The The Gustav Holst Way Historic Walks in the Gustav Holst Way Historic Walks in the Cotswolds The Gustav Holst Way is a medium distance ramblers’ route from Cranham to Wyck Rissington, via from Cranham to Wyck Rissington and Bourton. Each of these places has Points of interest some association with the composer, and the broad stretch of Cotswold country between them was also • Cranham Church well known to Holst, who spent many pleasant days • The Buckholt walking in the uplands and dales. • Crickley Hill

• Waymark • Devil’s Chimney Holst Birthplace Museum • Tramway Cottage Waymark • Gustav Holst statue Gustav Holst statue Guiting Power • Holst Birthplace Museum Cheltenham Prestbury • Gates Wyck Rissington Bourton on the Water • • Queens Wood • Belas Knap • Guiting Power Cranham • Bourton on the Water • Wyck Rissington Church

Detours

• All Saints Church GUIDE OVERVIEW • Cleeve Hill • Spoonley Wood • Naunton Designed by www.artofhouse.com

For More Information Maps, FULL GUIDE DOWNLOADABLE FROM: Photographs and Detailed Guide, visit www.holstmuseum.org.uk www.holstmuseum.org.uk Section 1: Cranham Church to Crickley Hill Section 3: Holst Birthplace Museum to Corndean Lane Section 5: Guiting Power to Wyck Rissington

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The Gustav Holst Way starts from Cranham Church, From the Holst Birthplace Museum, Section three From Guiting Power, the fifth and final section where Holst’s mother Clara played the harmonium, of the Gustav Holst Way heads out into the north of the Gustav Holst Way continues across open and continues through Cranham village and up into Cotswolds. It leaves Cheltenham through Pittville fields to the pretty village of Naunton, with its Cranham woods, passing two houses associated Park, past the splendid Pump Room, and, skirting historic stone dovecot. A pleasant walk through with Holst, Midwinter Cottage and Buckholt the Racecourse, reaches the pleasant satellite the meadows by the leads to the Cottage. The route then follows the Cotswold village of Prestbury. It then climbs high over tourist mecca of Bourton on the Water, where Holst Way along the Cotswold edge, through magnificent the open common of Cleeve Hill, the highest conducted the local Choral Society in the 1890s. beech woods, passing below Birdlip village. Soon, point of the Cotswolds, with more magnificent From here, the route goes through the fascinating you come out of the woods to walk along the open views. It then passes the Neolithic long barrow Iron age archaeological site and nature reserve of edge with magnificent views stretching to the of Belas Knap, to descend steeply to end on the Salmonsbury, and then through meadows to reach Welsh mountains. The section ends at the Crickley rural Corndean Lane. From here, it is a walk of Wyck Rissington, where the Gustav Holst Way ends Hill country park, where there is a visitor centre about a mile down into for buses and at the Church. Holst was organist here in 1892-3, and toilets. refreshments, if wanted. at the salary of £4 per annum!

Section 2: Crickley Hill to Holst Birthplace Museum Section 4: Corndean Lane to Guiting Power Holst Birthplace Museum 4 Clarence Road Cheltenham 7.2 miles 3 hours 6.9 miles GL52 2AY 3 hours From Crickley Hill country park, Section two TEL: 01242 524846 of the Gustav Holst Way continues to follow the From Corndean Lane, Section four of the Gustav www.holstmuseum.org.uk along the Cotswold edge to reach Holst Way descends into the head of the great The Regency terrace house where Gustav Holst, Hill, which towers over the southern coombe behind Sudeley Castle, and then climbs composer of The Planets, was born in 1874. The side of Cheltenham. The route descends the hill, up again to the ancient ridgeway route of the Salt story of the man and his music is told alongside a past the famous Devil’s Chimney and down an Way (with an optional detour via Spoonley Wood fascinating display of personal belongings including old quarry incline, to enter Cheltenham through to search for the remains of a Roman Villa). From his piano. The museum is also a fine period house generally quiet suburban streets and parks. In the the Salt Way, it runs through the commercial showing the upstairs downstairs way of life in times town centre, it passes the recent statue of Gustav forestry of Guiting Wood and the pleasant parkland past, including a working Victorian kitchen and Holst in Imperial Gardens, to reach the Holst of Guiting Manor to end at the picture postcard laundry, elegant Regency drawing room and charming Birthplace Museum on the edge of Pittville. Cotswold village of Guiting Power. Edwardian nursery.