Wotton-under-Edge & Tyndale Monument

Tyndale Monument

Leave the car park in a westerly direction, walking away from the town for 400 metres. Just past London Road, take the steep path up the bank on the right (with a handrail). After 50 metres the path turns sharp right, continue over stile. After 200 metres go through gate and cross a small road.

Follow the path up the steep face of the hill (signposted "Cotswold Way"). You can catch your breath on a seat at the top next to Jubilee Clump facing a glorious view to the Severn Bridges, the Hawkesbury Monument, across Wotton, beyond Bristol to the Mendips.

Continue north-west (behind Jubilee Clump enclosure) through a gate, keeping the field on your right and the woods on your left.

Cross a lane into the Westridge Wood and follow the sunken trackway straight ahead through the trees. (NB the National Trust area of Westridge Wood is through the gate on the left but our path goes straight ahead.) As paths criss-cross through these woods choose the one that is nearest to straight ahead.

The path passes Brackenbury Ditches and you begin to glimpse views opening out through the trees. Continue through a gate (signed "Cotswold Way") into open grassland and walk towards the Tyndale Monument, where you can take a well-earned rest and survey the view across the Severn valley to Wales.

Return on the same path at first, but veer right after passing through the gate. The alternative path skirts the edge of the hill giving a constant view to the right, then loops back to rejoin the original route.

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