Cotswold Way Circular Walks

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 (Marchants) from Broadway. ing 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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