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From Drakestone Point on Stinchcombe Hill the view includesthe Brecon Beacons and
Malvern Hills
SHORTCUT
The Cotswold Way makes a lengthy circuitous tour of the plateau, but should you need
to get to Dursley in a hurry, or the weather is poor and visibility such that you won't
have the views, it's possible to make a shortcut across Stinchcombe Hill, as follows.
On coming to the edge of the golf course, simply walk straight ahead along the right-
hand side of a fairway - marker posts guide the way - and very soon you'll come to
a narrow road which crosses the golf course. Turn right, then almost immediately go
left to reach the clubhouse on whose right-hand side you rejoin the main route.
A large oak signpost directs the route left to make a devious 2 mile
(3km) clockwise tour of Stinchcombe Hill. Numerous marker posts lead the
way alongside the golf course fairway and in and out of brief woodland sec-
tions. At various promontories you gain long views south to Nibley Knoll,
west to the Severn and northwest across the Vale of Berkeley. North of
Drakestone Point you come to the stone-built Tubbs Shelter, then contin-
ue round the wooded fringe of Stinchcombe Hill.
After an open section, the path steers left into woodland, then right near
a wooden barn, eventually returning to the edge of the fairway. Marker
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