Table of Contents

CONTENTS Map key Overview map and profile Route summary tables Trek planner Introduction The Cotswold Way Planning your trip Choosing an itinerary Which way to walk? When to go? Self-guided or guided? Getting there and getting around First nights and last nights Accommodation Facilities en route Baggage transfer service What to take The Cotswold Way Hall of Fame Planning day by day Using this guide Additional mapping Waymarking Health, safety and emergencies Mobile phones, wi-fi and the internet The Country Code All about the Cotswolds Geology Plants and wildlife Man in the landscape Southbound: Chipping Campden to Bath Introduction Stage 1 Chipping Campden to Stanton Stage 2 Stanton to Winchcombe Stage 3 Winchcombe to Cleeve Hill Stage 4 Cleeve Hill to Dowdeswell (A40) Stage 5 Dowdeswell (A40) to Birdlip Stage 6 Birdlip to Painswick Stage 7 Painswick to Middleyard (King's Stanley) Stage 8 Middleyard (King's Stanley) to Dursley Stage 9 Dursley to Wotton-under-Edge Stage 10 Wotton-under-Edge to Hawkesbury Upton Stage 11 Hawkesbury Upton to Tormarton Stage 12 Tormarton to Cold Ashton Stage 13 Cold Ashton to Bath Northbound: Bath to Chipping Campden Introduction Stage 1 Bath to Cold Ashton Stage 2 Cold Ashton to Tormarton Stage 3 Tormarton to Hawkesbury Upton Stage 4 Hawkesbury Upton to Wotton-under-Edge Stage 5 Wotton-under-Edge to Dursley Stage 6 Dursley to Middleyard (King's Stanley) 2 Stage 7 Middleyard (King's Stanley) to Painswick Stage 8 Painswick to Birdlip Stage 9 Birdlip to Dowdeswell (A40) Stage 10 Dowdeswell (A40) to Cleeve Hill Stage 11 Cleeve Hill to Winchcombe Stage 12 Winchcombe to Stanton Stage 13 Stanton to Chipping Campden Appendix A Useful contacts Appendix B Accommodation along the route Appendix C Further reading

About the Author

Jonathan and Lesley Williams have been directors of Cicerone for 25 years, now partly retired with the next generation of directors firmly established, they now enjoy increased time exploring and researching as authors. Based on the edge of the Lake District, they enjoy spending days in the hills and months in the mountains and have written or updated several Cicerone guidebooks for Switzerland and France, as well as guidebooks for areas of the UK.
Although this is entirely a new guidebook, it owes much to the foundations of previous editions of the Cicerone guide to the Cotswold Way written by Kev Reynolds.
Kev Reynolds was a prolific author of guidebooks for Cicerone Press. Although most of his guides were devoted to mountain regions such as the Alps, Pyrenees and Himalaya, he considered the gentler landscapes of the English countryside to be no second best. His passion for mountains in particular and the countryside in general remained undiminished after a lifetime’s activity, until his death in 2021.