On leaving the Painswick area, you will approach Edge, a village located about 1 mile from Painswick.
Edge is a small village, and is noted for its wild flowers at Scotsquar Common. Beatrix Potter use to visit friends just north of the village, whilst staying here she was inspired to write the story 'The Tailor of Gloucester'.
Five miles from here, following the route as marked, you'll approach Randwick. This village is about a mile and a half north west of Stroud. The village is sited on steep hillsides below Standish Wood. Every year Randwick holds a festival known as Randwick Wap. Ranwick is only one of two villages which still participates in the ancient custom of cheese rolling. The cheeses, usually three double Gloucesters, are rolled anticlockwise around the local Church after being blessed. The rolling of the cheeses is meant to ward off evil spirits. After rolling, one of the cheeses is cut up and shared amongst bystanders. Myth has it that eating the cheese protects the consumers
fertility and ensures future generations of "Runickers" - the local name for villagers. The remaining two cheeses are kept until the following Saturday when they are rolled down the steep slopes of the Well Leaze three times as part of the ancient Wap celebration.
Leaving Randwick, you'll pass through Kings Stanley, and in to Nympsfield where you will find Nympsfield Long Barrow, built five thousand years ago by a Neolithic farming family.
Entering Uley four miles after Nympsfield, you are now sixty six miles from the start of the guided Cotswold Way walk in Chipping Camden. Uley is situated in a deep valley and is home to many large 18th Century houses, which provide evidence of Uley's success as a cloth centre in the years prior to the Industrial Revolution.
Leaving Uley, passing through Dursley, you will reach a village called North Nibley. The small village of North Nibley claims to be the birth place of William Tyndale, the priest who first translated the New Testament into English. He was burned at the stake in 1536 for opening the bible to ordinary people and undermining the authority of the Church. Leaving North Nibley you will pass trough Wotton-Under-Edge, an attractive little market town, showing the usual signs of prosperity from its success as a cloth centre during the 17th and 18th Century. Passing through Alderley, around four miles from Wotton-Under-Edge, you will reach Hawkesbury and Hawkesbury Upton. Hawkesbury is quite bleak, but you should take time to admire the Somerset monument erected in honor of Lord Robert Somerset.
