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Lower Woods

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Lower Woods is one of 136 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire. It is among the largest in the county. Other SSSIs nearby include Hawkesbury Meadow and Yarley Meadows. The closest station is Yate, about 5.8 km to the south-west.

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Photo of the Cotswolds, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Cotswolds

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Honey-coloured limestone villages scattered across rolling sheep country, and paths enough to link them all up

1.4 km E

Photo along the Monarch's Way, a 625-mile long-distance path running from Worcester to Shoreham-by-Sea, England.Highlight

Monarch's Way

Long-distance path

England's longest inland waymarked trail, tracing Charles II's escape route from defeat at Worcester in 1651 to the ship waiting at Shoreham.

2.4 km E · spans 14 counties

Photo along the Cotswold Way, a 102-mile National Trail running from Bath to Chipping Campden, England.Highlight

Cotswold Way

National Trail

A hundred miles of honeyed limestone, beech hangers and escarpment views to the Severn.

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Photo of Westonbirt Arboretum, a Grade I registered house & garden near Sherston in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, south west England.Highlight

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House & garden near Sherston

National tree collection ablaze in autumn.

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Photo of Owlpen Manor, a Grade II registered house & garden near Nailsworth in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, south west England.Highlight

Owlpen Manor

House & garden near Nailsworth

A grey Tudor manor with a church and clipped yew terraces in the Cotswolds.

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Photo of Uley Long Barrow, a chambered tomb near Nailsworth in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, south west England.Highlight

Uley Long Barrow

Chambered tomb near Nailsworth

Neolithic long barrow on the Cotswold edge near Uley, better known as Hetty Pegler's Tump, with stone burial chambers opening off a low passage.

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