 The cleared areas can be seen from the M5, and the Cotswold Way has now been re-routed around the Hill to take advantage of this work.The novelist Evelyn Waugh lived at Piers Court in Stinchcombe from 1937 to 1956.During this time he wrote some of his best known works, including "Scoop", "Brideshead Revisited", "Men at Arms" and "Officers and Gentlemen".