Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
The way takes you along the rocky western edge of the escarpment on
Cleeve Cloud, with the steep crags of Castle Rock making a fine show.
Views are over Cheltenham, and as you approach an Iron Age hill fort, so
you can see the farm buildings of Nutterswood below. After passing the
rough undulations of the hill fort earthworks a track comes up from the
valley to your right, but you continue ahead and follow a fence and a wall
until it brings you to a large Cleeve Common noticeboard with a gate be-
side it. Go through the gate and follow a track between hawthorn clumps.
(Note the transmitter masts once more, half-left ahead.)
When you leave the hawthorns the route bears right a little to join an-
other path heading to the left among yet more hawthorn bushes, and
dropping downhill, steeply in places. Go through a gateway, and after a
few paces take a narrow path left alongside a nature-reserve boundary
fence. The path divides. Take the right branch curving along the lower
edge of a beech wood. When the wood ends go through a gate into the Bill
