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The village pond, Hawkesbury Upton
The route turns along the track for about 200 metres, then you branch
left on an enclosed track-cum-path. Maintain direction along the left-hand
edge of several meadows linked by stiles or gates, then along a gently
rising farm track into
Alderley
, where you arrive near the village church.
Turn right along the road to a junction, where you go straight across into
a narrow lane. After a few paces the lane curves right and a path contin-
ues ahead to become a track. At the foot of the slope, cross the stream
coming from Ozleworth Bottom and go through a gate into a small field.
Across this go through another gateway into a larger field where the route
aims diagonally across to the top right-hand corner, which brings you to a
lane on the outskirts of
Wortley
.
Cross the lane and continue along the farm track opposite. On the edge
of a woodland bear right and walk up a sunken track (a magical section
of ivy-clung banks and lush fronds of hart's tongue fern) leading onto the
escarpment. Once out of the trees continue ahead and keep along the left-
hand boundary of fields. Look for the waymark which sends you off to the
left through a final strip of woodland, then out onto a terrace of meadow-
land on the very scarp edge. The path is faint in this grassland, but views
are very fine.
ALDERLEY AND WORTLEY
Alderley and Wortley are small neighbouring villages astride a minor road that leads
from Hawkesbury Upton to Wotton-under-Edge. 'The clearing in the alders', Alderley
is a charming hamlet set on a spur of land between the Ozleworth and Kilcott valleys,
