Wickridge Hill and Wick Street

Stroud, Gloucestershire All photos by Hetty

15th September 2022

A walk along Wick Street, down Pincot Lane and back across the fields to Hammonds Farm

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26th April 2021

In Grange Fields on our way to Hawkwood, we saw seven fox cubs watching us (only four in this photo)

31st December 2020

A walk up Wick Street, around Hawkwood then return down Folly Lane

View to Whiteshill

Hawkwood College

Callowell and Whiteshill Church

Callowell House

The farm at Hawkwood

In Folly Lane – birds in the tree

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8th April 2020 5.6 miles Map of walk

This a repeat of a walk we did six years ago, but in the opposite direction and in better weather.

We walked up Folly Lane nearly to Bull’s Cross and returned along Wick Street.

Folly Lane is an ancient route to Bull’s Cross and Painswick and once had a folly, which belonged the The Grove (now Hawkwood)

Then down through the woods to Yokehouse Lane.

This building is by Greencourt House.

On the opposite side of the lane is Red Stables. It is a listed building whose entry says “Sometimes known as the ‘hate wall’, the folly is reputed to have been built to block out light from Greenhouse Court which lies on the opposite side of the road”.