6: Eight Woods Walk
A circular walking route of about 4.6 miles (1hr 49). Views; 6 kissing gates; hills (225 ft of climb); possibility of mud; 1 narrow ford.
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Start next to Aldi in the St Mary’s Shopping Centre – close to buses and parking.
Cross Rock Street towards the Rock Street car park and turn right. Cross Bath Road and Lower Bath Road and turn left down Streamleaze. Take the first right to a tunnel under Midland Road.
Go straight ahead up the cycle/foot path past Tesco car park and between Thornbury Farm Wood and the Industrial Estate.
At the T-junction, turn left up Vilner Lane. Keep straight on past the turning into the Industrial Estate and go straight ahead when the main path turns to the right.Follow the path up through the woods and out into a grassy space.
Continue straight ahead until you can turn left through a kissing gate. Head down the field and around to the right at the bottom to find a kissing gate into an enclosed path.At the bottom, turn right along a path to cross Midland Way using a traffic island. Turn right and then left into an enclosed path or ginnel. At the junction, turn left up to the railway path and then right over the bridge.
At the end, cross the Link and turn left to Avon Way. Cross this road and turn right. Continue until the road bends to the left and cross the road to find a gap through to Midland Way.
Turn left and then right to a kissing gate into a field. Follow the path diagonally right towards a stile and then turn left up the side of the field to a kissing gate onto Grovesend Road.
Cross the road and turn right and head up the path to find a gate to the left alongside a wall.
Through the gate, head across the gravel to a kissing gate into a field. Follow the right hand fence to another kissing gate.
In the next field, look for a gap in the hedge to the right. Through the gap head down the hill to find a path to the right around the edge of Cleve Wood.
Follow the path uphill and around the top of
the wood, which ends up as an engineered path through the wood.
At the end turn left down the hill to a shallow ford. On the other side head uphill to a yellow path through the next field. At a junction, turn right on the main yellow (not brick) road.
This will take you into the next field. Go past the farm on your right and three turnings on the left. This will bring you out into a third field.
Look for a footbridge leading into Crossways Wood (aka Hackett Wood) on your left.
Follow the main path through the wood, which should lead you to a footbridge over a stream. Continue out of the wood onto Morton Way.
Cross the road and turn left and then right past a pillar box. Follow the path between the houses until you come to a footbridge over the stream.
Turn left and follow the path until it bends around to the right away from the stream to join Malvern Drive.
Turn left down to Grovesend Road, cross over and turn right and second left on a cut through to Streamleaze Open Space.
When you come to a newish plantation, turn right and follow the path around the right hand edge of the green open space.
You will pass four or five inviting cutthroughs on the right before you are more or less forced to turn right past the last row of houses.
At a junction, turn left to the underpass beneath Streamleaze road. Continue across one path and follow the path through a cutthrough to the left. At the first junction turn right then left at the next. This takes you around the edge of the estate until you are able to turn right into a cutthrough that is nearly a ginnel as it has a wall on the left and a school fence on the right.
At the end of this path, continue up Bath Road, past the car park to Rock Street.
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this leaflet is accurate and up to date at the time of publication. However, paths, access, and conditions may change over time due to weather, maintenance, or other factors beyond the control of the author or publisher. Walkers follow this route entirely at their own risk. Walkers are advised to take appropriate care, use suitable clothing and equipment, and check current conditions before setting out.
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