This was a 5.5 mile figure of eight walk done with Robin on his day off. Robin is a inexhaustible source of Cotswold walks and has taken on the role as my Yorkshire Three Peaks trainer... We drove from Leckhampton to The Camp and parked just off the road, crossing into farmland hurdling the electric fences and entering wonderful woodland on Famish Hill - even spotting a deer running across the path ahead of us. We followed the track towards the remote Dillay Farm and crossed the stream by a small rickety bridge, avoiding the geese. Climbing up the other side of the valley, we passed an abandoned gamekeeper's cottage surrounded by snowdrops and continued to follow Dillay Brook at the bottom of the valley with woodlands on our left. We followed the track towards Piedmont, crossed an area known as The Scrubs and entered High Wood, joining Southmead Lane for a short while, before going back into the woods again and passing the gamekeeper's cottage again. We took the track to the right on the return, passing a remote house before joining a trail through the woods which was very muddy and clearly popular with trail bikers as the track was all churned up and boggy with bike tracks everywhere. Eventually we left the woods and crossed fields, negotiating the electrified fences and re-joined the car near Camp.Robin's suggestion of a pint at the Carpenters Arms in Miserden seemed a good one, so off we went before driving back to Leckhampton.
An OS view of the walk is below, courtesy of QUO digital mapping/OS:
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