Both sides of the Golden Valley

South Cotswold Group

We are the South Cotswold Ramblers. We open the way for everyone in our local community to enjoy the pleasures of walking.

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a welcome pack teeming with top tips plus our quarterly Walk magazine
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Overview

Rodborough Common down to the canal then up to Claypits Wood, Park wood down to Brimbscombe and back up the other side.Two long steep climbs and one long steep descent on a lane. Not many stiles, muddy in places but hopefully a bit drier by May.

Terrain 3 Quite hilly.

Maps L162/E168

Saturday, 25 May 2024

Start time:: 10:00 am
Estimated finish time:: 1:30 pm

Difficulty:: Moderate
Distance:: 9.7km / 6.0mi
Ascent:: 334.7m / 1098ft
Type:: circular

Website:: http://tinyurl.com/mapRodbComCP1

Features

Car parking available

Starting point

Grid reference:: SO 85152 04041
Nearest postcode:: GL5 5BL
what3words:: reception.gurgling.subsystem

Start time:: 10:00 am

Rodborough, Car Park just above Fort on Rodborough Common. (GL5 5BL)

Upcoming walks with South Cotswold Group

Church to Church

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

Chavenage to Avening

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.0 miles

Leighterton Light

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.0 miles

Brimpsfield Park Caudle Green

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.0 miles

Birding While You Walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.0 miles

Cotswold Vales and Periphery Hill

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

To and Frome

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.0 miles

Inspiring Tetbury

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.0 miles

Fields, Frome and Farmshop

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.5 miles

Both sides of the Golden Valley

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

We will not be seeing Eric at Clapton-on-the-Hill

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.5 miles

Not the mince pie walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.0 miles

Bussage and Chalford

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Power to the people

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.5 miles

Cancelled: Tortworth Trees

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.7 miles

Tortworth Trees

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.7 miles

Canal paths & railway lines

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.5 miles

Strawberries for Lunch?

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.0 miles

See no hares

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.5 miles

Eric Morecombe walk - all the right walks but not in the right order!

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.7 miles

Following the Thames path

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.5 miles

A New Start Point

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.3 miles

Bath Skyline Walk (with a bus ride)

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.5 miles

Severn Valley to Painswick Valley

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.0 miles

Tantalising Toadsmoor

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 3.3 miles

Around Painswick

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.2 miles

Battling Over Lansdown

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.8 miles

Stanway Gardens and Fountain

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.0 miles

Hill - top Turn

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.5 miles

The 5 Church Trail

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.9 miles

Summer Picnic Walk

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 5.0 miles

Join the Ramblers and enjoy

unlimited free access to 50,000 Ramblers group walks
a library jam-packed with thousands of tried-and-tested routes
a welcome pack teeming with top tips plus our quarterly Walk magazine
exclusive discounts from our partners
knowing your support is opening up more places to walk and helping more people discover the joy of walking

Join now for just £3.42 per month