Cycle routes from Kemble Station Cycle Route 1: The Infant Thames

An easy ride through quiet villages into the ; passing country pubs country parks and close to the source of the magnificent . Stop to picnic, swim, windsurf, walk, bird watch or take cycle routes deeper into the lakes area. B4450

Churchill Grade: Easy Kingham Knolbury Hillfort Time: 2-3 hours Kingham Key Station Chadlington Distance: 16 km/10 miles Cycle route Stops/Pubs: A361 • The Tavern Inn, Kemble (01285 770216) 12 • The Wild Duck, Ewen (01285 770310) Bruern Lyneham • The Greyhound, Siddington Foxholes Abbey Siddington Nature River Envenlode (01285 653573) 3 Reserve Bruern Shop

Wood • The Bakers Arms, A429 (01285 861298) Fifield Roman Road • Shops and café at Cotswold Country Park & Beach (01285 868096)

Sheepwash Attractions: Cotswold Country Park Thames & A424 Wychwood National Barington Milton-under and Beach, and Neigh Bridge Country Park. Severn Bushes Forest Taynton Wychwood Bushes Leafield Highlights along the route B4437 • Cotswold Country Park & Beach 11 Great A361 2 Taynton • The infant Thames Ewen Barrington Shop • Thames & Severn Canal Kemble Kemble Station 1 10 Astall • Shorncote Parker’s B4450 Bridge Little A40 Leigh Barrington Minster Cotswold Country Park & Beach Burford 6 Lovell An attractive country park and ideal family Shorncote A4425 day out. The Park offers everything from A4020 Thames 4 peaceful lakeside walks, a fossil and Path A40 sculpture trail and cycle hire to the UK’s Cotswold A361 largest inland beach with boat hire, 5 Country Park & Beach Shilton lakeside barbeques and Watermark Café. Somerford 7 Keynes Cotswold 8 The infant Thames Wildlife Park Brize Norton This cycle route crosses the infant Thames HIRE Go by cycle at Parker’s Bridge. The usual quoted source Neigh Bridge Charterton Country Park of the River Thames is at , about a mile further upstream which is also the start of the 184-mile Thames Path National Trail, following the great river through to the at . See page 2 for route description.

Cotswolds Conservation Board Fosse Way, Northleach, GL54 3JH, Tel: 01451 862000. www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk Cycle routes from Kemble Station Cycle Route 1: The Infant Thames

Thames & Severn Canal Route Description Completed in 1789, this beautiful canal 1 Leave the main station car park located by the ticket office. Turn right at the road. Go through the once linked straight over at the crossroads and follow signs for Ewen, bearing left once out of Kemble, the River Thames to the . and over the Thames at Parker’s Bridge. Now under restoration as part of the Cotswold route, the reopened 2 In Ewen turn left and then right, signed Siddington. Follow the lane for 2 miles, passing a canal will enable boats to navigate visible section of the Thames & Severn Canal, then turn left and first right signed Siddington. between ’s two greatest rivers After 1/2 mile and just into Siddington, turn right to Upper Siddington, signed ‘weak bridge’. once again. 3 Over the canal where there are some old locks, at the T-junction turn right and then take Shorncote the first left. At the next T-junction turn right (take care) and thentake the first left signed This village is reputed to be the smallest Shorncote. At the next T-junction turn left, passing the Cotswold Water Park signs. Cotswold village in Gloucestershire, consisting Country Park & Beach is on your left. of a church, two farmhouses and six cottages. 4 Having stopped off here, continue through the water park in the same direction and then turn right, following signs for Somerford Keynes. In the village, turn right at T-junction, signposted Siddington (go left to visit Neigh Bridge Country Park).

5 Just out of the village turn left, signed Ewen. Follow the lane for 1 1/2 miles. Turn left at the T-junction, through Ewen and return to Kemble station.

Cotswolds Conservation Board Fosse Way, Northleach, Gloucestershire GL54 3JH, Tel: 01451 862000. www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk