This looks quite a good route on the map, but is let down by the neglect of two sections of field path. There were also similar but lesser issues with the path SW of Wickwar, and I must admit that having battled through those, I would have appreciated a more direct route into Yate too. The path across the fields to Nind Farm is well labelled and obviously trodden. So the road is reached with a strong sense of relief, and from here the route into Wickwar is good, becoming more trodden beyond the first large field. We follow a path around houses then across fields on a well trodden and cut path, but where the path divides our route takes us into a pasture bisected by an electric fence (no obvious crossing point), and once out of that field the next one is protected by a barbed wire fence....

Hugh Hudson

My original plan for this walk didn't survive a delay to my CrossCountry train to Gloucester - I was going to start with a new route from Stonehouse to Dursley and was planning to walk the shorter DURWOT 1 and continue to Yate, but fortunately noticed that it has been deleted and downloaded this one rather than the longer DURWOT 2. Beyond the houses the pavement disappears, but the road is narrow and steep enough to discourage drivers from speeding, and the road walk is mostly pleasant. The lane we follow is narrow and very quiet, and eventually takes us steeply uphill to reach Old London Road. I didn't use the shortcut path at the bottom because there was some digging going on that I didn't want to disturb, but the road route is only a short detour and the Wotton meeting point at the junction is reached by a short walk along the pavements....

Hugh Hudson

- Leaving Tresham, the path in Walcroft Wood can be difficult to find....

Adeline

A generally very enjoyable route, mainly through rolling farmland pastures and arable fields, with an urban fringe nature reserve, some woodland edge and a corner of one of those big South Gloucestershire commons thrown in along the way. The Slow Way leaves Yate on quiet roads and paths via green spaces among housing and a path through a woodland nature reserve, leaving the town via the village of Yate Rocks, where it heads first into the valley, briefly on the Jubilee Way, but soon climbs away to track along a low ridge with extensive views west, and eventually reaches the village of Wickwar, where there is a tea room and a pub at the northern end of the high street. From Wickwar the route heads east down into a stream valley via an equine facility with grazing horses and up again to meet a lane along the western arm of Inglestone Common running along the northern edge of Lower Woods nature reserve. The route initially crosses a brook and heads through a little planted-up paddock where the path is not so obvious....

Mockymock

Decent route overall but marred by an area of confusion around some new housing at the northern edge of Yate, where it is not possible to walk the route as currently plotted. I will share an accessible version....

Mockymock

Once you have escaped the first mile or so of mazy alleyways through the housing estates of Thornbury, this is a good walk on quiet lanes and farmland in the rolling territory between the low-lying Severn Vale and the rise of the Cotswold edge. Some good views along the way and lovely today with angled late autumn sunlight and golden bronze leaves on the many oak trees. It is mostly on-road for the next few miles and the route climbs steadily uphill, but the lanes are quiet and there are some good views around and back over the Severn Vale. At Bibstone, there is a pub, the Royal Oak, with outside tables with a good view. The walk down from Church End into Charfield (nice bench to sit on in the church grounds) is good with a view to the Cotswold edge ahead. The route skirts the edge of the village and crosses the railway before routing through an area of arable land....

Mockymock

A lovely and straightforward route from Wotton to Tetbury....

prhjones

Its a very pleasant and generally easy route taking in the Tyndale Monument and ending with good refreshments either in Wotton or Dursley....

patriciab

its an easy and scenic walk with great views from Tresham....

patriciab