King's Stanley to Ebley Mill - Miles without Stiles

With the pavilion and ballgames court on your left, walk along the edge of the playing field towards the left-hand floodlight pole. To the right of the pole a waymark post leads you down 20 steep wooden steps to cross a footbridge.

Turn left to head down the steps, over the footbridge and uphill. Before emerging onto the road go through a gate on your left (signed Cafe & Shops) and join the Cotswold Way. Follow the path to a gate leading into a grassy field, with a good view of Stanley Mill chimney ahead. Walk down to a gate onto the road by Old Brook House 1.

(Alternatively, from the war memorial opposite the King’s Head take Church Street and Brockley Road (traffic) down to Old Brook House 1.

Cross the road, turn right and continue along the road, past Stanley Mill, to the pedestrian controlled traffic lights across the busy A419 road at Ryeford 2.

Cross the road and turn left up a ramp into Ryeford Road and walk uphill to the canal bridge 3.

Turn right down the slope onto the towpath. Follow the towpath past the swingbridge and double locks to Oil Mills Bridge 4.

Continue to the next brick bridge 5, leaving the towpath to follow the road right to inspect Ebley Mill. Return to the towpath and back towards Oil Mills Bridge 4.

Turn left from the towpath at a Cotswold Way signpost between houses and follow the path to a footbridge 6 by a sluice and pass through a gate.

Turn right to follow “Lane’s Siding” footpath by the River Frome and across the water meadow to a gate onto the cycle track, an old railway line. 7 (If the meadow is waterlogged you can keep you feet dry by returning to the canal, turning left onto the towpath and going back the way you came).

This is now a tarmac cycle track beside the A419.

Turn right and follow the cycle track through the Community Orchard to the second set of traffic lights at Ryford 2.

Turn left across the A419 and return towards King’s Stanley. After the mill, cross the road 1 to retrace your steps via the Cotswold Way.

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