Travel Reference
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The Cotswold Way between Greenway Lance and Lansdown Hill
Beyond the monument walk across the meadow to exit onto a road at
a parking area where there are two more Battle of Lansdown information
panels. Cross halfright to a screen of trees through which you join a nar-
row service road and turn right.
When the road curves left, go through a gate on the right and follow
a grass path parallel with the road heading towards a tall aerial mast.
Through another gate by the entrance to the Avon Fire Brigade complex,
walk along a narrow lane to the right of the perimeter fence. The continu-
ing footpath breaks half-left ahead, and beyond the fence goes through a
gate where you walk along the top edge of a sloping meadow. Once more
the way has returned to the scarp edge to regain broad views of sweeping
hills and lowlands picked out with farms and villages.
At the western end of the promontory of Hanging Hill there's another
Battle of Lansdown explanatory panel. Here you go through a kissing gate,
pass a trig point and walk along the scarp edge heading south-east. Views
once again are magnificent.
The path leads to a golf course where you hug the right-hand wall, and
in a few paces drop to a stony drive and bear left. Follow the track as it
curves to the right with a woodland on your left. When you come to the
end of the wood, head to the right on another track to pass a low build-
ing and arrive at a crossing track. Bear left, then right, to walk along the
right-hand edge of the continuing golf course alongside Pipley Wood.
Leave the golf course by way of a metal gate and go straight ahead
on the continuing track, sloping gently down towards that graceful pan-
orama. After about 120 metres leave the track to rise half-left towards a
field gate. Go through the kissing gate beside it into what is at first a fairly
narrow meadow, but which begins to open out with yet more big views
