Kingscote, Ozleworth and Lasborough

The Kingscote, Ozleworth and Lasborough walk is a 7.5-mile (11.9km) circular walk from the Hunters Hall Inn at Kingscote, in the wooded valleys below the Cotswold edge, by Ozleworth's six-sided church tower and along Ozleworth Bottom. It is moderate, climbing about 270m, and takes three to three and a half hours, with the inn at the end.

It lies between Nailsworth and Wotton-under-Edge and visits four hamlets, two old churches, a Georgian country house and a castle mound. Almost all of it is on numbered public footpaths and bridleways, and most of the rest on quiet lanes.

Ozleworth and its church

The walk's high point, in interest if not in height, is the church of St Nicholas at Ozleworth, which stands beside the route in the parkland of Ozleworth Park. It is listed Grade II* and has a central six-sided tower, which its listing dates with the church's foundation to probably the middle of the twelfth century. The chancel was extended in the fourteenth century, and the nave lengthened and the church restored in 1873. The listing records it as a redundant church, vested in what was then the Redundant Churches Fund, and it is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, which says it is open daily from 10am to 4pm. It stands on a private estate, and the Trust asks visitors to keep to the church and churchyard. There are no toilets. Ozleworth lies inside the Cotswolds National Landscape.

Ozleworth Bottom

South of Ozleworth the route turns east along the valley floor, following Ozleworth Brook through the woods, past fishing ponds, for about a mile. Walkers found the second half overgrown in summer, with long grass and nettles, and one reviewer in July 2026 came home with stings. In spring walkers report pheasants, sheep and plenty of lambs. One group at the end of March 2026 timed it for the lambing.

Lasborough and Newington Bagpath

The climb out of the valley leads north on a long field path past Lasborough Park, a small country house built in 1794 by James Wyatt for Edmund Estcourt, in a Tudor Gothic style with four square corner towers and battlements. Its listing says the Holford family may have lived here while they were building Westonbirt House, near what is now the National Arboretum, and that Wyatt's original plans hang in its library.

At Newington Bagpath the path passes a castle mound, a motte beside the lane, and the little church of St Bartholomew. Its listing gives it a Norman foundation and some fifteenth-century work, with a chancel rebuilt by the architect Teulon in 1858, and records it as unused and boarded up when it was surveyed in 1986.

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What walkers report

About half the route is on tracks and paths with no recorded surface, and the rest is split between lanes, natural paths and grass. Reviewers call it varied, with moderate climbs and a few steep pitches, and muddy after rain. Navigation is easy, one walker said, but the paths are narrow in places. Sheep and lambs graze many of the fields, and several reviewers kept dogs on a lead the whole way round. It is not a walk for a dog that likes to run free. Our guide to the Cotswolds with a dog has more on walking among sheep.

The Hunters Hall Inn

The walk starts and ends at the Hunters Hall Inn, and walkers recommend it at the end. Its listing describes an inn with a seventeenth-century core, enlarged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with big chamfered beams and a timber bressumer fireplace inside. The inn’s own site gives 13 rooms in a converted stable block, including one accessible ground-floor room, with check-in from 2pm to 10pm and check-out by 11am; dog-friendly rooms must be booked in advance, and Greene King Inns adds £10 a night to a room booking with a dog. Its car park is at the rear, and the Cotswolds National Landscape’s 2024 leaflet for a shorter walk from here says the inn has given walkers permission to park there, asking them to use the inn before or after the walk.

Nailsworth, about 3 miles north-east, has more places to stay: see our page on places to stay in Nailsworth.

More walks nearby

West of Ozleworth the escarpment drops to Wotton-under-Edge, where the Wotton-under-Edge and Cotswold Way circular has a detour to Newark Park, and the longer loop to the Tyndale Monument climbs Coombe Hill. Our guide to the Cotswold Edge covers the escarpment from end to end, and Tetbury is about 5 miles east.