My husband  and our Cavalier King Charles Spaniel (Alfie) and myself thoroughly enjoyed the experience. One of the best rambles we have done for a while.

We found the sign at 42 wasn’t specific about what side of the fence to walk i.e. on the left or right of it. We stayed on the right.

Enjoyed … the variety of landscape, the signage and interpretive material regarding historical sites. The peace and tranquility.

JH

Completed with my 60 yr old mother, we really enjoyed it. Great signage throughout most of the route, only two places were a little confusing – point 6 we didn’t see a sign (maybe we missed it!) and between 36-37 it might be helpful to have an additional arrow to reassure the route is correct when walking up the hill.

Absolutely easy and clear with the map but I think if we had relied solely on the signs we would have missed the turning at 6!

If we did the route again we would probably slightly adjust it to stay off the roads where possible and make it a little more challenging.

Congratulations on organising such a great route, thank you.

H

Point 6 – the sign is on a street light post.
36-37 the route continues along the pavement.

Ed.

We’ve just completed the walks in the Ramblers book, Exploring Historic Dean. These are excellent guided walks and this one is just as good.

The farmer (?) has tied the gates at each end closed instead of using a normal latch. We had to climb over, not everyone can do this.

The path crosses from one side of the fence to the other half way across the field. If this was signed, we missed it. So we had to climb out, not difficult but unnecessary.

RD

This is a public footpath. The farmer is concerned about his sheep escaping onto the road. He ties the gates in a way that can be undone and re-tied.
The older editions of the 1:25,000 OS Map are incorrect at this point (42-43). The footpath now passes through the gate. We have added a waymark sign before the gate and extra instructions to the web page for 42.

Ed.

One gate was chained, with no way over other than to climb. Similarly a number of gates were secured unnecessarily with bailing twine. Okay for us but anyone with any level of disability would have had to go some other way. Probably back the way you came if you’re in a field.

PS

Not aware of any chained gate on route. Baler twine – just undo, pass through gate, close gate then re-tie the twine.

Ed.

Between 42 and 43 there needs to be an arrow where you change sides of the fence, we went wrong there!
This is not intened to criticise just help.

We enjoyed the walk a great deal.

KW

Thanks – we have taken steps to alleviate this problem.

Ed.