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Trout Farm This walk last checked 01/2016 Distance: 6.5 km/ Start 4 miles with an up and Museum Swan Inn 5 down of 110 m/360ft B442 Arlington Bibury 1 1 Time: 2 hours Pub C School h Arlington u Start: Bibury (near rc Row h Bibury Cirencester) on the river Rd Court 1 Hotel bridge by the Swan Inn (SP 115/069). Refreshments at Cricket two inns or the trout farm, Ground and toilets near the start.
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Route: New N Park by the river near Barn the Swan Inn and walk Ash downstream along the Shagborough Copse B4425. After a footbridge Copse bear right into the village, then left before the church uphill to the main road. Turn 0 km 0.5 right along the pavement for Furzey Barn Farm (course of Roman road) 80m then fork right on a lane 0 miles ¼ signed to Coln St. Aldwyns Akeman Street for 40m. Here turn right Copse (butterflies and wild downhill on a private road flowers in summer) and your Coneygar 3 alongside the former Bibury climbing will soon be over. Cottages Court Hotel 1 . years ago it was scooped 1 Leaving the wood turn out to provide water for the Map based upon OS mapping, Cross the river and bear right right onto a track between sheep grazing on the high © Crown Copyright licence no: 100040971 uphill past the old mill stones hedges. Where there’s a gap pasture. houses to a tiny triangular following the tarmac past a on the left you cross the line green. Fork right downhill big house on your left. After of Akeman Street, a Roman Follow the track, crossing to Arlington Row, the most a wide gate take the track from London to Cirencester. the invisible Roman road photographed cottages in ahead, soon climbing into again and go straight ahead the Cotswolds. Oxhill Wood. At the top 2 At the road 3 turn right gently down and up for 2km. bear left for 600m (muddy past Coneygar Cottages for Look out for a water tank on From here you can turn left at times) and drop down to 200m, then right again on bricks on your right, because before the cottages and walk a gate or a stone stile into a a footpath gently downhill. you’ll soon turn right. Follow alongside the meadow back meadow via a footbridge. After a gate at 200m walk the stone wall until it ends to the bridge; or go past the across to your left to a 4 , turn right on a grassy cottages to the river and the Now head half right uphill mound that hides a small path and head for the gate road where you started. through a gate into Ash pond (it may be dry). Many ahead that leads between Cotswolds Conservation Board www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk See the next page for more details about the walk. Miles Without Stiles Bibury and the River Coln
Cotswolds Conservation Board For details of more walking routes in the Cotswolds Area of Tel: 01451 862000 Outstanding Natural Beauty visit: www.escapetothecotswolds.org.uk