Meandering Pub Walks in Gloucestershire.


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This book contains ten easy to follow walks with clear instructions as to access where to start, type of pub and opening times, all the walks are circular and they range in distances from 2 miles to 5 miles depending on how far you want to walk. There is also a walk time but this is just a guide to estimate if you can do the walk before closing time?




Pub Walks in Gloucestershire


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A collection of thirty circular walks based on pubs in the Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud and Cirencester areas. This book includes sketch maps and photographs.




Meandering in Gloucestershire


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Meandering in Gloucestershire contains ten easy to follow walks with access to start and clear walking pattern to follow. There are photos of areas you visit, there are woods, green lanes, tracks and quiet country lanes to walk down through villages and hamlets. Gloucestershire is the land of the Cotswolds with its open valleys. When high up on the hills the meadows look like a work of art, with its fields looking like a fine tapestry worked on the back drop of green fields. There is the sweet scent of wild flowers lingering in air and the only sounds are from bumble bees and the gentle trill of the song birds. The colourful crops are like the painters palate with every colour you can think of all around you giving a warm glow as you stroll through the country side. One of the walks is in Slad which forms part of the Golden Valleys along with Cam, Nailworth, Painswick and Chalford with Stroud as the industrial centre of the Cotswolds. Laurie Lee poet and author came from Slad with is most famous book being Cider with Rosie. Laurie Lee said about the area. Greener and more decently lush than is decent to the general herbaceous smugness of the English country side.




The Cotswolds Year Round Walks


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Discovery Walks in Worcestershire


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Features 30 circular walks that are evenly spaced across the varied terrain of the county. This book gives an introduction to Worcestershire's landscape. Each route visits a heritage site, market town or village which enables you to learn about the area's cultural life.




Windrush Meander


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At some 40 miles in length, the River Windrush is the longest of the Cotswolds tributaries of the River Thames. Its source is in the heart of the Gloucestershire Cotswolds and its confluence in the flatlands of the Oxfordshire Thames basin. During its journey the Windrush flows through beautiful rolling landscapes and quintessentially English villages and towns with delightful names such as Temple Guiting, Temple Power, Great Rissington and Bourton-on-the-Water. In this guide, Martin Marais provides walkers the chance to walk the entire length of the river along a 48-mile route which he designed for his own enjoyment. Starting at the source of the River Windrush, near the hamlet of Taddington, the walk continues through the heart of the Cotswolds, through remote peaceful countryside and bustling Cotswolds towns and finally onto its confluence with the Thames at Newbridge where well-earned refreshments can be had from a choice of two hostelries. This guide contains a wealth of useful maps, information, historical facts and glorious photographs and will be a valuable companion to anyone walking the Windrush Meander.




Cider with Rosie


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At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosie is a charming memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a world that is tangibly real and yet reminiscent of a now distant past. In this idyllic pastoral setting, unencumbered by the callous father who so quickly abandoned his family responsibilities, Laurie's adoring mother becomes the centre of his world as she struggles to raise a growing family against the backdrop of the Great War. The sophisticated adult author's retrospective commentary on events is endearingly juxtaposed with that of the innocent, spotty youth, permanently prone to tears and self-absorption. Rosie's identity from the novel Cider with Rosie was kept secret for 25 years. She was Rose Buckland, Lee's cousin by marriage. "From the Paperback edition."




From Source to Sea


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Authors, artists and amblers have always felt the pull of the Thames, and now Tom Chesshyre is following in their footsteps. He’s walking more than 200 miles from the Cotswolds to the North Sea. Seeing some familiar sights through new eyes, Chesshyre explores the living present and remarkable past of England’s longest and most iconic river.




Walking in Norfolk


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This guidebook describes 40 day walks across Norfolk ranging in length from 4 to 12 miles. The walks are divided into five sections: the northeast coast and the Broads; south Norfolk, the Yare and Waveney; North Norfolk and the Coast; Central Norfolk and Breckland; and West Norfolk and the Fens. Each walk is described step-by-step, illustrated with 1:40K OS map extracts and packed with historical, geological and other information about the landscape the route passes through. All walks are circular, along footpaths, bridleways and quiet country lanes, and some use parts of long-distance paths, including the Peddars Way, Norfolk Coast Path, Boudica's Way and Weavers Way. The Fenland region of Norfolk's far west is flat and low-lying, as are the marshes and waterways of the Broads in the east, but between these two extremes there is a great deal of topography going on. The county is far more varied than most outsiders imagine, with several distinct and unique landscapes. As well as Broads and the Fens, it has the sandy Brecks, rolling farmland, ancient woodland, meandering rivers and the gorgeous North Norfolk coast with its beaches, shingle banks, salt marshes and tidal mud flats.