Chipping Campden to Blockley

Step by step

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   Step 1: Campden to Broad Campden

   From outside the Noel Arms, walk through the archway onto George Lane and follow it, then the narrow road and path straight on, up to the main road. Turn left into the field and immediately right along the hedge. At the end of the hedge, carry straight on up the hill and take the right fork to Broad Campden. Go through the gate onto a path that crosses a private drive to a second gate and a lane. Follow the lane past the Quaker Meeting Room on your left to the small church, then turn right along the road to the Bakers Arms.

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   Step 2: The Monarch's Way to Norcombe Wood

   Opposite the Bakers Arms, follow the signed Monarch's Way up the track to a field gate marked Northwick Estate. Go through, past a waymarker post to the top of the hill, through another field gate, and bear right onto a track up to the main road. Turn left; this road can be especially busy, so take care. After about 200m turn left through a gap in the wall by a waymarker, right through a gap in a low wall, then immediately left. Go down the left-hand edge of the field, past a small wood on your left, to another small wood. Turn right at the waymarker and after about 100m turn left into a field with the hedge on your right. Follow the field edge down to a track and in about 200m reach a crossroads in Norcombe Wood.

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   Step 3: Shales Coppice and Day's Lane into Blockley

   Carry straight on out of the wood along the track. Cross the road, go through the field gate and follow the bridleway along the left-hand edge of the field. At the waymarker, turn left down the right-hand edge of the next two fields; before the end of the second, the path turns right through a gap in the wall onto a house drive. Turn left along the drive and, where it turns sharply left, go straight on across the field into Shales Coppice. Bear left through the coppice, crossing another path, and go down the middle of the next field to a bridleway. Bear slightly right and follow the track down Day's Lane into Blockley. At the bottom, turn left along the High Street for about three quarters of a mile (1.2km), past the shop and café and the green, into Park Road.

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   Step 4: Blockley to Campden Hill Farm

   Opposite the last cottage on the right, turn left over a stile by a field gate and then right over a stile. Cross the field diagonally left for about 200m to a point left of three large trees, then walk down to the gate near the bottom right-hand corner; the path is indistinct here. Climb the next field to the gate in its top right-hand corner, not the earlier gate onto the road. Turn right over a stile into the trees and immediately left. Out of the copse, after about 200m, follow the left-hand edge of an open field for 200m to a track, go straight on to a junction and bear slightly right on the track past a disused quarry on your left. Go downhill, bearing left towards Campden Hill Farm, and just before the buildings turn right down some steps and through a gate onto a bridleway beside the buildings, up to a gate. If the ground is wet, go through this gate and up the hedge line to the Monarch's Way, and retrace your steps to Broad Campden.

   • Stiles
   • Muddy in winter
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   Step 5: Back to Broad Campden and Campden

   Turn right before the gate and follow the path through the trees, through a kissing gate and past an enclosure with iron railings. Beyond it, bear half right downhill to the bottom left-hand corner of the field, into trees and a waymarker. Cross the field to a wooded area with two stiles, then go straight across the next field towards the left-hand corner of the fenced area and follow the right-hand edge of the field to a stone wall. Follow the wall, turn right at its end and go through a gate with the Bakers Arms ahead of you. Retrace the outward route to Chipping Campden.

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