Dursley Walking Festival 2019 Wednesday 2nd to Sunday 6th October Free walks for a range of abilities exploring the glorious countryside and heritage of Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds Key to symbols Welcome to Dogs Welcome Well behaved dogs on a short Dursley lead welcome Registered assistance dogs Walking Only registered assistance dogs are allowed on this walk Festival 2019. Please bring a drink The annual walking festival has put the Packed Lunch Dursley area firmly on the Please bring a packed lunch map. Suitable for Buggies It’s a fantastic place to walk and enjoy some Bus Walk Please bring your bus pass or stunning countryside bus fare on this walk views around this part of Gloucestershire and the Camera It is recommended you bring a Cotswolds. camera on this walk Booking Essential Please follow the instructions in the listing for booking these walks Follow us on Facebook Family Friendly Walks A family friendly walk for all the Email us at [email protected] family to enjoy Telephone us at 07743 307686 Cafe or pub These walks will stop at a local Visit our website pub or cafe, at walkers own cost, during or after the walk www.dursleywelcomeswalkers.org.uk NotesInformation to help youfor joining enjoy our our festival walks Our 2019 festival programme has What to bring on the walk. Accommodation and been put together to include walks Travel to suit varying abilities and Appropriate footwear and clothing interests. Each walk is typically must be worn. There have been A range of accommodation is graded as follows: reports of more ticks than usual in available throughout the area. recent years. For this reason we Please visit Easy - An easy paced walk over suggest that you wear long www.dursleytowncouncil.gov.uk varied terrain with only gentle sleeved shirts and trousers rather Travel and Transport slopes (No longer than 4 miles) than shorts. Moderate - An easy paced walk Please ensure that you take a drink By Train over varied terrain with some hilly with you and a snack or packed The nearest railway station to sections (4 - 7 miles) lunch where necessary. Dursley is Cam and Dursley Hard - A slightly faster paced Please do not feed any animals station, on the main Bristol to walk with varied terrain and hills (7 you meet on the walks and make Birmingham line, between Yate - 10 miles) sure that you take all litter home and Gloucester. The station is with you. served by Stagecoach bus Strenuous - A varied all day services that will take you to the walk covering longer distances Dogs on Festival Walks centre of Cam or Dursley. (10+ miles) For details of train times visit Dogs are allowed on some walks The duration of each walk has www.gwr.com (see individual walk details). The been estimated by the walk leader. Bus Information Sometimes walks take longer than owner is always responsible for estimated e.g. if there are large their dog. Dogs must be well behaved Stagecoach buses from Bristol, numbers of walkers or difficult and kept on a short lead and under Berkeley, Thornbury, Gloucester, conditions underfoot on the day or control at all times. The owner Stroud, and more all serve Dursley. it is necessary to change the route must ensure that their dog does not For details on bus services visit: slightly due to path closures. trip, alarm or inconvenience other www.stagecoachbus.com/timetables people or cause damage. They Each walker is responsible for their Car parking own safety and for determining must clean up after their dog. If a their capability to complete the walk leader thinks that your dog is Long stay parking is available at chosen walk. Attendance at a not sufficiently well behaved you the car park in Hill Road Dursley. walk/event is at your own risk. will not be allowed to join the walk. ST 753980 GL11 4JQ and Long The walk leaders are in charge of Walks may contain stiles which Street, Dursley ST758982 GL11 the walk. Their decision on dogs could find difficult to 4HR. negotiate. When walking through participation is final. The walk 3 hour parking is available at a field containing livestock or leaders are experienced but have Castle Street by the Pulse and horses, people with dogs should to take your word that you are behind Sainsbury’s supermarket. sufficiently fit for your chosen walk. walk at the back of the group. If you park on the road please do The Dursley area is hilly and many Dogs must not worry livestock. If not inconvenience residents, other of the walks will be strenuous - the livestock/horses become