Gloucestershire Snowshill

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ON PAGE 68 Nuzzling at the head of Nuzzling at the head of Diary , the snow was fake. screen role in Bridget Jones’s the Cotswolds. Yet for its big longer, than anywhere else in arrive here sooner, and persist the wintry white stuff can apparently so-called because pubs in the three picturesque home to one of two great escarpment into Stanton, It drops down this limestone traverses the Cotswold Edge. joins the Cotswold Way as it Way, this undulating walk Beginning on the Winchcombe beautiful year-round. chocolate box village is a combe, 750 feet up, this FEATURE metres km 20 0 40 0 60 0 0 0 as locals say it) is Snowshill (or ‘Snozell’ PHILIP THOMAS CHOSEN BY… 03 u Distance: 8½ miles/13.4km u miles/13.4km 8½ Distance: 2 4

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6 fields back to Snowshill. woodland and across muddy J.M. Barrie), tracks climb into house (once frequented by charming Jacobean manor parkland to Stanway and its villages on route. Crossing 1 kissing gate and turn L through gate (WW). Cross field to mile. Turn L through kissing Turn R and follow track for ½ trees and uphill to gate/track. path L, following fence out of thicket. Cross bridge, follow two gates curving L into Follow path downhill through ‘Winchcombe Way’ (WW). Snowshill Manor, waymarked kissing gate by entrance to L down road, then L through GR ADIENT PROFILE From the car park, turn Start 8 Snow-sprinkled hills

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TOM BAILEY TOM PHOTO: ‘Cotswold Way’ (CW). byway waymarked 5-bar gate on a restricted 14 Landranger 150 Maps OS Explorer OL45, Public toiletsPublic None Stanton (01386 584316) (seasonal), Mount Inn at Snowshill Manor tea room Arms (01386 852653), NT Refreshments Snowshill Chipping Campden Nearest town PLANNING Stiles 2 ascents/descents two longer but gradual muddy field paths, with tracks, quiet lanes and trails on farm/woodland follows two waymarked undulating walk largely Is it for me? This grid ref SP096340 car park, WR12 7JR, Start/parking Snowshill ROUTE PLAN YOUR WALK YOUR PLAN transport None 16 A

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SOUTH WEST ✁ pub was saved from closure, overall distance a little). The village (which reduces the as easily be started from the the walk, this route can just enjoy the pub at the end of those who would prefer to regular train services), but for Amberley station (served by for walkers starting from makes an ideal lunch stop the George and Dragon Inn), name; it was previously called at Burpham (to give it its full 17th century pub, The George Arundel. Its award-winning valley a couple of miles from hillside overlooking the Arun Burpham is situated on a

metres up Amberley Mount. Looking back on the climb km 20 0 40 0 60 0 0 0 Downs village of The lovely South FIONA BARLTROP CHOSEN BY… 04 u Distance: 12 miles/20km u miles/20km 12 Distance: 2 4

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6 1 cross road and turn R along Worth a visit. Exit station, history of the south-east. is dedicated to the industrial to the station. The open-air site former chalk quarry next door & Heritage Centre, sited in a to the Amberley Museum park is another for visitors taking a shortcut to pt 3. Downs Way before pt 2 and by turning off the South It’s easy to shorten the route Way, ideal for striding out on. stretch of the South Downs including a fine ridge-top this walk is on good tracks, Despite the distance, much of 2013 with much local support. refurbished and reopened in GR ADIENT PROFILE Adjoining the station car Start Time: 6 hours u 6 hours Time:

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FIONA BARLTROP FIONA PHOTO: called High Titten. Further up road again and turn R up lane pavement. After c.500m cross 14 ROUTE Landranger 197 Maps OS Explorer 121; trains serve Amberley London-Bognor Regis transportPublic toiletsPublic At start both Amberley Rooms & Bridge Inn, at Burpham; Riverside Tea Refreshments The George Arundel and Storrington Nearest towns PLANNING Stiles 9 from Houghton Bridge Take care along roadside Way National Trail. NB stretch of South Downs roads. Part of route follows riverside bank, minor tracks, grassy downland, Is it for me? Chalk/flint grid ref TQ026118 station car park, BN18 9LR, Start/parking Amberley PLAN YOUR WALK YOUR PLAN 16 A B

