The Heartstone Inns Cotswold Challenge: Logistics Bathurst Arms to Butchers Arms Leer
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Sheepscombe valley from THE BATHURST ARMS Workman’s Wood North Cerney, Gloucestershire GL7 7BZ tel 01285 832150 website www.bathurstarms.co.uk STAFF USE ONLY Number in party: Cotswold Challenge email [email protected] Time & date: bar open a one-day linear or two-day circular walk between Mon–Sun all day Staff signature: two superb Gloucestershire inns food served Mon–Fri 12 noon–2.30pm, 6pm–9pm Sat 12 noon–9pm Photo © Mike Baldwin (cc-by-sa/2.0) Sun (summer) 12 noon–8pm Sun (winter) 12 noon–3pm, 6pm–8pm St Bartholomew’s Church, Winstone Come and walk some glorious Cotswold North Cerney countryside with the added bonus of a nr Cirencester cosy and welcoming pub with a great selection of drinks and food at the start and finish, whichever end you begin! Make a weekend This leaflet describes two delightful of it – stay over STAFF USE ONLY and walk back alternative routes between the two Number in party: the next day! pubs, so you can choose a one-day Time & date: adventure with the help of a car or taxi Staff signature: for the return journey, or stay overnight mapped and described in both at the Bathurst Arms and walk a directions different way back the following day to THE BUTCHERS ARMS Sheepscombe, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL6 7RH make a great weekend of it. tel 01452 812113 Sheepscombe website www.butchers-arms.co.uk © David Dunford 2018 except where otherwise acknowledged. All rights reserved. www.walksfromthedoor.co.uk Duntisbourne Abbots nr Painswick Each successful walker who can prove email [email protected] that they have completed the Challenge bar open The water lane at Duntisbourne Leer in either direction can enjoy a Mon–Fri (Sept–June) 11.30am–3pm, 6.30pm–11pm complimentary glass of wine or pint of Mon–Fri (July/August) 11.30am–11pm Sat 11.30am–11pm beer on arrival at the destination pub. Sun 12 noon–10.30pm Two-day walkers can claim £10 off an food served Mon–Fri 12 noon–2.30pm, 6.30pm–9.30pm Claim a overnight stay at the Bathurst Arms. free drink if you Sat 12 noon–9.30pm complete the Have a great walk on us! Sun 12 noon–8pm (Jan/Feb 12–6pm) challenge! Text, mapping, photography and design The Heartstone Inns Cotswold Challenge: Logistics Bathurst Arms to Butchers Arms Leer. 30 Keep on to a triangle at the top of the village, where you turn garden alongside the wall of a silage pit to reach a track at the rear of Butchers Arms to Bathurst Arms church, and follow the walled grassy track out into open fields. 33 Walk right and descend towards the stream. 31 Take a left-hand turn the property. 63 Turn left through a metal gate into a concrete yard, diagonally across the field aiming for a gap in the far hedge The Bathurst Arms in North Cerney and the Butchers Arms in via Bagendon and the Duntisbournes: 12¼ miles signposted “UNSUITABLE FOR MOTOR VEHICLES”. 32 Follow this lane then right along a hedgerow climbing the hillside. 64 Follow this field, via Winstone and Rendcomb: 11¾ miles approximately coinciding with the point where the overhead cables Sheepscombe are approximately 15 miles apart by road. This leaflet uphill, then bear right to descend to a long ford; follow the footpath past footpaths to right and left, until you reach a gate into a lane. cross. 34 Continue in a similar direction towards the trees surrounding 1 From the front door of the Bathurst Arms, cross the River Churn to 1 From the front door of the pub, turn left and follow the no-through describes two walking routes, of 12¼ and 11¾ miles respectively and to the left of the stream. 33 Beyond the ford, follow the lane ahead Rectory Farm. 35 After a stile, aim to the left of the trees (negotiating the main road. 2 Cross quickly but carefully and follow the lane 65 Take a few steps to the left, then turn right over a stile with a road signposted to Sheepscombe Far End. 2 After ½ mile, continue with no overlap, between the two pubs (allow 6 or 7 hours each way). to the phone box and spring at the foot of the village green in temporary fencing if necessary) and cross the farm drive above the opposite, signposted to Bagendon. 3 Follow the road around the footpath sign. 66 Cross an area of grassland (planted with young trees) between the gateposts into Workman’s Wood. 3 When the track forks, If you only have one day, you can follow either route as a linear walk Duntisbourne Abbots. 