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| Looking back towards Painswick |
Walk #27 - Painswick
Gloucestershire
Overall Rating - ✪✪✪✪
Suggested Difficulty - Moderate
My Difficulty Rating - ✪✪✪
Suggested Time - 5h
Actual Time Taken - 4h 38m
Distance in book - 16km
Map my walk Distance - 18.3km
Been a while again, but today was a day worth waiting for! A chilly but sunny February day in the picturesque Cotswolds was just what the doctor ordered. The walk starts on the main street (New street) through the small town of Painswick. There's a small car park or road parking next to St Mary's church.
This walk got a 4 star from me, mainly for the variety of scenery as you pass through woodland, valleys, commons and nature reserves. The route is fairly straight forward to follow and if you make any mistakes in navigating (which I definitely did NOT do...) you can usually find where you need to be by just heading in the right direction as the lanes/roads surrounding the route are easy to stumble across. There are also plenty of other footpaths around the nature reserves and woodland areas to explore if you want to stray from the guide.
The walk was quite lengthy which added to it's difficulty, it's probably something to do with the severe lack of fitness at the moment too! There is only a couple of steep climbs, the worst of which come at the end of the route, ergh! Due to the time of year, the mud slowed us down a bit but despite this, it wasn't that difficult to stay within the time limit given by the book.
As you can see for yourself, the area covered as part of this walk has plenty of variety and all of it is rather gorgeous. I'd be lying if I said that I didn't go home and look at right move, just to see how much of my impending lottery winnings I would need to spend to own one of the stunning houses we walked past on today. I don't think a teacher's salary is going to cut it!
Walking through the valleys and admiring the Cotswold stone buildings was my personal highlight of this walk.
I would highly recommend a visit to this beautiful part of the country and walking around off the beaten track is one hundred percent a great way to truly see the best of it.
Thanks to Neil for the company and, as always, thanks for reading.
Stef.
Map my walk Distance - 18.3km
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| New Street, Painswick, start/finish |
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| Painswick stream |
This walk got a 4 star from me, mainly for the variety of scenery as you pass through woodland, valleys, commons and nature reserves. The route is fairly straight forward to follow and if you make any mistakes in navigating (which I definitely did NOT do...) you can usually find where you need to be by just heading in the right direction as the lanes/roads surrounding the route are easy to stumble across. There are also plenty of other footpaths around the nature reserves and woodland areas to explore if you want to stray from the guide.
The walk was quite lengthy which added to it's difficulty, it's probably something to do with the severe lack of fitness at the moment too! There is only a couple of steep climbs, the worst of which come at the end of the route, ergh! Due to the time of year, the mud slowed us down a bit but despite this, it wasn't that difficult to stay within the time limit given by the book. |
| Blackstable Wood |
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| Getting arty with snow drops |
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| The first Daffodil I've seen in 2018! |
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| Down Farm |
As you can see for yourself, the area covered as part of this walk has plenty of variety and all of it is rather gorgeous. I'd be lying if I said that I didn't go home and look at right move, just to see how much of my impending lottery winnings I would need to spend to own one of the stunning houses we walked past on today. I don't think a teacher's salary is going to cut it!
Walking through the valleys and admiring the Cotswold stone buildings was my personal highlight of this walk.
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| Looking over towards Slad |
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| St Mary's Church, Painswick |
I would highly recommend a visit to this beautiful part of the country and walking around off the beaten track is one hundred percent a great way to truly see the best of it.
Thanks to Neil for the company and, as always, thanks for reading.
Stef.
