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Mickleton and Hidcote Manor Garden

Mickleton

Difficulty - Medium

Exploring two early 20th-century gardens of international repute

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Around Dumbleton Hill

Dumbleton Hill

Difficulty - Hard

Several centuries of church-building can be seen around Dumbleton Hill.

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Chipping Campden and Dover's Hill

Chipping Campden

Difficulty - Easy

Walk out from the Cotswolds' most beautiful wool town to Dover's Hill, the spectacular site of centuries-old Whitsuntide festivities.

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Arts and Crafts in the Campdens

The Campdens

Difficulty - Easy

A walk between Chipping and Broad Campden follows the rise and fall of the Guild of Handicraft

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Stanton, Laverton and Buckland

Stanton

Difficulty - Easy

A walk through three radiant Cotswold villages, two of which have strong connections with Methodism

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Stanton and Stanway from Snowshill

Snowshill

Difficulty - Medium

Discovering three of Gloucestershire's finest villages, saved from decline and decay

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Blockley and Batsford Arboretum

Blockley

Difficulty - Easy

The exotic legacy of a 19th-century diplomat adorns this part of the Cotswold escarpment

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Sezincote House and Bourton-on-the-Hill

Sezincote

Difficulty - Medium

Discovering the influences of India through the Cotswold home of Sir Charles Cockerell

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Todenham and the lost Ditchfords

The Ditchfords

Difficulty - Easy

A walk among the ghosts of former medieval agricultural communities, abandoned since the 15th century.

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Winchcombe and Sudeley Castle

Winchcombe

Difficulty - Easy

A rewarding walk above a thriving Cotswold market town and the burial place of Henry's sixth queen – Catherine Parr.

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Winchcombe to Belas Knap Long Barrow

Winchcombe

Difficulty - Medium

A walk from Winchcombe to discover the secrets of one of the best preserved neolithic barrows in the country.

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Thomas Cromwell and Hailes Abbey

Hailes Abbey

Difficulty - Easy

How an important abbey was destroyed by a King's Commissioner

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Around Cutsdean and Ford

Cutsdean

Difficulty - Medium

The origins of the Cotswolds, once the focus of England's most valued export

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Exploring Adlestrop and Daylesford

Adlestrop

Difficulty - Easy

Embracing the legacies of Warren Hastings and the poet Edward Thomas.

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Adlestrop to Chastleton House

Chastleton

Difficulty - Medium

From a timeless village to an age-old house.

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Prestbury and Southam

Prestbury

Difficulty - Easy

A gentle ramble around this unassuming old village which claims to be one of Britain's most haunted.

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Along the Windrush from Guiting Power

Guiting Power

Difficulty - Easy

A gentle ramble in quintessential Gloucestershire

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Lakes and rivers at Bourton-on-the-Water

Bourton-On-The-Water

Difficulty - Easy

On the wilder side of Bourton-on-the-Water to see its natural regeneration.

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Painswick - The Queen of the Cotswolds

Painswick

Difficulty - Hard

From the Queen of the Cotswolds through the Washpool Valley.

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Brimpsfield, Syde and Caudle Green

Brimpsfield

Difficulty - Easy

A walk through a vanished castle and secluded valleys.

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A stroll around Northleach

Northleach

Difficulty - Easy

A modest Cotswold market town is home to a pair of diverse attractions.

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Sherborne and the Sherborne Estate

Sherborne

Difficulty - Easy

A walk from a picturesque village through the woods and parkland of an 18th-century estate once owned by wealthy Winchcombe Abbey.

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The limestone buildings of the Windrush Valley

Windrush

Difficulty - Medium

Cotswold stone – the building blocks of the region's beauty

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The Slad Valley and Cider with Rosie

Slad Valley

Difficulty - Easy

A stroll through the countryside around Slad, backcloth to Laurie Lee's most popular novel.

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Uley and its magnificent hill-fort

Uley

Difficulty - Easy

The vast bulk of the ancient fort of Uley Bury forms the centerpiece for this walk along the Cotswold escarpment.

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Chalford and the Stroud Valley

Chalford

Difficulty - Medium

Discover the impact of the Industrial Revolution in the Cotswold valleys.

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The Hamlets around Bisley Village

Bisley

Difficulty - Easy

From beautiful Bisley, this ramble follows undulating field paths taking in small villages and hamlets along the way.

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The Thames and Severn Canal at Sapperton

Sapperton

Difficulty - Easy

Sapperton, both the focus of a major engineering project and a cradle for cultural change.

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Bibury, Arlington and Ablington

Bibury

Difficulty - Medium

The outer charm of a weavers' village conceals miserable working conditions.

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Riverside in the Eastleaches

The Eastleaches

Difficulty - Easy

Two churches, just a stone's throw apart across a narrow stream.

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South Cerney and the Cotswold Water Park

South Cerney

Difficulty - Easy

Through an evolving landscape in the southern Cotswolds.

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From Buscot to Kelmscott and back

Buscot

Difficulty - Easy

On the Thames Path to the home of William Morris.

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Lechlade and the Thames

Lechlade

Difficulty - Easy

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From Bourton-on-the-Hill to Sezincote

Sezincote

Difficulty - Easy

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Fairford and the River Coln

Fairford

Difficulty - Easy

Take this easy route from one of Gloucestershire’s medieval wool towns to return by the river’s edge.

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From Chipping Campden to Broad Campden

Chipping Campden

Difficulty - Easy

An easy walk between neighbouring villages, with a museum celebrating the skill and talent of artists and designers.

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Around Condicote

Condicote

Difficulty - Easy

Following the course of Ryknild Street across the high wold

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Around Hazleton and Salperton Park

Hazleton

Difficulty - Easy

An airy rural walk from a quiet village that owes its existence to medieval trading routes.

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Around Chedworth Roman Villa

Chedworth

Difficulty - Easy

Finding out how wealthy Romanised Britons lived in the Cotswolds.

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Brockhampton, Whittingham and Sevenhampton

Brockhampton

Difficulty - Medium

What happened when the Black Death came to Gloucestershire

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A circuit of Tewkesbury

Tewkesbury

Difficulty - Easy

Tracing the military movements that culminated in the Battle of Tewkesbury.

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Around Tetbury

Tetbury

Difficulty - Easy

This handsome Cotswold town has kept its appeal without allowing conservation to leach it out of its character.

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On the Severn Way at Deerhurst

Deerhurst

Difficulty - Easy

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Severnside at Ashleworth and Hasfield

Ashleworth

Difficulty - Medium

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Arlingham and the Severn Bore

Arlingham

Difficulty - Medium

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From Kempley Green to Dymock

Dymock

Difficulty - Hard

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On Offa's Dyke at Brockweir

Brockweir

Difficulty - Medium

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Along the River Severn at Gloucester

Gloucester

Difficulty - Easy

Combine a fascinating city tour and heritage trail with a rural walk along the banks of the River Severn.

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Bourton-on-the-Water

Bourton-On-The-Water

Difficulty - Easy

A very pleasant undemanding walk from Bourton-on-the-Water to one of the region’s most picturesque villages, bisected by one of its prettiest rivers