Natural landmarks · South West England
Cotswold Way
102-mile National Trail along the Cotswold escarpment from Chipping Campden to Bath.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
The Cotswold Way is the 102-mile National Trail along the Cotswold escarpment from Chipping Campden to Bath — opened 2007, running south through honey-stone villages, AONB landscape, with sweeping views west across the Severn Vale. Typically walked over 7-10 days.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Cotswold Way is a 102-mile (164 km) long-distance footpath, running along the Cotswold Edge escarpment of the Cotswold Hills in England. It was officially inaugurated as a National Trail on 24 May 2007 and several new rights of way have been created.
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Background
History
The Cotswold Way route was first suggested some 50 years ago by Gloucestershire-area Ramblers, of which Tony Drake of Cheltenham area and the Cyril Trenfield of the South Gloucestershire area were principals. Although recognised as a suitable route for a National Trail in due course, the path was initially sponsored by Gloucestershire County Council, who had no powers of footpath creation, and so used only existing rights of way. An early guide to the Way, in the hand-drawn pictorial style of Alfred Wainwright, was produced by another Cheltenham-area rambler, Mark Richards, in 1973. The foreword from Tony Drake says:<mapframe latitude="51.733833" longitude="-2.101135" zoom="8" width="394"…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.8333, -2.2167
- Address
- Central England
- Official site
- www.ramblers.org.uk
Sources
- manual: cotswold-way (manual)
- wikipedia: Cotswold Way (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Cotswold Way?
- Cotswold Way is in South West England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 51.8333°, -2.2167°.
- When was Cotswold Way built?
- Cotswold Way dates to the Modern era. The exact year of origin is not recorded in our open-data sources.