From the Bear Inn at Bisley, walk past the post office and turn right. Take the first turn left to a crossroads with the main road. Go towards Waterlane and Sapperton.

Walk past Rectory Farm and turn through a gate on the right and follow a track at the field-edge. You will emerge beside a road junction, cross to a stile opposite and walk to the stile in the far corner of a paddock.

Cross the next few fields and follow a path behind the houses, turning left between the gardens to emerge onto a lane in Bournes Green.

Follow the lane through the hamlet. The lane later bends sharp left. Climb over the stile on the right and strike diagonally across the fields leaving via a lane at the edge of Oakridge Lynch.

Walk right as far as a crossroads, then turn left, signed to Frampton Mansell. Just after the green with the old water pump (that serves as a war memorial) take the second of two lanes left. Stay with the main lane, forking right and joining a wider lane to Daneway and Cirencester.

Approaching Far Oakridge, turn left onto a track which leads to Waterlane. At the junction follow the lane signed to Bisley and Stroud. Continue down the lane to a farm where it eventually splits; bear left to a gate facing you at the bottom.

Climb straight up the bank in front, continuing forward across a field to a wood, drop through the wood and across the field beyond passing a couple of ponds. Cross over a stream and skirt the field-edge below trees. Climb to a stile in the top corner to reach Hey Hedge Lane.

Follow this lane back into Bisley.

The Bear Inn is a former courthouse built in the 16th Century. It opened as a village inn around 1760’s and now offers fresh food daily and welcomes families.

Look out for the annual Bisley Well Dressing which takes place in May.