Miles Without Stiles Cornwell and Chastleton

This fascinating walk takes in the estate village of Cornwell (designed by Clough Williams Ellis of Port Meirion fame), the Iron Age Chastleton Barrow and the Jacobean Chastleton House

Chastleton Map based upon OS mapping, Distance: 6-8 kilometres/ © Crown Copyright licence no: 100040971 4-5 miles (3 hours) with ups and downs of 115m or 377ft Quarry 6 (dis) Start: Hill Farm Cattle Start Minor road signed Rollrights, Cattle Grid Grid A44 on the Chipping Norton side 1 5 A436 of the A44/A436 junction. Chastleton Quarry Hill SP 270/289 (dis) Barrow Adlestrop House Hollis Hill Hill Rushy Farm Route: Bottom Cross the A44 and walk along the grass verge towards Chastleton 4 Barrow Chipping Norton for a short distance turning onto the track 2 Park signed “unsuitable for motor Farm vehicles” . 1 Cornwell A436 Holt Continue downhill, through Hollis Hill Farm. 3 Cornwell Cornwell 0 km 0.5 1 Manor At Park Farm 2 take the 0 miles 0.25 0.5 footpath along the farm drive and go through the gate on the This walk last checked 10/2018 left into the field. Turn half right and go downhill towards a return by the same route). single-bank circular hill fort. Trust). It is one of England’s stream with a stone slab for a Between the wars, an American Cross it diagonally to another finest and most complete bridge. Cross and continue uphill owner had Cornwell redeveloped gate and two more gates to a Jacobean houses, with the with the wood on your right and as a model village - the architect driveway. Cross to a narrow atmosphere of almost four go through the gate ahead. The was Clough Williams Ellis, of gate. The path continues across hundred years of continuous track you are now goes past the Port Meirion fame. The school parkland, parallel with a wooded occupation by one family. track to Cornwell church on your was refurbished as a village hall road, through another gate onto left to emerge on a bend in a and the shop next door won an unfenced road. 5 Otherwise at 5 take the single track road. prizes as “the prettiest Co-op unfenced road from the cattle shop in England”! At this point there is an option grid along Chastleton Hill, to the On reaching the road 3 there to see Chastleton by leaving the A44. 5 Turn right back to the is a short, optional diversion to At 3 take the single-track unfenced road via a cattlegrid to start and/or the Cross Hands Inn. glimpse the estate village of lane uphill, i.e. right. Cross the a bend on a minor road. Turn Cornwell. (Turning left downhill A436 to a bridleway. 4 At the right to the church (mainly 13th- and up to a T-junction, left again top of the field a gate leads you 15th century), and then to a view of the Manor House; into Chastleton Barrow. Chastleton House (National Probably Iron Age, it is a typical

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