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travel directions | circular walks | long distance paths | old maps

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For travel directions to Winchcombe, visit Multimap

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Circular walks from Winchcombe: (will follow shortly)

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Long distance paths

Winchcombe sits on no less than six long-distance (and not so long distance) footpaths:

• The Cotswold Way
  Start: Bath Finish: Chipping Campden
  A 100 mile (160km) national trail (one of only 13 in England) passing through Cold Ashton, Tormarton, Wotton-under-Edge, Dursley, Painswick, Birdlip, Winchcombe and Broadway.
  
  Further information:
  www.cotswold-way.co.uk
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotswold_Way
  Telephone The Cotswold Way National Trail Office on 01453 827004/827013
   
• The Gloucestershire Way
  Start: Chepstow. Finish: Tewkesbury
  From Chepstow this 94 mile (151km) trail crosses the River Severn at Gloucester and climbs up into the Cotswolds at Crickley. Then it follows a route across the hills to Salperton, Stow-on-the-Wold and Winchcombe, then back to the River Severn at Tewkesbury.
  
  Further information: http://www.ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_path.php?menu_type=S&path_id=172
  http://www.countryside-matters.co.uk/glosway.html
   
• The Wychavon Way
  Start:  Holt Fleet, Worcestershire. Finish: Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. 
  This route likns the river Severn and the Cotswolds through attractive countryside in the Vale of Evesham with villages, hills and rivers.
  
  Further information: http://www.ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_path.php?path_name=Wychavon+Way and http://www.ramblers.org.uk/info/paths/name/w/wychavon.htm
  Or telephone Wychavon District Council on 01386 565373
   
• St. Kenelm's Way / Trail
  Start: Clent, Worcestershire. End: Winchcombe.
  Two distinct routes associated with the legend of the boy prince Kenelm, grandson of King Offa, who died in the Clent Hills and was buried at Winchcombe. The Way has more canal towpaths while the Trail takes an old Saxon route over Bredon Hill. The trail is marginally longer and has more ascent.
  
  Further information: http://www.ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_path.php?path_id=8222 and http://www.countryside-matters.co.uk/stkenelm.html
   

 

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Here's an old map of Winchcombe. Click on it to see a full-size version.

Spot the tannery, the silk mill, the workhouse, the gas works? You can get similar old maps for other locations at Old Maps

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