14 Day Cotswold Way Self Guided Itinerary

Stage	Journey Details	Distance in Miles/Kms
Day 1 Arrive Chipping Campden	Travel to Chipping Campden where your first night’s accommodation is booked. Have a relaxing evening before your start. Chipping Campden is a historic market town and beautiful example of Cotswold stone craftsmanship.
Day 2 Chipping Campden to Brodway.	Walking up and along the Cotswold escarpment, with fine views, this walk takes you to Broadway Tower built as a folly in 1799 and onto the picturesque Cotswold village of Broadway.	10/16
Day 3 Broadway to Winchcombe	Your longest walking day and also one of our favourite stretches of the route, highlights include: iron age hill forts of Shenberrow & Beckbury Camp, the superb villages of Stanton and Stanway with its Jacobean manor house and very impressive fountain, Hayles Abbey site of historic pilgrimages and onto Winchcombe - the capital of ancient Mercia	11/17.5
Day 4 Winchcombe to Dowdeswell	From Winchcombe and the nearby Sudeley Castle, the trail continues to Belas Knap ancient longbarrow, then winds its way to Cleeve Hill the highest point of the Cotswolds at 317 mtres and offers fine views of the surrounding countryside, you will shortly pass “Bill Smylie’s butterfly reserve” and later decend to Dowdeswell Reservoir.	10/16
Day 5 Dowdeswell to Birdlip	Today the route passes through woodland up and over farmland and onto Seven Springs, believed by some to be the source of the river Thames, following on with fine views onto Leckhampton Hill and the “Devils Chimney” manmade rock structure and local focal point. More excellent views take you through Crickley Hill Park and up to the pretty hamlet of Birdlip.	10/16
Day 6 Birdlip to Painswick	Today’s walk passes through woodlands. At the Roman Villa at Witcombe, a bath house and fine mosaics have been unearthed. Cooper’s Hill offers fine views, formed part of an Iron Age encampment and is today famous for its annual “Cheese Roll”, the walk is completed at the picturesque Cotswold stone village of Painswick with streets dating back to the 13th Century.	8.5/13.5
Day 7 Painswick to Kings Stanley	This section of the trail offers some fine sightseeing with the views from Haresfield Beacon over the Severn valley below, being quite wonderful. The route descends gently through Standish Woods and into the Stroud Valleys.	8/13
Day 8 Kings Stanley to Dursley	Today's walk is quite hilly but rewards you with fine vistas at Coaley Peak and historic sites, including a Neolithic long barrow and Iron Age fort. The walking trail passes down into a valley through farmland and onto your destination of Dursley, a town once famous for its wool and cloth.	7/11
Day 9 Dursley To Wotton under Edge	A steep climp up Stinchcombe Hill rewards you with more lovely views then onto North Nibley and you will see The Tynedale Monument, a prominent landmark. Grass and woodland take you onto Wotton-under-Edge dating back to Saxon times, there is today a fine mixture of old buildings plus a selection of pubs, shops and places to eat. This part of the Cotswolds were once very important centres for cloth and woollen industries.	7/11
Day 10 Wotton under Edge to Hawkesbury	Today you will pass close to The National Trust property of Newark Park then take a very pretty woodland track to the village of Alderley. Onwards through a valley then climbing to The Somerset Monument before heading towards the village of Hawkesbury.	7.5/12
Day 11  Hawkesbury To Tormarton	This section is very rural with views towards Bristol and the Severn Bridge crossings. The highlights are Sodbury Hill Fort with 11 acres of ramparts and ditches with Iron Age and Roman origins. The walk through Dodington Park, landscaped by Capability Brown, is a highlight before crossing fields onto the village of Tormarton	7.5/12

Day 12   Tormarton to Cold Ashton

The trail today passes Dyrham Park (National Trust), famous for deer and a fine Tudor mansion and is worth visiting. Onwards then into Dyrham Woods before continuing through farmland into Cold Ashton with its magnificent Rectory and manor house.

6.5/10.5

Day 13   Cold Ashton To Bath

The last day’s walking is through a very varied landscape of hills offering fine views. You will climb to the Civil War battle site of Lansdown then onto another hill fort and Bath Race Course where the trail later descends into the outskirts of Bath, an historic city, famous for its Roman Baths, Abbey and Royal Crescent

10/16

Day 14   Depart after breakfast

Explore Bath/ return Home

Cost £910 per person based upon 2 sharing

(single supplement £195 per person)

Upgrades are available for your overnight accommodation. Please contact us for further information.

• Transfers back to car or station

• We will tailor your holiday to fit in with your arrival/departure dates

• Arrange parking facilities

• This holiday is available throughout the year and in either direction.

Travel arrangements:

Rail

The nearest railway station to Chipping Campden is Moreton-in-the-Marsh. The journey is 1.75 hours from London (Paddington).

Other stations servicing the Cotswolds are at Cheltenham, Stroud and Bath.

Returning from Bath, there are frequent trains to London (Paddington) of 1.5 hours.

Bus or Taxi service

There is a bus service or taxi from Moreton-in-the-Marsh station to Chipping Campden

Transfers can be arranged by us from Moreton-in-the-Marsh or Cheltenham to Chipping Campden.

Air

Heathrow is the most convenient with rail connections to Moreton-in-the-Marsh via Reading.

Birmingham International Airport has rail connections to Cheltenham via New Street station.

Car

There is long term parking at Chipping Campden or we can arrange parking for you.

  

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