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Up & Around

Sat 5th Aug, 2023
10:00

Walk leader: Richard Harris
Organisation: Dursley Welcomes Walkers
Distance: 5 miles (8 km)
Estimated duration: 3 hours
Starting point: Lower Car Park – Leaf and Ground, Dursley Road, Dursley
Post code of start: GL11 6PP

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Details of the walk:
We walk around the pond and up to the top of the grounds on paths. We across Lister Lane and around Sheep Path Woods arriving at the top of Stinchcombe Hill near the Groundsmans Hut. We cross the Golf Course keeping to the footpaths and avoiding any wayward balls. . We continue down the green lane into Stinchcombe and enter the grounds of Piers Court. Evelyn Waugh once resided here, the author of Brideshead Revisited. We walk down the hill into the Church and across the green to the fields following the contour to Taits Hill. Carefully crossing the road we circle round the fields to enter into bottom of The Quarry. From here we return to the start via the road.
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