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Lovely countryside near Brockworth.
©Alby
Dist:0.3km<br/>The lower grassy slopes leading up to the wooded crest of the hill overlooking the Roman villa site.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is another view down the slope that is now world-renowned for its annual cheese-rolling event. It is hard to capture how steep this slope is, but many people would find it hard to walk down, let alone run! The view takes in Brockworth with the new Gloucester Business park on the left and Churchdown Hill behind it.
©Mike Baldwin
Dist:0.5km<br/>The Witcombe reservoirs and Crickley Hill are two features in view.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.5km<br/>This water supply must have been a key factor in the siting of the villa where it is at Great Witcombe. The concrete pipe is not Roman!
©Jonathan Billinger
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©Philip Halling
Dist:0.5km<br/>Every May Bank Holiday the annual cheese rolling takes place down this extremely steep hillside. The picture does not really do justice to the steepness of the gradient. For more information about this traditional event follow the link. http://www.cheese-rolling.co.uk/
©Philip Halling
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©Alby
Dist:0.5km<br/>Details of the villa at Great Witcombe.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.5km<br/>Great Witcombe Roman Villa is in the stewardship of English Heritage and is open at all reasonable times. The villa formed the centrepiece of a great country estate, built in the 3rd century and abandoned in the 5th century.
©Jonathan Billinger
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©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.6km<br/>This is the view looking out from Brockworth Woods towards Witcombe Reservoir from gates just south of the Roman Villa and just north of the Cotswold Way.
©Mike Baldwin
Dist:0.6km<br/>This photograph was taken from the footpath that leads up Coopers Hill from fields east of Droyt Court Farm. The distant building include the hotel just north of Brockworth Cross Hands (where the A46 intersects with Ermine Way).
©Mike Baldwin
Dist:0.7km<br/>Looking from the shaded Cotswold Way northwards over the Severn Vale. On the right are the Witcombe Reservoirs, in the middle distance on the left is Churchdown Hill and beyond that, in the far distance, are the Malvern Hills.
©Sharon Loxton
Dist:0.7km<br/>Coopers Hill looms up in the background.
©Jonathan Billinger

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