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Walk Walk Six Kingham to Chipping Norton Cotswold Walk Walk Six Kingham to Chipping Norton Chastleton House A44 4 Peasewell Chastleton Wood Hill Adlestrop Hill Salford Chastleton Barrow Coomb fort Cross (remains) 6 Wood A361 Cornwell Salford B4026 Glebe Mill Holt Farm The A44 0 0.5 1Kilometres Pheasantry A436 5 Cornwell 0 0.25 0.5 Miles 3 Manor Adlestrop Cornwell Chipping Norton Chipping All the maps in this publication are House Common Mill Norton reproduced with the permission of Adlestrop Disman ay B4026 tled Railw Her Majesty’s Stationery Office Adlestrop 2 © Crown Copyright, NC/00/458 Park Daylesford Swaleford Baywell House Bridge Wood Quarry (disused) The Kingham Hill Dell School Slade Farm 1 Walk north back out of the village for The National Trust sign. Follow the one mile (Oxfordshire cycle way). Take the avenue ahead and turn right at the road left path before Kingham Hill School and to Chastleton House. Follow the signs up the follow the hedge across a small valley to the car park and on onto the road. with views of the Evenlode valley. Continue y to the left of the woods and turn right at 4 Turn right and walk 150 metres to a a w il Kingham a the tarmac track to the stables and riding bend. Cross the Cattle grid, turn sharp R d 1 e tl school of Daylesford House, where the first right, bear left across the field, keeping an m is D governor general of British India, Warren old quarries on the right. Continue ahead Hastings once lived. through gates to the wooded ramparts of Chastleton Camp - an Iron Age fort. Kingham 2 For a short walk: turn right for 400 Continue through the ramparts down Station metres then left to the road. Continue the track and lane to Cornwell. A walk from Kingham to Oxfordshire’s ahead through Top Farm and down left highest town, Chipping Norton- including to Cornwell (turn right to view the Manor 5 At the top of the hamlet turn left Adlestrop, Chastleton and Cornwell. House). Go down past the phone box and then right following signs to the church. up to rejoin the walk at route point five. Continue to the right around the church to This is number six in a series of walks from a gate down to the stream. Cross the track the Cotswolds Conservation Board designed For the long walk- turn left past stables and and turn through Glebe Farm. Follow the to allow people to make their way to the paddocks. After the bridge, the fences and bridle way to Salford Church ahead. Go start point using public transport. path have recently been changed so follow right then left at the main road, then right the waymarked route along the track until at the church gates and down past the pub. Distance: 15km/9 miles you reach the tarmac drive. Follow this drive Keep right at the phone box. and a shorter route: 6 miles around the edge of the paddock through Time: allow 5 hrs for long route the trees to the road. Turn left at the road 6 At Village Farm a waymarked path 3 hrs for short route and after 50 metres turn right through the leads up through field to the top where Buses: take X8 from Chipping Norton, woods, then left down to visit Adlestrop. there is a view of Bliss Mill down to the West Street or Kingham Station right. Descend across access roads, past and ask for Kingham Village. 3 Take the path by the village hall. At the the cemetery and through the common Trains: Rail Enquiries 08457 484950 first gate bear left up the valley to a stile in to New Street and up to the town centre. OS Ref: SP258237, Explorer Sheet OL45 the top corner, then across arable land to For more public transport information pick up a copy of Explore the Cotswolds by Public Transport and accompanying timetable booklets, available at Tourist Information Centres and from www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk. Alternatively contact the Cotswolds Conservation Board on 01451 862000.
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