Walks With Stiles The Magic of the Rollright Stones
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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 Little Rollright.
Distance: 8.3km/5 1/4 miles This walk last checked 11/2018 your left. Look for a gate 0 km 0.5 with ups and downs of King Stone 140m/460ft including one on your left with a small Farm A3400 Butlers Hill spinney and pond next to Farm short steep climb. 0 miles ¼ it. Go through the gate Time: 3 hours keeping to the left of the N King 1 Stone 7 Start: Salford village field and making towards 5 a finger post. NB The path Brighthill (SP290282) off the A44 Whispering Farm here has been re-routed. King’s Knights two miles W of Chipping Men 4 Rollright Stones 6 1 Norton. To reach the start Go as directed diagonally in drive past the Salford Inn front of the house towards pub and the village hall up a gate at the far side of the Cooks Lane for 300m to a farm buildings. 4 Baker’s Hill 8 Little junction on a grassy area Take the wide track to go Rollright with swings and benches. past the farm buildings and Please park here with beyond where you reach Fish Pond consideration. Manor a plantation on your left. Farm 3 Refreshments: Salford Look out for a waymark Choicehill Farm Inn, Salford; Wyatt’s farm sign pointing left along an shop and tea room 1 mile Little avenue in the woodland. Meadows (1.6km) NE. This is the D’Arcy Dalton 1 d’Arcy Dalton Way y Hirons Hill a w Way. 5 At the far end Farm 2 il a Route: R d cross a stile and you can e Fishing tl Just past the swings, where n Lake a see the Rollright Stones on m Cooks Lane meets Rose is your right. 6 Turn right to 9 D Junction of tracks Lane, take the track straight reach the first small group ahead with Rectory Farm on of Whispering Knights. Then your left. Continue straight Rectory take the all-weather path Farm on with the hedge on your round the field to reach the right and ignore signs Larches big stone circle: the King’s Farm turning off right to the Trout Men. Lakes. Start A44 Cross the road into the field Salford 1 Where the track ends where the King’s Stone Pub there is a gate into a field, stands alone. This is a good 1 turn right to walk for 120m picnic stop, with wonderful with the hedge on your Map based upon OS mapping, views. 7 © Crown Copyright licence no: 100040971 right. 2 Turn left to follow hedge on your left to enter a worn track straight across Now retrace your steps back gates, another good view another wood. Leave this the field to a ditch on the to the Whispering Knights point. Head straight on back wood over a stile and go other side. Here wiggle L and the D’Arcy Dalton Way to Salford over farmland along the left edge of the and R and carry on along 6 where you turn right and though a string of small field to yet another copse the valley with the hedge on across two fields, dropping woods. The first ends at a with in-and-out stiles. Walk your left, crossing a stream, to cross the same lane as tiny stream which you cross across a paddock to the last as far as the road. crossed previously. 8 a stile. 3 stile near some trees. Once Cross the road and take the Cross the drive at the Now walk 120m along the over this you go through a next field to a wide gateway Map based upon OS mapping, marked path across the field bottom and follow the few© Crown trees Copyright to reach licence no: a 100040971track. to a gate in the corner. Once signs which takes you uphill in the hedge on your R. 9 Turn left and after a few through the gate continue between hedges. At the Turn R to go through this metres turn R to join the lane uphill with the hedge on top you reach two metal and immediate left with the where you started. Cotswolds Conservation Board www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk Stones that have stood 5,000 years: next page Walks With Stiles The Magic of the Rollright Stones
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