Walking Britain Hailes, Beckbury & Sudeley from Winchcombe
Introduction to Walk 3064
Region - Cotswolds
County/Area - Gloucestershire
Author - Lou Johnson
Length - 10.0 miles / 16.3 km
Ascent - 1125 feet / 341 metres
Time - 6 hours 10 minutes
Grade - moderate
The Cotswold village of Winchcombe offers an attractive start to this Gloucestershire walk. The route continues to Hailes Abbey, includes a section on the hills before returning pat Sudeley Castle. A GPS File is available for download (see walk description).
Please maintain social distancing - keep at least 2 metres away from other walkers.
Maps | |||
| Ordnance Survey Explorer OL45 | Sheet Map | 1:25k | BUY |
| Anquet OS Explorer OL45 | Digital Map | 1:25k | BUY |
| Ordnance Survey Landranger 150 | Sheet Map | 1:50k | BUY |
| Anquet OS Landranger 150 | Digital Map | 1:50k | BUY |
| Ordnance Survey Landranger 163 | Sheet Map | 1:50k | BUY |
| Anquet OS Landranger 163 | Digital Map | 1:50k | BUY |
It is recommended you take a map. The preferred scale is 1:25k. | |||
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Stanway & Snowshill from Stanton
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Stanton & Laverton from Broadway
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The Broadway Tower from Broadway
Grade - easy/mod
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Bredon Hill circular from Elmley Castle
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Bredon Hill from Elmley Castle
Grade - easy/mod
Length - 5.5 miles / 8.9 km
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Turkdean & Notgrove from Cold Aston
Grade - easy/mod
Length - 6.5 miles / 10.6 km
8.8 miles / 14.0 km away
River Severn & Apperley from Tewkesbury
Grade - easy/mod
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Broadway & Chipping Campden from Dover's Hill
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Naunton & the Slaughters from Bourton-on-the-Water
Grade - moderate
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Note : The distances quoted to other walks in the vicinity are measured in a straight line. The distance by road may be further.
Recommended Books & eBooks
The Cotswold Way Map Booklet
Map of the 102 mile (163km) Cotswold Way National Trail, between Chipping Camden and Bath. This booklet is included with the Cicerone guidebook to the trail, and shows the full route on OS 1:25,000 maps. The trail typically takes two weeks to walk, and is suitable for walkers at all levels of experience.
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Walking in the Cotswolds
Guidebook describing 30 circular walks in the Cotswolds AONB of southern England. The graded routes are 4-12 miles long, visiting hill forts, long barrows and stone circles, picturesque villages and parts of the Cotswold Way National Trail as circular walks. Includes information about history, geology and wildlife encountered along the routes.
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Navigation
This pocket handbook to navigation will help you master the necessary map and compass skills for mountain walking. Chapters include map scales, symbols and contours, grid references, map reading, bearings, route planning and night and bad-weather navigation, as well as navigating with a GPS.
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