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Cotswold Way Circular Walks

2. Broadway and the Tower

This enchanting walk leads you 0 Miles 0.5 through the picturesque Station Road Cotswold high street of Broadway 0 Kms 0.5 Broadway, along historic tracks 7 1 A44 and up to the intriguing 2 Broadway Tower with its CheltenhamRoad Start spectacular views across the Fish Hill Severn Vale into . The perfect chance to taste a little West Cotswold End Lane more of all the has to Way offer.

Distance: N 4 miles or 6.5km Duration: 2½ - 3 hrs (Without stops) Broadway Difficulty: Chipping Court Moderate, some steep sections and Campden Broadway Tower 6 stiles Broadway 3 Coneygree Country Park Public transport: Lane Tower

Snowshill Road Snowshill 4 No. 606 bus from and Café Buckle Street .1, 2 &H3 between Stratford on Avon and Chipping Campden; Rural 4 5 Cresswells from . (See the The Bath ‘Explore the Cotswolds’ public Rookery 10/17 transport guide or visit www. traveline.info

Start/Finish: straight across the field, through track a further 200m then turn left walk, pass through a second high Grid reference SP 096/375 the kissing gate at the other side, through another 2-in-1 gate just kissing gate below the tower onto (OS Explorer sheet OL45) over a small footbridge and through after two stone gate posts. the Cotswold Way and turn left Postcode WR12 7AA another gate into a ‘ridge and down towards a gate. Follow the 5 Walk up the track until you Cotswold Way signs down the hill Refreshments: furrow’ field. Be wary of muddy areas near these gates after wet reach Rookery Farm. Keeping the for a mile (1.6km)including one Numerous cafés and in weather. Continue to follow the farm buildings on your left, continue flight of steps with a wonderful Broadway. Café at Broadway Tower direction arrows through two more straight on up the metalled track dry-stone wall on your right which Country Park kissing gates and fields until you then through a kissing gate on the is part of a long term volunteer Public toilets in Broadway.. reach the road. Watching for traffic, left. Go across the field and through restoration project. Parking turn left and continue up Snowshill the gate into the grounds of the There is car parking off Road until you reach St Eadburgha’s café. Just by the main entrance pass Towards the bottom, the path levels Cheltenham Road, behind the High Church, parts of which date back to through the tall kissing gate and out; continue to follow the signs Street and off Leamington Road. the 11th Century. head on up towards the tower. through two metal kissing gates and over a stream, heading for the 3 Turn left just after the 6 You are now at the second houses at the far side of the last 1 Start at the war memorial at church, through the gateway into highest point in the Cotswolds with field. Pass through two more gates the bottom of the grass-fringed Coneygree Lane, named after its beautiful landscape laid out and follow the alley towards the High Street and walk eastwards up the medieval ‘free’ rabbit warren beneath you, so take a few minutes road. past the red phone boxes. Continue granted here by King Henry III in to soak in the breath-taking views on past the shops until you reach a 1251. Follow the track up hill for over fields, hills and hedgerows as 7 Turn left and continue down sign pointing right, ‘activity park & just over half a mile (0.8km). far as South Wales in the distance. the High Street, back towards the picnic area’. memorial at the start. Broadway, 4 At the top of the track, turn A climb up the tower, a folly built the ‘Jewel of the Cotswolds’, is the 2 Follow this path between the right and continue on through a in 1798 for Lady Coventry, is well perfect place to seek out a or avenue of trees with the playground 2-in-1 gate, following the path worth the extra 55 feet – on a café to rest tired feet and to plan on your left, and pass through the through the field, passing to the clear day, you can see 13 counties your next walk on the Cotswold kissing gate at the end. Continue right of the house. Follow the from the top! To continue the Way.

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