Cotswold Way

This trail winds for 102 miles along the western escarpment of Britain's Cotswold hills, from the perfect market town of Chipping Campden to fabulous Roman and Georgian Bath in the south.

En route you will wallow in everything that the Cotswolds are famous for: atop, green rolling hills, drystone walls, fine stands of trees and wide views; deep, steep valleys containing ludicrously perfect villages nestled around an ancient church; grassland and the sheep that were the root of the hill-land's prosperity for much of the way; sleepy golden farmsteads; marvelous market towns, castles, great houses and monastic and even Roman ruins; prehistoric hill forts and burial mounds; and, much of the way, the beauty of the curling escarpment, with its views across the Severn valley to the Malvern Hills and, afar, the Black Mountains.

Stay in market town hotels, village pubs or farmhouse B&Bs along the way.

While a walk along the whole route would be hugely rewarding, any section would make a wondrous day walk and you can usually create a circular walk to get you back to your start point. The Cotswold Trail was promoted to one of Britain's National Trails in 2007.

See our Cotswolds page for further ideas, information and photos.