The Cotswold Way: Two-way National Trail Description(British Long-distance Trails S.)

This is the second edition of this guide to the 102 mile route (recently designated a National Trail) between Chipping Campden and Bath. The route meanders through the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, one of the best-loved regions of lowland Britain. The path follows the Cotwolds down their western edge with dramatic and far-reaching views across the Severn Vale towards the Welsh hills. Beginning in handsome Chipping Campden, not only does the route explore the sheep-grazed escarpment, it plunges down the scarp slope on numerous occasions to visit the honey-coloured villages and old market towns for which the district is justly famed, and ends in the World Heritage City of Bath. This new edition takes account of improvements made to the route for its launch as a National Trail, and is the perfect companion to a memorable long walk.

Table of Contents:
Introduction The Cotswold Way How to get there Accommodation Recommended maps Using the Guide The Cotswolds The Country Code Information at a glance Southbound Route: Chipping Campden to Bath Introduction Section 1 Chipping Campden to Stanton Section 2 Stanton to Winchcombe Section 3 Winchcombe to Cleeve Hill Section 4 Cleeve Hill to Dowdeswell (A40) Section 5 Dowdeswell (A40) to Birdlip Section 6 Birdlip to Painswick Section 7 Painswick to Middleyard (King's Stanley) Section 8 Middleyard (King's Stanley) to Dursley Section 9 Dursley to Wotton-under-Edge Section 10 Wotton-under-Edge to Hawkesbury Upton Section 11 Hawkesbury Upton to Tormarton Section 12 Tormarton to Cold Ashton Section 13 Cold Ashton to Bath Northbound Route: Bath to Chipping Campden Introduction Section 1 Bath to Cold Ashton Section 2 Cold Ashton to Tormarton Section 3 Tormarton to Hawkesbury Upton Section 4 Hawkesbury Upton to Wotton-under-Edge Section 5 Wotton-under-Edge to Dursley Section 6 Dursley to Middleyard (King's Stanley) Section 7 Middleyard (King's Stanley) to Painswick Section 8 Painswick to Birdlip Section 9 Birdlip to Dowdeswell (A40) Section 10 Dowdeswell (A40) to Cleeve Hill Section 11 Cleeve Hill to Winchcombe Section 12 Winchcombe to Stanton Section 13 Stanton to Chipping Campden Appendices Appendix A: Useful addresses Appendix B: Public transport information Appendix C: Recommended further reading Appendix D: Section by section southwards Appendix E: Section by section northwards

About the Author :
A lifelong passion for the countryside in general, and mountains in particular, drives Kev's desire to share his sense of wonder and delight in the natural world through his writing, guiding, photography and lecturing. Spending several months each year among various high mountain regions researching guidebooks, makes him The Man with the World's Best Job; a title he aims to keep by remaining active for another 100 years at least. Kev has enjoyed a fruitful partnership with Cicerone since the 1970s, producing walking and trekking guides to the Pyrenees, Alps and Himalaya, as well as walking guides for Kent, Sussex and the Cotswolds and he has several more books in the pipeline. A frequent contributor to outdoor magazines, he also writes and illustrates brochures for national tourist authorities and travel companies. When not away in the mountains, Kev lives with his wife in a small cottage among what he calls 'the Kentish Alps' with unrestricted walking country on the doorstep. But he also travels throughout Britain during the winter months to share his love of the places he writes about through a series of lectures. Check him out on www.kevreynolds.co.uk