Wednesday 20th November 2019 Andoversford

From Andoversford to Whittington. Through Puckham Wood, Wardens Wood and Westwood to Brockhampton.

10 miles and 870 feet ascent

Sunday 10th November 2019 Dover's Hill

What a difference a day makes. Cold and wet the day before and lovely autumnal sunshine today. Starting from the car park on Dover's Hill we initially followed the Cotswold Way to Broadway. A coffee stop at Fish Hill car park and it being Remembrance Sunday we observed the two minute silence. On  to Broadway Tower with lots of people out enjoying the sunshine. Steeply down to Broadway to skirt the edge of town and take the underpass under the A44 to Saintbury for a lunch stop at the church. Through the fields to Buckle Street then back up to the hill to the start.

8 miles with 1100 feet ascent.

Broadway Tower comes into view.

Going down to Broadway with lots of people going up

Broadway

Under the A44 and a very rural underpass. They always have graffiti!

Lots of mud  - this was the worst

Lunch at the church in Saintbury

Shades of autumn all around

At the start of the way up and a strange place to find the signpost. It lets you know where the footpaths are but doesn't tell you where they are going.

On the way up

A fine view from the topograph on Dover's Hill.

Wednesday 6th November 2019 Cotswold Way - Coopers Hill to Severn Springs

The seventh leg of the Cotswold Way from Coopers Hill to Severn Springs. A mainly dull autumnal day and after all the recent rain there were a few muddy bits.

For most of the walk from Cooper's Hill to Birdlip you are in woodland so views are restricted but at this time of the year with a little sunshine the woodland is magical.

We came out of the woods just before Berrow Wake. On past the Air Balloon roundabout and up to the cafe on Crickley Hill for lunch. Rain had been forecast for the afternoon but it wasn't as heavy as expected.  We looped round past the Star College and up to Leckhampton Hill. A brief visit to the old area of quarrying and the chimney. Then back over Hartley Hill to Seven Springs.

11 miles and 1800 feet ascent

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The Witcombe Reservoirs

Autumn delight

Crickley Hill

Looking across to Chruchdown Hill

Berrow Wake

Air Balloon roundabout and the place of the 'missing link'

The mountain bike tracks running down from Birdlip

Lunch at the Crickley Hill cafe

The chimney on Leckhampton Hill

Across Cheltenham to Cleeve Hill

Sunday 3rd November 2019 Bromsberrow

A walk around the very southern part of the Malvern Hills. We starte from the church by Bromesberrow Court, through Bromesberrow and then through the fields between the two lakes below Bormesberrow Place. On to Whiteleaved Oak then south to the trig point on Chase End Hill. Until this point the weather had been gloomy and cold but as the sun came through it became much warmer. Gently down from Chase End Hill to join the Three Choirs Way before going up and around the eastern side of Ragged Stone Hill, to Hollybush. Then around the western side of Ragged Stone Hill with a stop for lunch. We could see May Hill and Sugar Loaf (30 miles away). Back to Whiteleaved Oak and another path on the west side of  Chase End Hill.

9 miles and 1300 feet of ascent.

Chase End Hill

Ragged Stone Hill in the distance

Three Choirs Way

Wonderful autumn colours in the sunshine

Eastnoor Castle

Sugar Loaf in the hazy distance

Ragged Stone Hill