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through Dodington Park and up to Tormarton sitting pretty on the edge
of a motorway hell. Dyrham seems all but forgotten in its leafy dell. Cold
Ashton smiles out to the south and, as you leave it along Greenways Lane,
so a luxurious bowl of countryside draws you on.
It's not far then to Bath. Over the Battlefields, along the escarpment
once more, round a golf course and across an Iron Age hill fort and you
come to Prospect Stile, with the first view of Bath lying in its hollow. Best
of all is the view onto Kelston Round Hill, one of the finest of all hills
seen since leaving Chipping Campden. The onward route leads round its
shoulder and down to Regency Bath, along a maze of elegant streets until
at last you come face to face with that gem of an abbey. That sight alone
is worth walking the Cotswold Way for.
