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Technical sheet
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Activity: Walking
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Distance: 13.42 km
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Average duration: 4h 05
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Difficulty: Not specified
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Return to departure point: Yes
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Vertical gain: + 88 m
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Vertical drop: - 85 m
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Highest point: 85 m
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Lowest point: 8 m
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Country: United Kingdom
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District: Stoke Gifford
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Start/End: N 51.527432° / W 2.557551°
Waypoints
- S/E : km 0 - alt. 57 m - Start on
- 2 : km 0.02 - alt. 57 m - Turn left onto Little Stoke Lane
- 3 : km 0.03 - alt. 57 m - Turn left
- 4 : km 0.69 - alt. 60 m - Turn right
- 5 : km 1.16 - alt. 63 m - Turn slight right onto Redfield Road
- 6 : km 1.28 - alt. 65 m - Turn left onto Gloucester Road, A38
- 7 : km 1.76 - alt. 61 m - Keep left
- 8 : km 1.92 - alt. 61 m - Turn left onto Gloucester Road, A38
- 9 : km 1.95 - alt. 62 m - Turn left
- 10 : km 1.95 - alt. 62 m - Turn right
- 11 : km 2.06 - alt. 64 m - Turn right
- 12 : km 2.06 - alt. 64 m - Turn left onto Hayes Way
- 13 : km 2.1 - alt. 63 m - Turn right onto Hayes Way
- 14 : km 2.19 - alt. 62 m - At roundabout, take exit 1
- 15 : km 2.21 - alt. 62 m - Turn right
- 16 : km 2.54 - alt. 63 m - Turn right
- 17 : km 2.86 - alt. 65 m - Keep right
- 18 : km 2.88 - alt. 65 m - At roundabout, take exit 3 onto Hayes Way
- 19 : km 3.28 - alt. 71 m - Turn right
- 20 : km 3.3 - alt. 71 m - Turn left onto Hayes Way
- 21 : km 3.37 - alt. 70 m - At roundabout, take exit 3 onto Hayes Way
- 22 : km 3.58 - alt. 71 m - Keep left
- 23 : km 3.62 - alt. 71 m - Turn right
- 24 : km 3.92 - alt. 69 m - Turn left onto Charlton Walk
- 25 : km 4 - alt. 69 m - Turn right
- 26 : km 5.15 - alt. 43 m - Turn right onto Catbrain Hill
- 27 : km 5.47 - alt. 57 m - Turn slight left
- 28 : km 5.5 - alt. 57 m - Turn right
- 29 : km 5.56 - alt. 58 m - Turn left onto Lysander Road
- 30 : km 5.66 - alt. 60 m - Turn sharp right
- 31 : km 5.68 - alt. 60 m - Turn left
- 32 : km 5.73 - alt. 61 m - Turn left
- 33 : km 5.76 - alt. 61 m - Turn left onto A4018
- 34 : km 5.77 - alt. 61 m - Turn right
- 35 : km 5.83 - alt. 62 m - Turn left
- 36 : km 5.91 - alt. 62 m - Turn left
- 37 : km 6.03 - alt. 62 m - Turn left onto Hollywood Lane
- 38 : km 6.96 - alt. 13 m - Turn left
- 39 : km 6.98 - alt. 13 m - Turn right
- 40 : km 7 - alt. 13 m - Turn left
- 41 : km 7.02 - alt. 13 m - Turn left onto Hollywood Lane
- 42 : km 7.05 - alt. 11 m - Keep right onto Hollywood Lane
- 43 : km 7.07 - alt. 11 m - Turn right onto Bowstreet Lane
- 44 : km 7.73 - alt. 15 m - Turn left onto Blackhorse Hill, B4055
- 45 : km 7.88 - alt. 11 m - Turn right onto Home Farm Way
- 46 : km 8 - alt. 11 m - Turn right
- 47 : km 8.03 - alt. 10 m - Keep right
- 48 : km 9.28 - alt. 23 m - Keep left
- 49 : km 9.34 - alt. 23 m - Turn sharp left
- 50 : km 9.73 - alt. 45 m - Turn slight right
- 51 : km 9.98 - alt. 49 m - Turn right
- 52 : km 9.99 - alt. 49 m - Turn left onto Over Lane
- 53 : km 10.09 - alt. 50 m - Turn left
- 54 : km 10.5 - alt. 85 m - Turn right
- 55 : km 10.55 - alt. 85 m - Turn sharp right
- 56 : km 10.6 - alt. 85 m - Turn right onto Park Leaze
- 57 : km 10.63 - alt. 84 m - Turn sharp left
- 58 : km 10.71 - alt. 84 m - Turn left
- 59 : km 10.72 - alt. 84 m - Turn right
- 60 : km 10.77 - alt. 84 m - Turn left
- 61 : km 10.93 - alt. 81 m - Turn left onto Epney Close
- 62 : km 10.93 - alt. 81 m - Turn right onto Epney Close
- 63 : km 11 - alt. 80 m - Turn right onto Elmore Road
- 64 : km 11.03 - alt. 79 m - Turn left
- 65 : km 11.09 - alt. 78 m - Turn slight left onto Coniston Road
- 66 : km 11.28 - alt. 73 m - Turn slight left onto Coniston Road
- 67 : km 12.03 - alt. 64 m - Enter roundabout
- 68 : km 12.24 - alt. 60 m - Keep right
- 69 : km 12.31 - alt. 62 m - Turn slight right
- 70 : km 12.42 - alt. 62 m - Keep right
- 71 : km 12.48 - alt. 63 m - Turn right onto Amberley Road
- 72 : km 12.5 - alt. 62 m - Turn left onto Bibury Avenue
- 73 : km 12.8 - alt. 60 m - Turn right onto Burford Avenue
- 74 : km 12.93 - alt. 61 m - Turn right onto Tetbury Close
- 75 : km 13.09 - alt. 62 m - Turn left onto Clay Lane
- 76 : km 13.1 - alt. 62 m - Turn right
- 77 : km 13.1 - alt. 62 m - Turn left
- S/E : km 13.42 - alt. 58 m
Other walks in the area
Stoke Park
Hilly, with extensive views over and beyond the park landscape, mainly on open land.
Barn Wood
Contoured walk with a focus on 18th century historic features in semi-ancient woodland.
Canford Park, Blaise and Henbury Golf Course loop
Lovely walk in north Bristol slightly off the most obvious paths in Blaise Estate.
Rhododendron
Passing by Goram’s Chair, Tarn Lake, Beech Cathedral, Lily Pond, Rhododendron Walk, Rustic Lodge, Woodman’s Cottage.
Royals and St Mary’s Church
The Church of St Mary the Virgin dates back to 1093, with various rebuilding over the years until an extensive refurbishment in 1878. Look out for two notable graves; an obelisk memorial to the Egyptologist Amelia Edwards and coloured head and foot stones of ‘Scipio Africanus’, a negro slave.
Gorge
The gorge is at its deepest below Lover’s Leap. You can see massive cliffs of steeply tilted white Carboniferous Limestone. It is difficult to see exactly how the Gorge was formed. It would have been directly influenced by the most recent Ice Age up to 100,000 years ago.
Castle
Built in 1795 for John Scandret Harford by William Paty. A solid, simple design placed on a rise so as to appear bigger. Harford was responsible for commissioning landscape architect Humphrey Repton and thereafter, architect John Nash who designed the Orangery, Dairy and nearby Blaise Hamlet. More ornate additions representing a Greek classical influence were made to both the exterior and interior of the house from 1832-3 by C R Cockerell on instruction from J S Harford Jnr.
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