Walking In The Cotswolds

The Gloucestershire Way

The Gloucestershire Way, "Forest and Vale and High Blue Hill", taken from "A song of Gloucestershire" by F.W. Harvey is a 100 mile way marked route through the county including the Forest of Dean, Severn Vale and the Cotswolds.

The path beginning at Chepstow and passing through Tewkesbury, Gloucester and the Cotswold towns of Winchcombe and Stow-on-the-Wold and along its length will link up with the Offa's Dyke Path, The Severn Way, The Cotswold Way, The Oxfordshire Way,  the Heart of England Way and the Worcestershire Way.

Guide books to the route are available at bookshops.

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Be sure to keep to the correct rights of way

Follow the coloured arrows that will guide you along the correct route. They can be found on gateposts, trees and stiles, they can be metal, plastic or painted, but always look around you to find them as the signs may be damaged or faded. All public footpaths on explorer maps are marked with a green dashed line and national trails and long distance paths are in green with diamond shapes linking the dashes.