Coordinates: 51°44′35″N 2°12′58″W / 51.743°N 2.216°W / 51.743; -2.216 The Five Valleys are a group of valleys in Gloucestershire, England, which converge on the town of Stroud at the western edge of the Cotswolds. The valleys are as follows:
- The Chalford valley (also known as the "Golden Valley")
- The Nailsworth Valley
- The Ruscombe Valley
- The Slad Valley (of Cider with Rosie fame)
- The Painswick Valley
The Five Valleys Walk is a popular circular walk of some 21 miles around Stroud. It has been held annually since 1987, in aid of the Stroud-based Meningitis Trust, usually on the last Sunday in September. A more exacting version of this walk has also been published, as the "Five Valleys Circuit" (see Barry Hill, Walking the South Gloucestershire Cotswolds, pp. 100–116); this includes an ascent over the high ground of Selsley Common rather than the charity walk's low-level route from Stonehouse to Nailsworth, up the old railway line by the Nailsworth Stream.
Famous quotes containing the word valleys:
“But oh, not the hills of Habersham,
And oh, not the valleys of Hall
Avail: I am fain for to water the plain.
Downward, the voices of Duty call—
Downward, to toil and be mixed with the main,
The dry fields burn, and the mills are to turn,
And a myriad flowers mortally yearn,
And the lordly main from beyond the plain
Calls o’er the hills of Habersham,
Calls through the valleys of Hall.”
—Sidney Lanier (1842–1881)