Wotton-Under-Edge - Tyndale Monument - North Nibley 29th July 2021

 

David and Jane's Tyndale Monument stroll started when we met up in Wotton-Under-Edge to walk (part of  ) the Cotswold Way. Sadly Jane could not join us.

After the steep climb up, we enjoyed stunning views across the town, Cotswolds and Severn flatlands.

and followed the Way through the beech woods until we broke out into the open at the 19th Century Monument

to the first translator of the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek, martyred in 1536 in Flanders after betrayal to the Catholic Holy Roman Empire authorities by an English spy probably sent by the Bishop of London. Again the views as far as Cadbury Camp above Clevedon or  even Crook's Peak 

, to the Forest of Dean and even Hay Bluff, down across the Severn Estuary and the great Bridges and Nuclear Power Stations were spectacular.

Down we plunged through more lovely beech woods where Roger spotted this butterfly,

And so to lunch at the Black Horse

in North Nibley and back up over the hill to Wotton, where we dispersed.

David Bruce cycled off towards Yate and home but was interrupted in his gentle progress by a phone call telling him his wallet had been found up on high Cotswold. Two most kind women from Dursley had it safe in their home in Cam so twenty tiring miles later, he picked it up, thanked them profusely and caught a train back to Bristol from Cam and Dursley station