Worth watching out for.
- John Cleare
Cotswold Way: Chipping Campden to Bath
UPDATES
Updated information
Thank you to Ian Ludford, David Hofman, of Cotswold Walking Holidays, Gerry & Caroline Hoare, Andrew Guppy, Mrs Ann Flavell-Wood, Michael Womack who wrote in with the following updates.
The information has not yet been checked by Trailblazer but it will be for the next edition.
Page 22 Cotswold Walking Holidays
Website address is: www.cotswoldwalks.com
Page 30 Lower Kilcott to Pennsylvania
The mileage for the day is actually about 15 miles and not 10 as given in the guide.
Page 118 Birdlip
Swanbrook Transport's 852 bus operates between Cirencester and Gloucester, stopping here opposite the (Royal George) Hotel.
There is indeed a bus stop opposite the hotel, but the bus does not stop there! Coming from the hotel, you should cross the road but turn left towards a road junction. Continue along the same pavement till it leaves the main road and becomes a minor road, and you will see, approx 100 metres along, another bus stop where the bus will stop. The bus comes along the minor road and then turns right into the main road, thus bypassing the hotel.
Page 160 Cold Ashton
The Folly Farm tea shop, is an excellent tea shop, which has recently opened at Cold Ashton on the A420, just passed the White Hart grid ref:ST 753731. They make excellent sandwiches and homemade quiches and cakes amongst other things. As far as I am aware, they close around 5 in the afternoon, but on the day of my visit, they stayed open longer, at the request of the owner of the Old Swan Cottage Guest house, because the White Hart was closed on the evening of my stay.
GPS Waypoints
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p43. National Transport. We travelled to Chipping Camden by train, using the Chiltern Line to Stratford upon Avon - 2 hours from London Marylebone, very picturesque going through the Chilterns. Then taxi £25 to Chipping Camden, or there are buses.
p160. Cold Ashton. The White Hart has closed. The local B & B's have secured an arrangement with Sarah Parsons @ Follys End Farm - tel 01225891849: winetoyou@live.co.uk, whereby she will provide evening meals to walkers, and good value they are too!
June 2011
p 113, Map 13, Lineover Woods. The Way will change this summer through Lineover Woods and take the top path beside the A436.
July 2011
Cheltenham, Bed and Breakfast at Orchard Cottage, 25 Wood Stanway, Cheltenham, Glos GL54 5PG the telephone number in the book is incorrect. The correct number is: 01386 584 752 (not 791).
3 October 2011 – Update from Tricia and Bob Hayne, the authors
page 132. The Cotswold Way alternative route via the canal has been diverted while work is ongoing on the canal (we think along a cycle route parallel to the Ebley bypass), and all the original signage has been removed. Everyone we met was taking the original route via Kings Stanley.
There is, though, a new signboard up along the canal showing the route of the 'new' alternative route - which as far as I can see is almost exactly the same as the old one. We walked it as it used to be and it's still perfectly viable - but as the crucial turning after the bridge now looks as though it goes along a private drive, it's really difficult to follow without any on the ground signs. It is, however, no longer blocked - and I suspect will reopen for next spring, though I will of course check it all with the CW authorities.
The canal isn't particularly pretty, but it's not all bad news. The water's clean, with ducks and moorhens in evidence, and there are wild flowers growing along the banks.
