Eventually, after crossing the M4, the mainline railway at Pilning and the access road to The Wave - an artificial surfing lake - the route arrives at Easter Compton and picks up the waymarked Community Forest path. Once past the church and across the road, the Slow Way heads up the interestingly named Spaniorum Hill, and the surrounds are smaller, rougher fields and orchards. On the top of the hill the route heads around the edges of flat grassy fields and there are bluebells in the woods at this time of year. At the end of the hill is another motorway crossing using a minor access road over a bridge. Follow the road down (there was a bit of fly tipping beside it and there is a load of housebuilding in progress on adjacent land but the woods to the west of the road are still beautiful) and turn in to a path through some pony paddocks at the bottom of the hill (slow way plot correct here) before crossing the railway into the edge of Bristol at Henbury. Here I would skip the nice enough fiddly detour round the back of the school using the Community Forest path that the the slow way suggests, and go straight along the B-road. The Slow Way again follows the Community Forest Path, routing from Blaise castle museum down into the steep, wooded, limestone valley and climbs back up the steep hill through the woods back out again....

Mockymock

I love the extensive views along the Severn estuary towards the new bridge, and being high up above the river. I walked from Aust to Chepstow, and it was interesting to look back at the cliff on the England side when I was a short way across the bridge, to see the distinct layers in the rock....

Mary Oz

It was lovely to reach the quieter road at the top of Almondsbury. Before heading down the footpath I went a few steps beyond, to see the great view across the Severn estuary with its two huge bridges. The footpath down Almondsbury Hill was quite steeply downhill. For those heading up this hill, there are a couple of benches where you can get your breath back....

Mary Oz

I walked the route from Aust to Bradley Stoke. The route heads out of Aust along a track and reaches an area where a new wetland is being created as part of major flood defence works on the River Severn. Just north of the M4, the Slow Way joins a track over the motorway, arriving at a minor road by Greenditch Farm. There is then getting on for a mile of (safe) walking along the pavement by this major road and a crossing of a motorway junction (at traffic lights), and another big roundabout (ditto) before the route takes to pathways through the modern housing estates to get to the massive shopping centre at Bradley Stoke....

Mockymock

This has now been removed, after a change in the network, with Aust being added as a Slow Ways place. I walked Filton to Aust. Once through Catbrain, then around the edge of the monster Cribb's Causeway shopping centre and across the main road, it is all change as the Slow Way heads down into the Severn Vale. Approaching Aust, the Slow Way goes through a new wetland which has been created as part of major flood defence works along the River Severn....

Mockymock

The crossing of the A403 just out of Aust is not as fearsome as it looks because is an old main road dating back to the days before the Second Severn Crossing was built and far less used now, so safe....

Mockymock

I originally walked this as part of a now-deleted Slow Way between Thornbury and Chepstow (Aust has recently been added as a Slow Ways place)....

Mockymock

The walk out to the bridge through Chepstow was through steep sided woodland and ver pleasant....

Tim Ryan

This section of the route was very pleasant and easy to follow....

Tim Ryan