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The 'Five Valleys' are a group of valleys in Gloucestershire, England, which converge on the town of Stroud at the western edge of the Cotswolds. The valleys are as follows:

★ The Frome valley (known as the "Golden Valley" above Stroud)

★ The Nailsworth Valley

★ The Toadsmoor Valley

★ The Slad Valley (of ''Cider with Rosie'' fame)

★ The Painswick Valley
The 'Five Valleys Walk' is a popular circular walk of some 21 miles around Stroud. It is held annually, in aid of the Stroud-based Meningitis Trust, usually on the last Sunday in September. A more exacting version of this walk has also been published, as the "Five Valleys Circuit" (see Barry Hill, ''Walking the South Gloucestershire Cotswolds'', pp. 100–116); this includes an ascent over the high ground of Selsley Common rather than the charity walk's low-level route from Stonehouse to Nailsworth, up the old railway line by the Nailsworth Stream.

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Hill, Barry ''Walking the South Gloucestershire Cotswolds'', Thornhill Press (Cheltenham) 1992