A weekend with walks AT A GLANCE

n Visit in Broadway n Smell the lavender in Snowshill n Lovely boutique shopping n Gorgeous views from Broadway Tower n Gordon Russell Museum n Fabulous children’s play area n Visit

Broadway - Breathtaking views and picturesque village

Art, history, classic Vale (a good place to be available from Broadway Visitor and time to go shopping… during the asparagus season). St Information Centre Eadburgha’s Church is tucked away on Broadway is one of the most beautiful the Snowshill Road but worth finding. Broadway Tower and return (3 miles) Cotswold villages, situated at the The Lygon Arms Hotel was once a local although uphill all the way, this walk is Gateway to the Cotswolds (and only 2 manor house and is something of a worth the climb as the views from the hours from central London). Its wide Cotswold institution – in its time it has top are outstanding. It’s downhill on High Street lined with horse chestnut hosted both Charles I and Oliver return. trees contains a mixture of period Cromwell. houses and picturesque honey Broadway Tower circular walk coloured Cotswold stone cottages There are plenty of great places to eat (Included in the town free guide) which have lured visitors for centuries. here with a good range from higher end restaurants such as The Lygon Arms Broadway to Often referred to as the 'Jewel of the and Russells to good hearty grub at see some gorgeous Cotswold Cotswolds', Broadway village lies many of the and cafes. Broadway countryside on this rural walk. beneath Fish Hill on the western is also well-known for its independent Chipping Campden is a lovely ancient Cotswold escarpment. As its name quality shopping and has a fantastic with boutique shopping suggests, Broadway is dominated by a deli with local and worldwide delicacies. and plenty of things to see when you wide main street lined with shops, arrive. restaurants, hotels and plenty of Walking in and around antique shops. The Cotswold scarp Broadway: Broadway to Buckland, Laverton, runs down through the valley into the Short walks – all of these routes are Stanton, Wood Stanway or walk along the Cotswold

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www.cotswolds.com Broadway - Breathtaking views and picturesque village

Way from Broadway to any of the pretty villages mentioned for a walk to suit your needs and length. Fabulous views from the Cotswold escarpment.

Broadway to Snowshill the climb is worth it as you can visit both Snowshill Manor, a gorgeous and fascinating Manor House and gardens as well as Snowshill Lavender in the Lavender season.

National circular walks – a choice of the following short walks: Chipping Campden; Stanton, Snowshill and the Edge; Winchcombe and Belas Knap; and Cleeve Hill Common Ring; Broadway Tower circular.

Longer walks: Broadway is also on the route of several major longer distance routes: Things to do in Broadway T: +44 (0) 1386 852913 and nearby: www.broadwaymanor.co.uk The – Approx 100 Twitter @broadwaymanor miles of Cotswold countryside following Facebook: n Ashmolean, Broadway the escarpment in a linear walk with www.facebook.com/BroadwayManorCo n panoramic views of the Severn Vale. Broadway Tower ttages See sights along the way such as n Gordon Russell Museum Broadway Tower and the fantastic n Warwickshire views from the top of the Cotswold Railway escarpment. n n Winchcombe Way – this is a new 42 Snowshill Manor mile figure of eight trail centered n Stanway House & Fountain around Winchcombe. The waymarked n Snowshill Lavender trail is designed to show walkers the hidden gems of the northern Accommodation that Ashbrook Barn, Willersey, near Cotswolds. It comes close to Broadway welcomes walkers: Broadway by linking at Snowshill which is www.ashbrookbarnbedandbreakfast. approximately 1.5 miles away. Bed & Breakfast co.uk Broadway Manor Cottages Lowerfield Farm Way – a 42 mile linear www.lowerfieldfarm.com walk takes you through the beautiful Award winning Cotswold holiday cottages in the grounds of a 16th Windrush House Gloucestershire and www.windrushhouse.com countryside. century manor house on the Cotswold Way, a few minutes’ walk from the centre of the village of Visitor Information Centre: Broadway. +44 (0)1386 852 937

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www.cotswolds.com Miles Without Stiles Broadway Village

This short loop walk takes in some of the fascinating old buildings and history of the picturesque Cotswold village of Broadway. It is a perfect accompaniment to an afternoon’s shopping with refreshment available at the nearby pubs and tearooms.

