10-Day Cotswolds Way Itinerary 🥾⛰️🌳
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The Cotswolds Way runs for just over 100 miles, from Chipping Campden all the way down to the city of Bath.
This 10-day itinerary breaks the trail into gentle daily stretches so you can enjoy every mile.
📸 Photos & Info are located further down. Keep scrolling to see all these places. ⬇️
Summary of this Itinerary for the Cotswolds Way
🗓️ Day 1: Chipping Campden to Stanton (11 miles)
📍 Chipping Campden
📍 Dover’s Hill
📍 Broadway Tower 🗼
📍 Broadway Village
📍 Snowshill (diversion)
📍 Stanton
🗓️ Day 2: Stanton to Winchcombe (8 miles)
📍 Stanway
📍 Gloucestershire–Warwickshire Steam Railway 🚂
📍 Hailes Abbey ⛪
📍 Winchcombe
📍 Sudeley Castle 🏰
🗓️ Day 3: Winchcombe to Dowdeswell (12 miles)
📍 Belas Knap
📍 Cleeve Hill
📍 Prestbury Hill Nature Reserve
📍 Dowdeswell
🗓️ Day 4: Dowdeswell to Birdlip (11 miles)
📍 Lineover Woods
📍 Leckhampton Hill
📍 Crickley Hill Country Park
📍 Birdlip
🗓️ Day 5: Birdlip to Painswick (9 miles)
📍 Buckholt Wood
📍 Coopers Hill
📍 Painswick Beacon
📍 Painswick
🗓️ Day 6: Painswick to Uley (12 miles)
📍 Haresfield Beacon
📍 Stroudwater Navigation
📍 King’s Stanley
📍 Coaley Peak
📍 Uley
🗓️ Day 7: Uley to Wotton-under-Edge (9 miles)
📍 Dursley
📍 Stinchcombe Hill
📍 North Nibley
📍 Wotton-under-Edge
🗓️ Day 8: Wotton-under-Edge to Old Sodbury (10 miles)
📍 Wortley
📍 Alderley
📍 Lower Kilcott
📍 Hawkesbury Upton
📍 Horton
📍 Little Sodbury
📍 Old Sodbury
🗓️ Day 9: Old Sodbury to Cold Ashton (9 miles)
📍 Tormarton
📍 Dyrham
📍 Dyrham Park (little detour – National Trust property)
📍 Pennsylvania
📍 Cold Ashton
🗓️ Day 10: Cold Ashton to Bath (10 miles)
📍 Lansdown Hill
📍 Weston
📍 Bath ♨️
Total Distance: 🥾 Approx. 102 miles
Recommended Time: ⌛ 10 days
Ideal for keen walkers looking to complete the Cotswolds Way end to end, at a steady and enjoyable pace.
