"The Quintessential English Landscape"

The Cotswolds, home to the Romans and Shakespeare is within comfortable reach of the city of London. It is England’s largest AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) and is characterized by stunning scenery and picturesque villages of mellow, honey-coloured stone.

The Cotswold Way is a gentle walk starting in the old ‘wool’ town of Chipping Campden and finishing in the World Heritage city of Bath. It is almost 100 miles (160km) long and provides spectacular far reaching views as we walk along the western edge of these low-lying hills.

This walk takes us through a mixture of parkland and snug villages; there are sheltered woodland valleys and cultivated pastures surrounded by dry-stone walls.
Early prosperity of the medieval wool industry is evident in the quality of the towns and villages with magnificent churches and grand manor houses. There numerous castles, abbeys, Roman villas, hill-forts and prehistoric barrows.

Our trail takes us through historical market towns and we explore one delightful village after another, each with its own particular charm.

The sleepy villages with thatched roof cottages have friendly inns that are our accommodation in the evenings.

This area is known as “The Heart of England” and not without reason. 
The walk finishes in the Georgian city of Bath, which is full of fine buildings, parks, riverside walks and of course the Roman Baths. It has been the ideal destination since Roman times and today still offers many and varied attractions.