The following itinerary has been put together to enable you to complete the walk in 9 days, on an average of 11 miles or six hours hours per days. Some of the landmarks along the way have also been identified in each section.
For those of you who wish to take time to explore the many pretty villages, sample the real ales and/or admire the views along the Way, or wish to complete the Walk in fewer days, then please contact us so that we can tailor the stages to suit your plans.
| Section | Distance | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chipping Campden - Stanton | 10.5 miles | 16.8 km |
| 2 | Stanton - Woodmancote | 14.0 miles | 22.4 km |
| 3 | Woodmancote - Birdlip | 14.8 miles | 23.7 km |
| 4 | Birdlip - Painswick | 8.6 miles | 13.8 km |
| 5 | Painswick - Middleyard | 10.0 miles | 16.0 km |
| 6 | Middleyard - Wotton-under-Edge | 12.0 miles | 19.2 km |
| 7 | Wotton-under-Edge - Little Sodbury | 11.0 miles | 17.6 km |
| 8 | Little Sodbury - Cold Ashton | 11.0 miles | 17.6 km |
| 9 | Cold Ashton - Bath | 10.0 miles | 16.0 km |
Landmarks: Chipping Campden - Dover's Hill (spectacular view) - Broadway Tower (a turreted folly on Fish Hill - second highest point on the Cotswolds) - Broadway (charming village) - Stanton (Quintessential Cotswold village)
Landmarks: Stanton - Stanway House (Jacobean manor with the world's tallest gravity fountain) - Wood Stanway (hamlet)- Hailes Abbey (the ruins of a once great cistercian monastry) - Winchcombe (and a minor detour to Sudeley Castle, the resting place of Henry VIII's last wife) - Belas Knap (neolithic burial chambers with panoramic views) - Postlip - Cleeve Hill (ancient common, highest point on the Cotswolds)
Landmarks: Dowdeswell Reservoir - Leckhampton Hill (Iron Age hill-fort) & the Devil's Chimney Crickley Hill Country Park (Site of Special Scientific Interest)- Crickley Hill - Birdlip
Landmarks: Cooper's Hill (cheese rolling in May) - Painswick Beacon (Iron Age hill fort & panoramic view) - Painswick (count the 99 yew trees in the grounds of St Mary's Church & stroll in the Rococo garden)
Landmarks: Painswick - Haresfield Beacon (iron age hill fort with spectacular views) - Stroudwater Navigation at Ryeford (option: shorter route via Kings Stanley or longer route over Selsley Common) - Middleyard
Landmarks: Middleyard - Woodchester Mansion & Park (a little detour!) - Nympsfield Long Barrow (Neolithic burian chamber) - Coaley Peak (panoramic view) - Uley Long Barrow (crawl inside the chamber!) - The Cam (360o view) - Dursley (choice of a longer route around Stinchcombe Hill) - Tyndale Monument (obelisk like, commemorating William Tyndale, the first man to translate the Bible into English) - Wotton under Edge (picturesque village)
Landmarks: Wotton under Edge - Newark Park (National Trust house and ground) - Hawkesbury Upton (attractive village - a short detour from route-) - Horton (and a detour to Horton Court, National Trust) - Little Sodbury
Landmarks: Little Sodbury - St John the Baptist Church at Old Sodbury - Tormarton (attractive village) - Dyrham Park (National Trust, Baroque style house, set location for the 1993 Merchant Ivory film "The Remains of the Day") - Cold Ashton
Cold Ashton - site of the Battle of Lansdown (1643) - Bath