Toadsmoor 8 (Start Anywhere)

Toadsmoor 8 is a trail of about 8 miles following roads and paths around the Todsmoor Valley and the villages of Eastcombe and Bussage, near Stroud. In keeping with all of our Trail courses, the 8 mile trail is marked on the map, but as long as you visit all the controls in the correct order, you can take whataver legal route you choose between them. Note that as a Start Anywhere course, so with MaprunF v 4.8.8 ot later, you don't have to start at the designated start....you can start at any control, but must then visit the controls in order, taking in the designated start/finish en route as just another control, and finishing where you started. The objective is to get round the course as fast as possible, not slavishly to follow the red line on the map!

It involves quite a lot of ups and downs, but by judicious selection of paths and roads you can avoid some of the climb, and significantly reduce the distance run. For more information on the Maptrail format visit the Other Formats page.

Please pay careful heed to where you are and are not allowed to go on this course. In particular, olive green land is private, and not to be entered. Otherwise, if there is no purple cross-hatching, you may cross land, though in general there is little to be gained by doing so on this course.

Please note also that the PDF version of the map is a fairly large file, and may take a little while to download. We have not compressed it in order tp reserve as much details as possible.

Parking is around the village green outside Eastcombe shop and post office, and next to the Lamb Inn, GL6 7DN

Start and Finish are by the entrance to the Lamb Car park, or at any other control if running with maprunF v 4.8.8. In this event you follow the control sequence as before, but the designated Start/Finish becomes just another control, and you finish at the control from which you started.