production

New Fancy View

New Fancy View, Gloucestershire, England

11.66KM

/

7.2MILES

A wander through the Forest of Dean starting at New Fancy View Point and returning via Speech House Lake. The lake was quite flooded on the day we visited, in October 2021, and we had to retrace our steps in order to find a place to cross one of the many streams.

30 Oct 2021
Flat
3hrs, 35min (2hrs, 52min)
altitude Graph for new fancy view walk

Elevation: Max 169m, Min 109m, Gain 60m

Pictures from the walk

forest view with one felled tree

New Fancy View

moss and shadow on tree

Late autumn sunlight

ferns and tree

October ferns

fungi and grass

Forest fungi

trees and standing water

The Forest of Dean

pathway through forest

Path through the forest

forest cycle and walking path

Spruce Ride

sunlight tree surrounded by dark forest

Speech House Lake - glimpsed through the trees

all the walks

Some walks nearby

red ball sculpture hanging in forest
Highmeadow, Forest of Dean

We didn't take that many pictures on this 17km circular from Symonds Yat Rock through Staunton and Highmedow Woods, but we did capture the Staunton Suck Stone and Near Hearkening Rock both …

green narrowboat on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal
Slimbridge

This walk takes in the villages of Slimbridge and Frampton-on-Severn plus a decent stretch along the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal - a ship canal built in 1827.

River bank with reads and trees. Dead tree in foreground.
Berkeley

An easy Gloucestershire circular starting the village of Stone and heading up to Berkeley following the route of the Little Avon River. The walk returns via Whitcliff Deer Park. The town of …