe. Salt Way These ancient routes radiated from Droitwich in varying directions and the salt ways predated Roman roads and drovers routes. A route for the distribution of salt is believed to have been from Worcester via Toddington, Hailes and Winchcombe on through Lechlade and on to the coast in Hampshire, Winchcombe was very much a crossroads for trading routes.

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