Crossing here, keep the fence on Map based upon OS mapping, Distance: 2.9 kilometres/ © Crown Copyright licence no: 100040971 your left before heading for the 13/4 miles (11/2 hours) with ups far right hand corner of the field, Broadway and downs of 20m or 66ft Museum passing a paddock boundary Start: The Horse & Hounds hedge to reach a gate into 4 Snowshill Road opposite Mill The public house - Broadway Grange Start High Street SP099/375 Hay House. 2 PO

Route: Turn left along Snowshill The walk starts opposite the Road for 300 metres to reach St Horse & Hounds public house Eadburgha’s Church. 3 which can be found on the High The church is generally open Waterloo Street, 100 metres west of the to visitors throughout the year Bridge sharp left turn for Leamington and has examples of early Road. There is a narrow passage English, Norman and Gothic signposted Activity Park and architecture. Picnic Area. To return to Broadway, turn left Snowshill Road Follow this passage for 30 from the church gate to retrace metres until it opens into the your steps along Snowshill Bury End village recreation ground. Follow Road. Be careful of traffic along 1 the main path between two the road; you will pass fences 15 metres apart, to the Broadway Court, with its gate in the bottom right hand intricate carvings above the corner of the recreation ground. front door, the mill and pond are on the left. Further on, there are Go through this gate and thatched and stone cottages. On 2 continue in the same direction the approach to the village, the Mill to the gates and footbridge church of St Michael’s is on the at the tree-covered stream. right, as is the Crown & Trumpet public house. Abbots Grange is After crossing the bridge, on the left, opposite the turning Broadway continue with the fence line on Court for the village green. St Eadburgha's your right to the gate in the next Church 3 field boundary. Go through this 4 Turn right alongside the gate into an open field and bear village green and follow the very slightly left towards a gate High Street back to the starting 0 km 0.5 in the hedge with a culvert point. on the far side. 1 0 miles 0.25 This walk last checked 01/2016

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1. Chipping Campden and Dovers Hill

This delightful short walk leads 0 Miles 0.5 you from the charmingly English Chipping Campden market town of Chipping B4035 0 Kms 0.5 Campden, through shaded woodlands and past breathtaking views. A wonderful introduction B4081 to the Cotswolds, and a perfect 5 start to the Cotswold Way. The Lynches Wood Distance: 6 Bath 4½ miles or 7.2km (Shorter route 3 miles or 4.8km) Dover’s Hill N 4 Duration: 7 2½-3½ hrs (Shorter: 1½-2½ hrs) Difficulty: Moderate, some steep sections 3 (Shorter: Easy, avoids climbs) Topograph Public transport: 8 e Lan mb No. 1 (Johnsons) or 606 o c Chipping g (Marchants) from Broadway. in K No. 1 and 2 (Johnsons) from Campden s Stratford upon Avon (See the Dyer’s Lane d En ‘Explore the Cotswolds’ public ck Ba transport guide or visit www. 1 traveline.info Start Cotswold Way Campden Start/Finish: Wood 2 Grid reference SP 151/392 9/17 (OS Explorer sheet OL45) Postcode GL55 6HB Refreshments: un-made track, leading in half a track and follow it as it turns left 7 Pass a small pond amongst mile (0.8km) to an opening onto downhill towards two gates. Take Numerous cafés and pubs in B4081 trees on your left. Stay with the Chipping Campden. Kingcomb Lane. the left hand kissing gate which track as it bends left up the last bit Public toilets in Sheep Street. emerges onto the hillside and then of hill to the stone topograph on 3 Watching for traffic, turn straight on, keeping the fence on Dover’s Hill. Parking left and walk along the lay-by for your right, to the woods at the There is free parking along the 100 metres. Turn right opposite a bottom. 8 Take a few minutes to catch High Street and other locations. Cotswold Way signpost, entering your breath and enjoy the stunning Walkers are asked to use the free 5 a footpath to a kissing gate leading Pass through another kissing views. If you were here in spring, parking in Back Ends. Dover’s Hill is onto Dover’s Hill (owned and gate into the leafy calm of Lynches you might witness the annual now a paying car park unless you managed by The National Trust) and Wood, with the area’s finest show ‘Olimpick Games’ which have been are a National Trust member (need a taste of the spectacular views to of bluebells in May. A boardwalk played on the hill since 1612, and your N.T. card). come. has been installed where the track continued on and off to the present can be very muddy. Near the day. The games involve painful- bottom of the woods, curve to the 1 Beside the Market Hall is a To take the shorter route and avoid sounding sports such as ‘shin- left and carry on uphill taking the hand carved marker stone for the the steep sections, turn left here and kicking’ and ‘pike-tumbling’. Finally, long flight of steps. At the top of start/end of the Cotswold Way. follow the Cotswold Way directly to the follow the edge of the hill back to the steps, turn right and follow the (Before you start take a minute viewpoint at the end (point 8) - just point 4, and retrace your steps back path through a kissing gate back to look upwards at the fascinating breathing in the incredible views and to Chipping Campden for a well- roof structure of the 1627 building). freshest of winds is unforgettable into the fields. earned rest. Standing on the stone and facing enough! 6 the road, turn right past the war Follow the wide grass track Congratulations, you have ahead keeping the fence to the memorial and follow the pavement. 4 For the full route, leave the just started the Cotswold wood on your right. Keep following Cotswold Way to follow the Way this track as it bends to the right 2 Turn right just after the church, bridleway to the right. Follow and along the side of the hill (there past the first of many oak signposts the fenceline to a gate on your along the Cotswold Way, and on right and go through into a small may be muddy sections here). up Hoo Lane. This becomes an windswept woodland. Take the left

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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 Cotswolds has to Way offer.

