Walks in the Cotswolds

[artnbarb]

I just read the thread about walking in Winchcombe. Pauline, we want to do a few walks this summer, and I'd love to see a variety of landscapes if possible. Obviously there are walks out of Chipping Campden, where we'll be based, which will be very convenient for one and/or morning or afternoon. After that, how would you select areas, or specific walks?

We'd love to walk with you and Steve, so perhaps you have a favorite you want to see again, or a walk you just haven't gotten around to. Do you have a "best of" list for walks in the Cotswolds? I'd like at least 5 or 6 to choose from. I'm not sure how much we'll walk - time, weather and unforseen factors have a way of changing the best laid plans!

 

[Pauline]

On Cotswolder I list my favorite hikes for each market town. Here is the list for Chipping Campden (at the bottom of the page). But that is a good idea to put together a list of my favorites. I will do that and probably put it on Cotswolder, but will link to it here.

From Chipping Campden you could walk on the Cotswold Way to Broadway (5 miles) and then take the bus back. The bus only runs 3 times a day, so you have to plan it carefully.

There is also a lovely flat walk to Broad Campden. @Kathy has done this many times. We've done it twice.

The tourist office in CC is good and they have a brochure showing the local walks.

We would love to do a walk with you and maybe we can even do something where we leave one car at the start and one at the end. We did this with Kathy and walked from Chipping Campden to Moreton - that was a nice walk.

Probably my favorite walk is on the Cotswold Way from Broadway to Stanway (6 miles - one climb at the start). That would take us 3 hours (we walk around 2.5 miles per hour on the Cotswold Way). There is good parking in Stanton and in Broadway. That could work - we would meet you in Stanton, leave your car, then drive to Broadway.

I will get thinking about this.

Photo of thatched house in Stanton.

 

[artnbarb]

I like your thinking!

 

[Felicity]

Will you have a car? There is a very interesting walk from Adelstsrop (in the Evenlode valley near Moreton in Marsh) - parking at the village hall - through the Daylesford Estate, past the Daylesford Organic shop (yum!), along the road a bit, then across the fields to Lower Oddington where you can have a really nice lunch in the Fox. From there walk back a different way to Adelstrop passing the village cricket pitch on the estate there and then the house where Jane Austen used to stay with her cousin (not visitable unfortunately) and popping into the delightful church there where she used to attend services with members of her family. Adelstrop was made famous by the war poet, Edward Thomas (killed at Arras in 1917) in his poem starting, "Yes, I remember Adelstrop". Sadly the train no longer stops there.

 

[Pauline]

I love Adelstrop. I go into that church and think "Jane Austen walked here".

I have looked at that hike in one of my walking books but have never done it. Thanks for the recommendation @Felicity !

 

[Felicity]

It is handy having the car park at the village hall as the road is really too narrow to 'perch' on the side. You just pop a small donation in their box.