Chipping Campden: A perfect base for a Walking Holiday

High Street, Chipping Campden

Chipping Campden, the historic town in the North Cotswolds, is famous for it's beautiful High Street, Medieval Wool Church and links with the Arts and Crafts Movement.

St James' Church, Chipping Campden

 From here you can walk south along the Cotswold Edge, following the Cotswold Way as far as Bath (up to 110 miles), or east to Moreton-in-Marsh or Stow-on-the-Wold.

Cotswold cottage and splendid garden

Our guided and self-guided walking holidays in the Cotswolds range from 1 to 12 days, with distances 5 to 20 miles per day (depending on your preference), accommodation in B&Bs to luxury hotels, maps, details of route and places of interest, luggage transfer where required and support in the unlikely event of an emergency.

Old orchard above the town

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Hawthorns along Cotswold Edge heavy with May Blossom 

                    Chipping Campden the perfect base for a Walking Holiday in the Cotswolds

Happy Walking in 2013.
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Anne
walkthelandscape.co.uk

Glorious spring sunshine along the Thames Path

The Thames Path is an 184-miles National Trail, that follows the river for the whole length, from the source in the Cotswolds to the Thames Barrier, east of Greenwich.  The river meanders it's way through rich farmland and historic towns, such as Oxford and Windsor, before passing through the heart of the city of London, then onward to the estuary in the North Sea.

The walking is easy (the terrain is flat and the trail well maintained), the countryside picturesque and the pubs and inns are inviting - a good way to spend a relaxing break.

Here are a few photos of the trail in the fresh spring sunshine.

Passing through Ewen in the Cotswolds

The Rose Revived, Newbridge, near Oxford 

 Hazy sunshine near Windsor, west of London

The City Skyline from Wapping, East London 

Canary Wharf, East London

We organise walking holidays along the Thames Path.

We source good quality accommodation, arrange luggage transfer, provide walking guides and maps, and support in case of emergency.

Contact us for more information.

Best

Anne

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The Ridgeway National Trail - east from Streatley

The Ridgeway is a National Walking Trail which follows the route of what is probably the oldest road in England.  Dating from Prehistoric times it runs for 87 miles (140 km) along chalk downs in central southern England, between  Ivinghoe Beacon, near Tring, Hertfordshire to Overton Hill, near Marlborough, Wiltshire. 

These photos, taken in February, show the eastern half of the route from Streatley in the Thames valley to the eastern end at Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire.

You can join us to walk this trail from 22nd April to 1st May, 2012. Check out this link to the Ridgeway Tour to find out more .  

 Public house at Goring on Thames

 Walkers on the Thames Path

 The view west to Abingdon Power Station

 A well signed trail

 Lunch

 Snowdrops in St Botolph's churchyard, Swincombe

Oaks in the grounds around Chequers, the Prime Minister's country residence 

Beechwoods on the Chilterns 

Beacon Hill from Combe Hill, above Wendover 

Birches by the trail when dropping down to Wendover 

Ivinghoe Beacon at the eastern end of the Ridgeway 

The trig point at Ivinghoe Beacon, the end of the Ridgeway

You can join us to walk this trail from 22nd April to 1st May, 2012. Check out this link to the Ridgeway Tour to find out more .  

Best

Anne

walkthelandscape.co.uk

Walking in Wiltshire: Avebury Stone Circle

Avebury Stone Circle lies in the Kennet Valley, Wiltshire, at the south-west end of the Ridgeway, one of England's National Walking Trails.

Avebury is at the centre of one of the greatest surviving concentrations of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in Western Europe. It is truly a very special and, for many, a mystical and sacred place.

The Outer Ring of the Stone Circle

The Cove Stones

The Ancient and the Medieval

Sweet music at the Wishing Trees

Wishing Tree shelter

with the bank and ditch of the henge in the background

Stone hugging at West Kennet Avenue

A sarsen stone on West Kennet Avenue

Lichens at home on the stones

*** COMING SOON ***

The RIDGEWAY NATIONAL TRAIL

and STONE CIRCLES (Stonehenge and Avebury)

Self-guided and Guided Walking Tours

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Anne

Walk the Landscape

Walking in Wiltshire: Stonehenge

Awesome Stonehenge

The Cursus Barrows

Gnarled Beech

The New King barrows

Approaching Stonehenge from the Avenue

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Anne

Walk the Landscape

In and around the Cotswold Way

The Wolds

Red Deer at Broadway Tower

Snowshill

A bijou retreat, Snowshill

Shenborough buildings

Buckland from the footpath

The Vale of Evesham

The Cotswold Way offers ambles through unspoilt villages with great views across the Vale of Evesham to the Marlbough Hills and the Welsh Mountains.

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The Oxfordshire Way in reverse! Day 4

Join us along the 68 miles of the Oxfordshire Way from Saturday 15th to Friday 21st October.

Or self-guide

and let us arrange your holiday allowing you time to relax, rewind and enjoy.

Day 4: Charlbury to Bourton-on-the-Water

The Evenlode valley with oilseed rape starting to flower

New born lambs

17th century barn with dovecote in gable and granary standing on straddle stones,

Ascott-under-Wychwood

St Lawrence, Wick Rissington,

where Gustav Holst was the resident organist at age 17.

Bourton-on-the-Water, the 'Venice of the Cotswolds' and the end of the journey

Regards

The Oxfordshire Way in reverse! Day 3

Join us along the 68 miles of the Oxfordshire Way from Saturday 15th to Friday 21st October.

Or self-guide

and let us arrange your holiday allowing you time to relax, rewind and enjoy.

Day 3: Islip to Charlbury

Cowslips (Primula veris)

Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) the first blossom in the hedgerows

Traversing the rape field

Agricultural operations

Crossing the Oxford Canal

Very best regards