road users or pedestrians. please consider any health issues threatening then please let the dog you may have before deciding to go. The dog will be able to run For walks starting at Cam there is join the walks and advise walk away and the livestock/horses’ a free public car park in front of leaders of any concerns before interest will be diverted from the Cam Parish Council Offices. setting off. walkers to the dog. Additional parking available in Cam Please do not walk ahead of the Tesco car park but please ensure leader unless asked. Family Friendly you register at Tesco Customer Many of the walks involve stiles Under 18’s and vulnerable Service desk. and/or kissing gates so we people must be accompanied by a For walks starting in locations other apologise that, for this reason, responsible adult. than Dursley then please see walk many of the walks may not be details for information on parking. accessible for people with some The Dursley Walking Festival Updated information on car parking mobility issues or may be includes several family friendly will be entered onto our website. unsuitable for push chairs. Please walks which are marked out by this Generally festival walks are free – check with walk leaders in advance. symbol. donations to Dursley Welcomes Photos will be taken throughout the festival and may be used for publicity purposes. Walkers or to the organising If you do not wish to be in any photographs please advise the walk leader. groups are at the walker’s discretion. Dursley Walking Festival 2019 - Programme of Walks Start points Walk Start Duration Distance Walk Titles Meeting Points Grid No Time (Hrs) (Miles) Reference Wednesday 2nd October 1 10:00 AM Curses, Curses By Old Crown Uley ST 791 986 4.5 to 5 8 2 10:00 AM An Ornithological Ramble Market Place, Dursley ST 756 981 5.5 6.5 Lay By on A38, North entrance to 3 10:00 AM A Riparian Ramble SO 751 039 5.5 10 Cambridge 4 10:00 AM Cam’s Historic Graveyards Outside Berry Blue, Cam SO 749 003 2 2 Building Distance Health Seat by Post Box between Post 5 10:30 AM SO 749 003 1.5 3 Walk Office and Tesco, Cam 6 10:30 AM Bus Walk - North Nibley Dursley Bus Station ST 754 982 2 3 Leaf and Ground, Up and Leaf and Ground, Dursley Road, 7 2:00 PM ST 741 993 2 4.5 Around Dursley Pevsner’s Buildings of England Thursday 3rd October Uley Bury and Ancient Owl The Green, Uley. Outside the Old 8 10:00 AM ST 792 986 6 6.3 Woodland Crown 9 10:00 AM Bagpath and Beyond Hunters Hall Inn, Kingscote ST 813 960 5.5 9.5 Cam Stone Stiles and 10 10:00 AM Outside Cam Parish Council Offices SO 749 003 2 3.5 Severn Views Walk North Nibley Monument and Car Park opposite The Old Spot, 11 10:00 AM ST 754 981 4 to 5 7 beyond. Dursley 12 1:00:PM Cam and the Winterbothams Outside Berry Blue, Cam SO 749 003 3 2 A circular walk to Breakheart 13 2:00 PM Market Place Dursley ST 756 981 2.75 5 Quarry and Rockstowes By Bennet Jones Estate Agent, 14 2:00 PM Walking for Health ST 755 982 1 1.5 Parsonage Street, Dursley Friday 4th October Dursley to Waterley Bottom, 15 10:00 AM Market Place, Dursley ST 756 981 3 5.5 Stancombe and back 16 10:00 AM Kingscote Nailsworth Round Hunters Hall Inn, Kingscote ST 813 960 5.5 10 Autumn Woodland and 17 10:00 AM Ashen Plains Campsite ST 760 966 3 7 Coffee at Uley Bus/Walk to Woodchester 18 10:20 AM Bus Station, May Lane, Dursley. ST 754 982 7.5 8.5 Mansion 12:00 19 Owlpen Valley Circular Walk The Car Park, Owlpen Manor, Uley ST 800 498 1.5 3 Noon 20 1:30:PM Walkies with Dursley Lions The Lions Den, May Lane, Dursley. ST 754 981 2 2 HRS Heritage walk - 21 2:00 PM Market Place, Dursley ST 756 981 1.5 to 2 2 Dursley Town Centre Apple Scrumping at Ponderosa, Twyditch Lane, 22 4:00 PM SO 713 008 1 0.25 Breadstone Breadstone. Friday Evening 7:00 PM - Quiz Dursley Walking Festival 2019 - Programme of Walks Dursley Walking Festival 2019 - Programme of Walks Start points Walk Start Duration Distance Walk Titles Meeting Points Grid No Time (Hrs) (Miles) Reference Saturday 5th October 8:00 AM to The Lantern Way self Dursley Town Hall, Market Place, 23 ST 756 981 At own pace 14 9:00 AM guided challenge Dursley 7 hr walk Berkeley to Dursley via Dursley Bus Station, May Lane, 24 9:30 AM ST 754 982 plus bus 12 Tyndale Monument Dursley journey. Geology and Scenery 25 10:00 AM Hunters Hall Inn, Kingscote ST 813 960 7 6 between Kingscote & Horsley 26 10:00 AM 5 Churches Walk St James Church, Dursley ST 757 981 5 7 Heritage Walk - Uley Road 27 10:00 AM Market Place, Dursley ST 756 981 2.5 3 and Woodmancote Area.