SEVEN WONDERS OF THE chosen by popular vote

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After a valley walk you’ll climb to discover a prehistoric mystery on the Jurassic ridgeway. Return through the hidden hamlet of .

Distance: 8.3km/5 1/4 miles corner, then head up the hill 0 km 0.5 with ups and downs of with the hedge on your left King Stone Farm A3400 Butlers Hill 140m/460ft including one (there may be horses) and Farm short steep climb. through two more gates. 0 miles ¼ Just below Brighthill farm Time: 3 hours N King 1 cut diagonally R to a wide Stone 7 Start: Salford village gate and stile on the far R 5 (SP290282) off the A44 corner of the buildings. 4 King’s Whispering Brighthill two miles W of Chipping Men Knights Farm Rollright Stones 6 1 Norton. To reach the start Take the track along the R 4 drive past the Black Horse side of the house and barns pub and the village hall up a short way into a young Cooks Lane for 300m to a wood where you turn L (on Baker’s Hill 8 5 Little junction on a grassy area the d’Arcy Dalton Way) Rollright with swings and benches. along an avenue between

Please park here with the trees. Leaving the wood Fish Pond over a stile you’ll see the Manor 3 consideration. Farm Refreshments: The Black Rollright Stones on your Choicehill Horse, Salford; Wyatt’s right. 6 Turn R to reach Farm farm shop and tea room the first small group of Little (1 mile NE). Whispering Knights. Then Meadows

d’Arcy Dalton Way y take the all-weather path Hirons Hill a w Farm 2 il a round the field to a big R d e Route: Fishing tl : the King’s Men. n Lake a Just past the swings, where m is 9 D Cooks Lane meets Rose But there’s more to come. 1 Junction of tracks Lane, take the level lane Cross the road into the ahead past signs for Trout field where the King Stone Rectory Lakes and Rectory Farm with stands alone. Alone that is Farm a line of tall trees on the left. until a wicked witch recently Larches The tarmac soon becomes a arrived. This is a good picnic Farm farm track along the valley. spot, with wonderful views. Start Where the track turns right 7 A44 Salford 1 go straight on following Pub the blue bridleway sign with Now retrace your steps back 1 a hedge on your R. to the Whispering Knights and the d’Arcy Dalton Way At the next gate turn R 6 where you turn R across Map based upon OS mapping, alongside the hedge for two fields, dropping to cross © Crown Copyright licence no: 100040971 120m, then turn L 2 across a lane and a view of the farmland and through a the field on a marked path gentrified hamlet of Little string of small woods. The to a ditch on the other side. Rollright. 8 first ends at a tiny stream Here wiggle L and R and which you cross on an easy enter another wood. Leave carry on along the valley Walk down between the stile. it over a stile and press on with the hedge on your L, hedges to cross a sandy along the left edge of a field crossing a shallow stream drive, and the signs will Now walk 120m up the next to yet another copse with in- and past a young plantation take you round houses and field to a wide gateway in and-out stiles. Walk across a farm buildings, then up to a the hedge on you R. 9 paddockMap based upon to OSthe mapping, last stile and to cross a lane. 3 © Crown Copyright licence no: 100040971 fine viewpoint at two metal Turn R and go through and a track where you bear L and Take the marked path across gates. Head straight on immediately turn L with R onto the lane where you the field to a gate in the back to Salford over rolling the hedge now on your L to started. Cotswolds Conservation Board www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk Meet the witch on the next page.  SEVEN WONDERS OF THE COTSWOLDS chosen by popular vote  The Magic of the Rollright Stones

                                                              

                      

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