Mill
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Mill walks around Stroud and Nailsworth

Download and print our three hand-drawn mill walks, then follow the dotted lines and tick the boxes as you pass each mill. These are linear walks, and you can start at either end.

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Mill walk from Stroud to Stonehouse (2 miles)

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Mill walk from Stroud to Nailsworth (3 miles)

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Our Maps

We have also produced a series of beautiful walking maps that will take you on self-guided explorations of Stroud and Nailsworth. The maps have lots of fascinating historical information and are fully-illustrated.

Stroud Town 1

Step Into The Picture

Invites you to cover the ground depicted in a painting c.1790 of the hamlet of Wallbridge, its mills and the fields behind. It is a beautiful landscape much changed by industrial development but footpaths take you through fields and beside the river in peaceful countryside. The painting, along with others, can be seen in the Museum in the Park, Stroud.

Stroud Town 2

The Upp End of Stroud

This walk uses another Museum painting to evoke the artisan suburb at the top of the town, which developed in the late 1600s. This will be a gentle walk round historic but unpretentious streets.

Stroud Town 3

Royal Stroud

Published in the Jubilee Year there is admittedly not much that can be recorded about royal activities in a country town. However, Frederick Prince of Wales made his mark; Queen Mary visited a factory; Prince Philip had his wedding uniform made here; Queen Victoria passed by and Queen Elizabeth II passed through…. And this is an easy walk from the centre of town to the attractive museum along the newly restored canal – an interesting walk full of History.

Nailsworth Mills 1

Streams of Cloth

A walk round the town and up the Horsley brook. Pin-pointing a succession of mills it provides a background to the growth of the local woollen cloth industry and the town. It is supported by history boards at each of the mill sites.

Nailsworth Mills 2

Weavers' Yarns

This a walk out of the town into the delightful and sunny Shortwood Valley, over the hill and down into the Horsley Valley. It uses mainly well trodden footpaths and passes sites of mills, chapels and quarries that provided stone for Charles Barry’s rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament.

We have also published a series of beautifully printed walking maps that can take you on self-guided explorations of Stroud and Nailsworth, providing interesting routes and historical information.

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