From: Fairford
Started: 20260717
Finished: 20260729
Walking the Cotswold Way in both directions simultaneously is possible and it took me 12 days to do. it. I started in Chipping Campden and walked to Stanton and then back to Chipping Campden, and afterwards I drove to Winchcombe for the next morning and started walking to Stanton and then back to Winchcombe, and the next morning afer that, and still in Winchcombe, I walked to Cleeve Hill and back to Winchcombe ….. and so on like this to Dowdeswell, Birdlip, Painswick, Haresfield, Middleyard, Coaly Peak, Dursley, Wotton-under-Edge, Hawkesbury Upton, Tormarton, Cold Ashton, St. Martin’s Church, and finally to Bath Abbey. Doing it like this proved very useful because where the way-signs are difficult to follow one way they are certainly easier to follow the other way, and you get to know the route and enjoy it more by walking it a second time, and strangely too the route seems shorter than before. All my return journeys were completed in less time than the outward ones. I stayed in the places I parked my campervan which kept the cost of the walk down to an absolute minimum. Walking alongside Kelston Round Hill and seeing Bath slowly appear with every step was an incredible moment, and one I shall certainly never forget.