Travel Reference
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can from here it's back to woodland for a downhill stretch into an industrial
valley overlooked by Stroud.
The path below Haresfield Beacon (Section 7)
From cloth mills on the River Frome to woodlands hanging from the
steep scarp slope takes only an hour or so. Peace and serenity are restored
as you regain the escarpment, where huge views look out to a pair of outli-
ers which soon have to be crossed. Near Hetty Pegler's Tump the Cotswold
Way plunges down the scarp, then climbs up and over Cam Long Down
before swooping down once more - this time into Dursley.
Dursley leads to Stinchcombe Hill, and from there to North Nibley, Nibley
Knoll and Wotton-under-Edge. (What names there are to conjure with in
the Cotswolds!) Wotton has its millstreams, and the stage beyond Wotton
explores a narrow valley lit by a lively little stream that once powered sev-
eral mills, one of which is passed on the way to Hawkesbury Upton.
Out of Hawkesbury you follow the old trading route of Bath Lane.
Tiny Horton is next, closely followed by Little Sodbury and Old Sodbury,
