Cranham to Paradise - Walks with Stiles

From the rear of the parking area take the wide path into wood to R of barrier and follow public footpath signs. Climbing gently, cross a road and carry on up to the Cotswold Way 1.

Turn L on the Cotswold Way downhill to reach a road. Turn R to the A46. Cross with care, turn L on the pavement. Where it ends turn R into the trees alongside a wall, then 2nd left, following Cotswold Way, to cross a minor road. Take the L-hand track through the woods to soon join a lane (the Royal William pub is on the L) 2.

Walk up the lane which becomes a wide track, going under a barrier, still following Cotswold Way. Where the Cotswold Way veers off L on a narrow path, stay on the track which rises alongside the golf course. After five minutes you climb past the 7th tee 3 to see Painswick Beacon ahead. Head across the grass to the R of the pillar and take the short ridge path to the topograph and the views. Carry on along the ridge, down stone steps
to a path heading towards a quarry beyond a road. Turn L along the road. When it turns L take the path ahead (Wysis Way) down through trees to the A46 4.

Cross and turn L past a house on R, and turn R down steep steps. (To avoid the steps, walk on and turn R down the lane). Take the path opposite to a stile and turn R into the next field. Turn L down through a gate and down to a stream. Cross and bear half R to a gate and enter a wood. After 40 metres turn R over a stile and leave the wood through a gate. There is a bench by the gate to sit and admire the view. Follow the path straight ahead downhill to cross a footbridge and gate. 5 Turn half left and follow a permissive path through a gate to a stile in the opposite hedge straight ahead.

Bear L and head for a thatched garden shelter. Cross the stile and head for a gate by a lane. Turn R down the lane past a cottage on L. Look for two stiles on L entering a field. 6 Take the R-hand stile and follow the path towards Tocknells Court. Cross the Painswick Stream and follow it upstream to a stile onto a lane. Turn left on the lane and on the corner where the lane turns L, 7 take the path on R through a kissing gate. After a house (once a mill) a footbridge leads up to the mill pond.

Follow the path, crossing the stream again and climb up the field. When a house appears, bear R down to cross your last footbridge. Climb to a gate go ahead through a gate with a hedge on your L. On reaching the house (Manns Court) follow the diverted path to the R, around the garden, then climb up to a high stone stile on to a lane. Take 15 paces up the lane and turn R between two pillars onto a gravel drive. It leads to a house and a waymark post where you turn L steeply uphill and climb along the fenced edge of the wood to Cranham Common. Take the lane ahead past houses on your L to the top and the open common 8. After your lane crosses another, you soon fork L onto a grassy path, then a track, to the Black Horse Inn. Turn L down to a road, turn L again past a Scout centre and after 100m uphill your walk is done.

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