Walking with Artists

Where we walk/1

Over the Edge
This part of the Cotswold Hills presents intimate valleys and broad vistas over the Severn Vale to the Black Mountains and Wales. Local flora includes bee orchids and other meadow flowers, and we often get a glimpse of Spotted Woodpecker, deer and a variety of other wildlife. The walk is full of variety, with plenty of climbs and decents through a variety of terrain.
We start our walk from Edge, near the Cotswold Way and walk over the unique limestone grassland of Scotsquar Common. This leads us to little used footpaths that snake through beechwoods and over fields outlined by dry stone walls and all the while offering exciting visual treats to draw, photograph or just to gaze.
After a welcome break for lunch at a local pub, we continue walking through the beautiful but little known paths of Painswick Valley, returning to Edge in the late afternoon.

Terrain
Mostly on footpaths, through woodland and fields. Undulating with some steep accents and descents

Distance approx 8km