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The Six Bells, Beenham (3.5m)
Turn R out of the pub for about 200yds and take the track on the L, bearing L again
again to keep Greyfield Wood on your R. After some 300yds bear L across fields to a junction of five paths. Bear half R towards
the prominent buildings of Doaui Abbey and follow the FP past a new housing development behind the abbey. On reaching the public road,
take the turning opposite for about 300yds to St Peter's Church (Upper Woolhampton) where go through the churchyard to a gate on the other side.
This leads onto a sports field where you keep to the RH side, crossing a metalled drive before shortly coming out on a lane.
Take the rather high stile on the L, and pass a succession of five pinch-stiles through paddocks of the stud at Malthouse Farm.
After the fifth, turn L along the bridlepath downhill for some 400yds until you can cross a bridge, where turn L onto a wider
track. In 200yds turn R through the gate into the Old Copse SSSI, and follow the FP steeply uphill to St Mary's Church. Leaving the churchyard,
turn L then L again at the road junction, and walk about 500yds more through the village back to the pub.
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