DL Compton Verney

Charlecote Park Compton Verney Bus & Boots Walk Compton Verney to Charlecote Park

Charlecote Park is a grand 16th Century Tudor house with Compton Verney is an award-winning art gallery, set in the imposing chimneys and mellow red brickwork. Sir heart of rural Warwickshire. The gallery is housed in an 18th Thomas Lucy began the building of the present house in century Grade I listed mansion re-modelled by Robert Adam. 1551, although the estate has been in the Lucy family The gallery is surrounded by 120 acres of Capability Brown since 1247. Completed in 1558. Charlecote was the rst landscaped parkland. great Elizabethan manor house to be built in Inside you will nd six collections of nationally and Warwickshire. Walking down the lengthy main drive, internationally signi cant art from around the world, visitors will rst notice the imposing Gatehouse, the only including Naples, Northern Europe and China. There is feature of the original Elizabethan buildings to remain also the UKs largest collection of British Folk Art. Running intact. Today, the house is presented as it was was in alongside is a changing programme of exhibitions, special Victorian times. The balustraded garden opens onto a nd events, adult workshops, family activities, talks and tours. deer park landscaped in the style of Capability Brown. The gallery café serves a delicious range of hot and cold food There is a programme of special events, tours and talks throughout the day, so drop in for morning coee, afternoon throughout the year. The Orangery Restaurant serves an tea or lunch. excellent range of hot and cold food. Special oer - Half price admission to those arriving by Half price admission for those arriving by bicycle, on foot, public transport - please present your travel ticket at the or by public transport. ticket desk. For information please call us 01789 470277 For information please call 01926 645500 or visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk or visit www.comptonverney.org.uk

Chedham’s Yard A side turning o Church Walk in Wellesbourne leads to Chedham’s Yard. The 19th Century blacksmiths and wheelwrights that won BBC Restoration in 2006. Work is ongoing to restore the yard and open it to public viewing in 2010. Compton Verney to Charlecote Park 1. Start by the bus stop at Compton Verney, walk diagonally up the eld 5. After 300 metres turn right, cross the footbridge and turn immediately left (see waymarker) and into the wood. Go through the wood to the top of the into the eld. Follow the hedge on your right to the Watermill. eld above Combrook. 6. Pass the barns on your right, go through the eld gate on your left, turn 2. Walk down the eld, through the gate and turn left into the village. Turn right right, and follow the eld boundary to the footbridge. Cross the corner of at the church and follow the road out of the village. At the Fosseway (busy the next eld to a stile and walk the length of the next eld into road, take care!) turn left and follow the road. After 50 metres turn right onto Wellesbourne. the bridleway. 7. Turn right into Lowes Lane and then left into Chapel Street. 3. At the bottom of the hill where the track bears left, the footpath goes straight 8. Cross the road to the Stags Head, down Church Walk and continue on to a ahead into the wood. After the wood and bear left across the middle of the footbridge. Do not cross the bridge, instead, turn left and after about 15 next eld and follow the track to Walton Hall. metres turn right o the tarmac path and follow the river for 1 mile. 4. At the end of the track turn left, passing the Hall on your left. At the road 9. At the B4088 turn right to the bus stop and Charlecote Park. turn right to Walton. Go through Walton.

Charlecote Park to Compton Verney Start with your back to the main gates, turn right and hedge on your left. At the track turn right and cross the follow the road. bridge. Turn left onto the road. In Walton bear right. 100 meters after the bridgeturn left onto the footpath After ¼ mile turn left to Walton Hall. Pass the Hall on along the river bank. your right and where the road turns sharp left.

Turn right through the gate. Follow the track for Charlecote Park to In 1 mile you reach a small park, turn left towards the footbridge (do not cross it) then right into Wellesbourne. 400 metres. Compton Verney At the Stags Head cross the road into Chapel Street, after Where it forks, go through the gate diagonally across the 200 meters turn right into Lowes Lane and in 25 meters eld. Go right through the wood. Turn left onto the track This lea et describes a walk turn left onto the footpath. up the hill. between Charlecote Park After 75 meters go through the wooden kissing gate and At the Fosseway (busy road, take care!) turn left and after and Compton Verney. It can follow the path across the eld to the far corner. Climb the 50 metres turn right to Combrook. At the church, turn be walked in either direction stile and cross the corner of the eld to the footbridge. left into School Lane. following the instructions Cross the bridge and follow the hedge on your left around After 150 metres turn right into the eld. Cross the eld to and using the map. the corner of the eld to the farm gate. the far corner and on into the wood. Go through the wood. You are now at the Watermill. From the Watermill follow Bear right across the middle of the next eld, to the bus Miles 7 miles (one way) the path down the edge of several elds keeping the stop and Compton Verney. Time Allow 3 to 4 hours Calories 2000 Public Transport Di culty Moderate

It is strongly recommended that this walk commences from Compton Verney due to limited bus service -not Sundays.

Charlecote Park has a regular service seven days a week.