Cotswold Walk Walk Twelve From Wold to Water

This is number 12 in a series of walks from the Conservation Board 1 Stow-on-the-Wold B4 0 designed to allow people to make their 68 way to the start point using public B4450 transport. Maugersbury Manor Maugersbury A walk from the historic town of Stow- on-the-Wold via the picturesque villages of Icomb and Wyck Rissington, through Oxleaze Salmonsbury Water meadows to Bourton- Farm on-the-Water

0 0.5 1Kilometres ry 0 0.25 0.5 Miles u rsb ge au ill M H All the maps in this publication are reproduced with the permission of Botany Bay Wood Her Majesty’s Stationery Office 2 Distance: 6miles/ 10km © Crown Copyright, NC/00/458 A424 Time: Allow 2-3 hrs Icomb Buses: Take Pulhams 801 from Bourton Hill Kennel Church rooms to Stow Police Coppice Hill 3 Icomb Farm Icomb Station. The Place Grove OS Ref: SP 191258 Explorer sheet OL45

ay 1 From Stow centre walk down Park an Rd Fosse W 4 Street and take the fenced track to the right Rom Wyck Rissington Bourton-on- of the car park towards Maugersbury the-Water 5 xfordshireay Manor. Walk through the ancient village, O W cross the junction and follow road round to the left passing a lovely semicircular house on the left. At the next junction turn right and follow the road down the hill past Oxleaze Farm and up, to climb 3 Cross the road and take the track up to 5 The path crosses the Maugersbury Hill where on a good Hill Farm. Past the farmhouse through the and then the River Eye (tributaries day you can enjoy great views. copse to skirt the field and meet the A424 of the Windrush). These water meadows Stow to Burford road. Cross carefully are a unique habitat for rare flowers, insects 2 Join the surfaced road and follow this following the path up the other side and other wildlife and are protected down the hill bearing left at the junction through trees (blue way mark signs). Bear as a nature reserve by the and then right by the house on the island right off the track, skirting the wood down Wildlife Trust. The path leads you out into to enter the charming village of Icomb to Wyck Rissington. Station Road and so to Bourton, High Street. with the 12th century church, St Mary’s. Bear right and in 100 metres take the path 4 As the village opens out before you, in front of you up through fields to the trees turn right at the road and in a few metres at the top of the hill which leads on to go through the gate opposite the post office the road. box to follow the Way towards Bourton.

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