34 Follow the road and path up the slope entrance. 36 Cross the stile opposite and bear half-left to a gateway church and then round to the right, uphill. 4 Bear left at the entrance to a stile into another road, opposite the car park for the Butterfly take the lower (right-hand) branch. 4 Bear right when the other track from one pub to the other, but we recommend a glorious two-day opposite, then turn left past a postbox. 35 Enter the churchyard via in the wall. 37 The path continues in the same direction (temporary to Cerney House, continuing along the public road. 5 After a further Conservation reserve of Rough Bank. 67 Go through the metal gate to rejoins from the left, then swing right with views down the valley. circular walk, starting from the Butchers Arms and treating yourself the lychgate and exit by the gate to the left of the church tower. fencing permitting) to a stone slab stile into a road. 38 Cross the road 600 yards, cross a staggered junction and follow the road opposite the left of the car park entrance and walk down the track across the 5 Bear left to a building and a pond beyond. 6 Continue along the main to a luxurious overnight stay with dinner and breakfast at the Bathurst 36 Turn right to the triangular road junction and turn left (signposted rushy field. 68 At the bottom of the field, don’t go through the wooden and go over the stile opposite. 39 Join and follow a tractor track, until it descends towards Bagendon village. 6 At the war memorial, to Duntisbourne Leer and Daglingworth). 37 When the road bends left track to the left of the pond. 7 Beyond a shelter (on your left) continue bending left then right so you end up walking parallel to the A417. Arms, before walking back to Sheepscombe via the glorious Duntis- gate into the reserve, but drop down left through a metal field-gate bear left downhill and past Bagendon church. 7 Turn right at the phone at another triangle, take the road on the right, again signposted up the valley, ignoring any turnings and passing a small quarry face on 40 In the corner of the last field, go through a gate and descend to a bourne valley the following day. into a superb sunken way through the trees. 69 Follow the path down box beyond the church and, ignoring a no-through road off to the left, “UNSUITABLE FOR MOTOR VEHICLES”. 38 At the end of the triangle, your left. 8 Eventually, leave the wood through a gate and follow a public road. 41 Turn left (ignoring the slip road onto the A417) and If you are only able to walk one way, please note that there is no public the bottom of the valley for a while, then bear left up an gently follow the narrow lane past the old school on the right. 8 The lane follow the unmade track to the left of a house. 39 Follow this track for track across the field ahead. 9 Bear right through the gate between pass under the twin bridges leading below the dual carriageway. transport available between the two pubs, so you will need to arrange ascending track through the trees. 70 Join a wider track at the top of passes below a wood (ignore footpaths to the left) and then descends half a mile until you meet a road. 40 Cross straight over and follow a two houses. 10 Turn right down the road, then at Foston’s Ash cross 42 Follow the road round to the right and carry straight on along a a lift or taxi-ride before or after your walk. the hill and follow it ahead until it curves left and an isolated house to the cottages of Upper End. 9 When the road bends sharp right in similar track opposite, and continue along the left-hand of a field. over and walk to the right of the pub, passing the swings to reach the short no-through road beyond the southbound slip road. 43 At the If you need to leave a car at either end, please check with the pub staff the valley bottom, go through a gate on the left and turn right along 41 Go through a gateway into woodland and follow the track as it comes into view. 71 Turn right onto a steeply descending permitted end of the car park. 11 Follow the footpath beyond, along a field edge. end of the metalled road, turn left and follow a hedged green lane in advance. Car parking is especially limited at the Butchers Arms, but the bottom of the field. 10 The path leads pleasantly along the bottom descends to the left; ignore a track joining from the right. 42 Keep right path, which shortly meets a contouring footpath at a T-junction.