Cotswold Walk
Walk Two
Police
Station
This is number two in a series of walks
from the Cotswolds Conservation Board
designed to allow people to make their
way to their starting point using public
transport.
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Nether Swell
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3 Cross the bridge and walk round the
farm buildings. Turn right/signed Lower
Slaughter. Turn left through the metal
kissing gate to a small bridge and follow the
path across four fields. Cross a stream and
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2 Follow the track to a field. Cross the field
into woodland and continue down through
Nether Swell Manor Farm and the paddock
beyond, to reach Hyde Mill.
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for Stow Square.
1 Starting from St Edward’s Hall leave
Stow Square following Church Street, walk
past the church, to reach Sheep Street.
Cross at the traffic lights and walk along
Wragg’s Row to cross Back Walls into the
burial ground. Leave the cemetery by the
second gate on your right and walk down
South Hill. When you are about 150 metres
past Bretton House cross the Fosse Way
to a track with a footpath sign next to
Quarwood Cottage.
Quarries
(disused)
Hyde
Mill
Bourton High Street and ask
OS Ref:
Maugersbury
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Allow 2-3 hrs
Take the Fosse Link 855 from
A436
Lower
Swell
Distance: 6.5 km/4 miles
Buses:
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Stow-on-the-Wold
This is an easy walk downhill from Stow-onthe-Wold to Bourton-on-the-Water across
meadows and mills to Lower Slaughter,
where the old mill has recently been
restored and now houses a tea shop, small
store and a museum. Tel: 01451 820052.
Time:
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Meadows and Mills
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Playing
Fields
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Bourton-onthe-Water
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Birdland
turn right through the gate. Cross the field
to the gate in the far left corner.
4 Turn half left to follow the sign to Lower
Slaughter across the next three fields. Just
before the end of the third field turn right
through a farm gate then turn left to follow
the hedge line, past the cricket ground then
turn right to join the road. Turn left keeping
the church wall on left, follow it round to
the churchyard.
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5 Cross the road and turn left to follow the
River Eye on the path around to the right.
Continue along to a metal gate leading to
a tarmac footpath across two fields to
The Coach and Horses on the Fosse Way.
6 Cross the Fosse and turn right to a
junction, turn left down Station Road
towards Bourton. About 50 metres past
Meadow Way on your left, cross the road
and take the path alongside the playing
fields. Pass the church on your left to reach
Bourton High Street.
For more public transport information pick up a copy of Explore the Cotswolds by Public Transport and accompanying timetable booklets,
available at Tourist Information Centres and from www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk.
Alternatively contact the Cotswolds Conservation Board on 01451 862000