Ride 12 in the Cotswolds on Horseback series. Print

Hillersley Ozleworth Waypoint 1
Hillesley & Ozleworth, Ride 12 in the Cotswolds on Horseback series. Approx. 16k (10 miles) very scenic but with a lot of gates. Parking: The Fleece Inn by prior arrangement (01453 843189) and please give the pub your custom (Grid Reference ST769897). Turn left out of Fleece car park, follow Chapel Lane to T junction and bear right down Kilcott Valley for 1km.

Hillersley Ozleworth Waypoint 2
Turn left onto Bridleway (BW) and shortly left again, following Cotswold Way through several gates to road at Alderley. Turn right and immediately right onto minor road down to crossroads. Go straight over and follow Cotswold Way over bridge, through gate with stream on left, into narrow field. At opposite boundary, turn right off Cotswold Way and up left hand edge of field to road (Hillmill Lane).

Hillersley Ozleworth Waypoint 3
Turn left, follow road to T junction in Wortley and then turn right towards Wotton-under-Edge. At brow of hill, turn right onto BW (opposite Nind Lane). Follow steep track to end of wood and bear right up across field to gate in right hand corner. Continue to next gate in right hand corner and go straight up to top of hill. Follow wall on right to a gate and onto track to the road.

Hillersley Ozleworth Waypoint 4
Turn right and after 300m, turn right again into Park Lane. Continue past Fernley Farm to a junction, bearing right by telephone box.

Hillersley Ozleworth Waypoint 5
At main entrance to Ozleworth Park, take BW gate to left and follow track to estate road. Turn left and follow BW signs (between lake and hedged garden) past cattle grid and fork right at BW junction across pastureland, following the edge of the wood to a gate. Continue through wood to tarmac estate road. Turn left and follow to electronic gates out of Ozleworth Park (press button on right to open gates).

Hillersley Ozleworth Waypoint 6
Turn left and follow to end of road by stream and two cottages on left. Turn right, up driveway to salmon pink Georgian house (Holwell Farm). Go through the two gates in front of house and straight on, following the track through the woods and three more sets of gates. At T junction with footpath, turn left to farmyard and follow to road in Tresham.

Hillersley Ozleworth Waypoint 7
Turn left and after 200m sharply down to right onto BW track to field gate. Follow right hand field boundary to next gate, continue through the fields on the track to the road. Turn right to return to The Fleece Inn at Hillesley.