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SOUTH EAST DATE WALKED TIME TAKEN YOUR RATING

DECEMBER 2018 1 START 2 IN ASSOCIATION WITH OS MAPS OS lfto.com/cwroutes OS MAPS ONLINE: VIEW ON THE WALK and bridleway L and continue L and continue and bridleway with Winchcombe junction to bends R track As farm Way. gate/s again, turn L through WW At WW. on waymarked trail follow fingerpost, muddy two diagonally R across R Turn lane. to fields down T-junction then at lane, down into houses, L downhill after L of road Follow Snowshill. village and through church start. back to 3 6

4 7 miles/11.3km L of barn gate Go through 5½ miles/8.9km L on signed CW Follow 5

6 5 gravel track, then footpath then footpath track, gravel L of old watermill. gate through across trail marked Follow gate/ to stream field/around and turn L uphill along road (leaving pavement narrow on up lane Go straight CW). bends R. Ignore when road L, but shortly after drive paved up cottages L between fork sunken into signed bridleway Wood. Longpark around track at ahead on bridle track Stay edge climbing to junctions, Farm. Parks by of wood and follow farm track L. As it track farm and follow path diverging bends R, ignore ©CROWN COPYRIGHT 2018 ORDNANCE SURVEY. MEDIA 007/18 MEDIA SURVEY. ORDNANCE 2018 COPYRIGHT ©CROWN

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GLOUCESTERSHIRE SNOWSHILL At T-junction by lantern, lantern, by T-junction At 4 miles/6.4km 3 miles/4.8km R of k-gate Go through 1½ miles/2.4km next through track Follow OS Explorer map OL45 u A waymarked path leads path A waymarked bridges gates/over through of London avenue and across veering gradually Plane trees, Stanway L past Turn lane. R to church, L past swinging House, gatehouse. then R past follow signposted CW L down L down CW signposted follow go R uphill for (or High Street L at Inn). Swing Mount The second, then take junction, next lane L after rougher Follow CW. signposted lantern, across gate R through CW field and ‘ridge & furrow’ bridge RH gate/over through next to trail Follow side. far at Park. Stanway into gate 2 3 4 gate to signpost. Stay ahead Stay signpost. to gate another ¾ mile, for on CW track. wider farm into merging fingerpost, first ahead at Stay cattle R over CW then follow for track Follow next. grid at continuing nearly ½ mile, signpost. on at straight house on Shenberrow Hill and house on Shenberrow curving R downhill CW follow open through on muddy path and stile land. Cross access along R field edge. path follow stile, over trees R through Cut markers trail then follow pond through downhill/around L, following Turn gates. two and winding lane track farm Stanton. into u 03

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IN ASSOCIATION WITH OS MAPS OS 10⅓ miles/16.6km then lane, on down Carry lfto.com/cwroutes OS MAPS ONLINE: VIEW ON THE WALK bridleway heading north, bridleway and bearing a fork L at keeping lane. join a rough L to to round 5 fork R down bridleway to Stoke Stoke to bridleway R down fork R, then L along Turn Road. and R riverbank to footpath R along Bridge. Houghton to station. back to road 3

Pass pub L and church R pub L and church Pass 8½ miles/13.65km 6½ miles/10.4km Turn R then fork L along a R then fork Turn and follow lane round to R. At R. At to lane round and follow turn R, then L Farm Peppering Peppering to junction next at along High Barn. Continue 3 4 footpath, following track as it track following footpath, bends track L. When to curves ahead along grassy L keep bear R a junction At footpath. downhill path then L and follow leads to that joining a drive R and soon L down Turn road. then R along a footpath drive, stile Cross a junction. and L to Cross steps. and bear R down and carry on to footbridge junction. R and L at Turn road. 4

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WEST SUSSEX WEST BURPHAM START 1 4⅛ miles/6.6km L ignore gate, R through OS Explorer map 121 u

u another lane joins from L. another lane joins from turn L up bridleway Soon after Way/SDW) Downs (South 2 to ascend Amberley Mount Amberley ascend to on a climb but once – quite over walking easy it’s top Rackham Hill and Springhead Hill car park. Kithurst Hill to Another car park is reached the a mile further on by Post. Chantry fork and follow track downhill downhill track and follow fork Hill. Continue Harrow towards R passing as it bears on track direction Maintain Farm. Lee on, on L. Further ignoring track turn a bridleway passed having a T-junction. reach on L, you 04 007/18 MEDIA SURVEY. ORDNANCE 2018 COPYRIGHT ©CROWN

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