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Dist:0.2km<br/>Approaching it from Stroud, the huge "Bear of Rodborough" is an unexpected sight after crossing the wild and exposed common, the other houses of Bagpath village being mostly hidden behind walls or trees.
©Vieve Forward
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©Angus Townley
Dist:0.6km<br/>The old course, on Minchinhampton Common, http://www.mincholdcourse.co.uk/
©Mike Faherty
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©Steve Daniels
Dist:0.6km<br/>To the south of Stroud, Rodborough and Minchinhampton Commons are large open areas inhabited by herds of cows with little road sense. Speed limits on the wide, straight roads across the common are set at 40 mph for this reason, but stories of cars hitting cows are still all too frequent.
©David Gruar
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©Steve Daniels
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©Steve Daniels
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©Steve Daniels
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©Steve Daniels
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©Steve Daniels
Dist:0.7km<br/>Looking down the GWR Gloucester - Swindon line towards Stroud from the foot crossing at Ham Mill. Behind the photographer is the site of Ham Mill Halt, one of several halts on this line once served by the "Chalford Flyer" local train service to Gloucester. Most of the halts and stations apart from Stroud and Stonehouse were closed in 1964 when the stopping service was withdrawn despite strong local opposition.
©David Stowell
Dist:0.8km<br/>View northward, towards Gloucester; ex-Great Western main line, Swindon - Gloucester etc. The Halt lasted as long as the local service from Gloucester to Chalford, that is until 2/11/64. See also [[1972982]].
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.8km<br/>Road on very steep slope at the bottom of Rodborough Common
©Angus Townley
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©norman hyett
Dist:0.8km<br/>Restoration of this length of the Thames & Severn Canal was the first to be tackled by the then Stroudwater Canal Society, the forerunner of today's Cotswold Canal Trust, when they were formed in the 1970s. In the 1980s a large chunk of this bridge collapsed into the canal. A few years earlier this would have resulted in its demolition and culverting. Such was the success of the canal society's efforts that Gloucestershire County Council (who own the canal) carried out full repairs to bring it back to its original state. Ham Mill lock can be seen just beyond the bridge.
©David Stowell

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