Distance: N 4 miles or 6.5km Cotswold Way 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 Chipping Campden.1, 2 &H3 between Stratford on Avon and Chipping Campden; Rural 4 5 Cresswells from Evesham. (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 pubs 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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3. Stanton, Snowshill and the Edge

This beauty of a walk leads 9/17 you between two of the most Manor Farm 5 picturesque villages in the Chipping Campden ay Buckland Cotswolds; over hilltops, down N W Stanton ld Wood valleys and through shaded Cheltenham Road o w Snowhill Road s woodlands. Whilst slightly t o more challenging than others C in the series, your efforts will be rewarded by invitingly warm pubs and some of Laverton Hill the most splendid views Bath Barn in the country.

Distance: Stanton 6 miles or 9.7km (Shorter route Littleworth 6 Wood 4 2½ miles or 4km) Piper’s Grove 1 Farm Duration: 3

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d Difficulty: l o w Moderate, some steep sections and s t stiles o C Public transport: 0 Miles 0.5 Shenberrow Oat Hill 2 No. 606 bus from Cheltenham and Buildings a short walk (See the ‘Explore the 0 Kms 0.5 Cotswolds’ public transport guide or visit www.traveline.info and through two gates. After turning right along the road and the kissing gate on your left and Start/Finish: you pass the small pond on your left at the T junction. Take another follow the footpath down across Grid reference SP 071/342 right, watch your footing and left turn and continue down a field to the track at the bottom. (OS Explorer sheet OL45) climb steeply up the track beneath into Snowshill. Pass through the Turn left to rejoin the Cotswold Postcode WR12 7NE tall trees until you reach the delightful village between the pub Way and continue up the trail for waymarker posts at the top. and the church, past the carpark. about a mile (1.6km), past a house Refreshments: and old quarries on your left, until Pub at Stanton. Further pub at 1 Mile 2 Continue on through the 4 Turn left at the entrance to you reach the waymarker post at Snowshill and café at Snowshill kissing gate to the left of the house, Snowshill Manor and go through a the top next to where you left the Manor and garden. (National Trust and follow the track across the field kissing gate immediately0 on your Cotswold0.5 Way nearly four1 Mile miles members free). for half a mile (0.8km) until you right then down through the field earlier (6.5km). Parking reach a cattle grid at the end. past a line of trees. Head through 0 0.5 1 Km Parish Council car park next to the the next field and pass through the 6 Turn right along the track cricket ground on main road out of 3 At this point you leave the kissing gate at the far side, turning down towards a field gate, and village. Parking also available at the Cotswold Way for a while (For left to follow the fenceline downhill. continue downhill along the steep- Mount Inn for customers only. the shorter route, skip forward to Go through the gate at the bottom sided path. Be careful to watch 6 Please do not park in village point and turn left to take the and veer left up through the woods, your footing along this track, but centre. track downhill back towards Stanton, turning right just before the next also not to miss the awe-inspiring ignoring the Cotswold Way signpost). gate. Continue up along the edge of views over Stanton and across the Turn right along the road to the woods with the fence on your Severn Vale into Wales that open 1 Start at the Cotswold Way Snowshill and after some 50 metres left, watching for muddy patches up below you – once tasted, this signpost towards the top of the head down the wide path sharp after wet weather, and go through slice of Cotswolds will never be village, just down from the Mount left, opposite new gates. Keep right the gate at the top. Walk steeply forgotten. Passing through the last Inn. Look for the old lamppost on to enter Littleworth Wood, and left up the narrow field towards gate at the bottom of the track, the triangle of grass and follow the some 50 metres further down the line of trees until you reach an you emerge next to the Mount Inn. Cotswold way up the road to the turn right. Follow this path, keeping old iron kissing gate. Turn right and Continue down to the left of the right, past the thatched cottage. Just straight through this peaceful little follow the farm track for half a mile pub towards the start point, or before the water station, which may woodland, owned and managed by (0.8km) until you reach a field gate take the chance to rest tired feet at be hidden by trees in the summer, the National Trust, until you reach between the two woodlands. a warm and welcoming Cotswold turn right at the marker post as the the gate at the end. Continue down inn – the perfect end to a perfect Cotswold Way leaves the track to across the next field towards the 5 After pausing for a few minutes walk. follow a footpath down to the right kissing gate at the far left corner, to catch your breath, go through

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